The Invisible Shrinking Man

beauty

I watched a tv programme presented by Roger Scruton about beauty as opposed to ugliness in art .

He was making the point that most modern 'artists' : Those who would give themselves that title , seem to think it their duty to create 'artistic' representations of all that is ugly , sordid and undesirable in our world .

But there's beauty and virtue around us too . And the city of Florence , which gave birth to the beauty of Renaissance art , has an extremely dark , bloody and sordid history .

And yet Professor Scruton kept boringly showing us the same ugly examples of pisstaking modern so-called-art again and again , and then ventured into praising the noble notion of 'Platonic' love , which demonises lust , then meandered into philosophising about our attitudes to death .

Though he conveyed good points about there sometimes being a beauty in the faces of old and wise people , as painted by Rembrandt , and that the young don't have a monopoly on beauty 

I had a beautiful face when I was about 12 - 13 , then I began to be afflicted with facial acne , which I was cruelly taunted about by a couple of girls in my class at school , then I became awkwardly self-conscious . Also I was quite significantly bullied at school - first at my local 'junior school' , and then at our local , private , Rudolf Steiner School , which my late father paid for me to attend , and , officially , there has never been any bullying at any Steiner school .