This lecture was very interesting and it covered a lot of very helpful information that I feel like I will carry with me in almost all aspects of my life. The concepts of Wabi, Sabi, and Yugen were interesting to learn about and I really love these ideas behind the subject of beauty. I am very excited to see how I might incorporate them in my future artwork as well as my life in general. What I found to be the most interesting concept of the three was the idea of Sabi. I like the idea of a lonely beauty, characterized by melancholy. The thought that there is beauty in fleeting emotions and impermanent ideas is something I totally understand and I think it would be interesting to incorporate this into art somehow. Another part of the lecture that I really enjoyed learning about was the book "In Praise of Shadows" by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki. I have read a few pages of the book since hearing about it and I really enjoyed it. The concepts of beauty being found in shadows, literally and figuratively is something that I think would be interesting to explore artistically. I would love to find out more about the Japanese aesthetic and continue to read the book because I think that the ideas presented in the lecture are something I can both relate to and want to further understand.
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AuthorHello! I am Isabel Martin and I am an art student at Maggie L. Walker Governor School. Archives
May 2021
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