Comments on: On The Beautiful, The Sublime, The Pretty, and the Ugly, Part 1 (maybe) https://www.faithonview.com/beautiful-sublime-pretty-ugly-part-1-maybe/ Diverse Christian News and Commentary Mon, 26 Feb 2024 17:51:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: rodalena https://www.faithonview.com/beautiful-sublime-pretty-ugly-part-1-maybe/#comments/4602 https://www.faithonview.com/?p=2199#comment-4602 In the novel _Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close_, the observant main character says, “Nothing beautiful is true.” I disagree, though, and your distinction between “pretty” and “beautiful” illustrate why: things that are beautiful illustrate hard truths, and there is often a broken beauty in them, a beauty born of scars, like a fallen oak after a storm or a ballerina’s feet, or the face of an old miner. There is a beauty in an Egon Schiele painting that simply does not exist in a Kinkaid.

The sublime, for me, is much more…infinite. Grand, even, although that word does not describe what I mean accurately.

Thought-provoking post. I enjoyed reading it.

]]> By: Dan Oberg https://www.faithonview.com/beautiful-sublime-pretty-ugly-part-1-maybe/#comments/4597 https://www.faithonview.com/?p=2199#comment-4597 What is so difficult in defining terms is that language is ever-changing within its cultural context. That being said, from my cultural context, I think that “pretty” is within the eye of the beholder but beauty is deemed by God as the Beholder. Ugly is its opposite; that which is absent of its context given by God. Sublime is the stark contrast between the two. Just my thoughts.

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