A subtle sense of beauty. Why do some people have a "sense of beauty" and what is the evolutionary sense of this? And also we will definitely conduct a meditative and artistic practice that will help you ...

A creator lives in every child! Develop and maintain a sense of beauty in your baby. Pay special attention creative activity your crumbs. Paint with a brush and fingers, make appliques, sculpt from dough, dance , Listen to the music, sing nursery rhymes and lullabies for the night, read poems and favorite fairy tales.

LITTLE AESTHETES

I wonder when the feeling of beauty arises in children? A two or three year old baby is unlikely to admire the masterpieces of painting in the Hermitage with admiration. Aesthetic feeling in a person is not born with him, it is not instinctive. A sense of beauty is nurtured and nurtured by the environment in which the baby grows up. You need to start, as always, from an early age.

JUST LOOK. You do not have to be an art critic, a writer, inspired by a collector of butterflies or orders to "convey" and "instill" something in your baby. When you go out into the street, the city opens up in front of you. What is it? Endlessly dull urban landscape, garbage and dust or architectural structures noteworthy, bridges and stairs, park benches, ornate shop windows? It all depends on your focus of attention. Teach your baby to choose the right focus: first of all, see the beautiful, not the ugly. Pay attention to architectural details, colors, sculptures and fountains. Not the fact that your baby will become a sculptor or painter. It is important that he learns to live with a positive attitude. After all, from life itself (not only from a play or an art exhibition) you can receive aesthetic pleasure.

LOVE FOR NATURE AND ALL LIVING. Most of all, the child's soul responds to nature. Try to visit the forest as often as possible, listen to birdsong, splash in the river, watch insects in the grass, sniff flowers and watch the wind swing the tops of the pines. Nature does not need anything from us. She only gives. We ourselves know how a space where there are no cars, high-rise buildings and crowded people heals a tired soul and body. Children are close to nature, even urban ones. Try to take the baby to the village or to the dacha. First of all, he will start digging in the ground. Allow him such luxury!

SURROUND YOURSELF WITH BEAUTIFUL THINGS... Already from infancy, when the baby's eyesight is being formed, he clings with his gaze to attractive objects. Make your life bright. It's good if you are surrounded by things made with your own hands: an embroidered picture, a sweater knitted for a crumb, a panel on the wall. Such things are always "alive", they have a part of our soul, and it will certainly pass to our children. The kid does not need to be specially taught anything, he will see everything himself. The main thing is to have something to show. Now we are not talking about beauty-comfort and beauty-prestige. Beauty is not always and does not have to be expensive. In a sense, the old toys of our childhood, which are inherited by children, are priceless treasures of our biography, our living emotions (not in the past, but in the present). Even the original Picasso will not replace them.

MORE INTEREST AND PLEASURE... Where does the aesthetic feeling begin? With admiration, with interest. If we admire, sincerely and from the heart, our child will also not remain indifferent to the world around him. Psychologists note that the modern generation of children has a large amount of memory, but a poorly developed emotional sphere. They learn this partly from us adults who have no time to raise their heads and look at the stars. The beauty that is always there goes unnoticed. A person who has lost touch with beauty is lost in everyday space, he is absorbed by everyday life and worries. Parents are faced with a difficult task - not to get lost on their own and not to mislead their own children. In principle, all children have a natural gift - curiosity about the world. We can only add accents: “You see this. But this? " Teach your baby to be surprised and enjoy everything he comes in contact with in life.

Knowing of limits

Known child teacher and the psychologist KD Ushinsky said: “From repetition the feeling weakens, and from repetition the feeling intensifies ... a feeling that has not been evoked for a long time fades away; the feeling often evoked is dulled. " He pointed to an incredibly fine line.

"Bad taste has limits, only good taste is endless."
Coco Chanel

What do you pay more attention to? Do you know how to see the beautiful, the beautiful, the inspiring around you?

See in the little things. Notice it at any moment on your way, no matter where you are at this moment - at home, in the office, outdoors or in an art gallery.

• What is a sense of taste?
• Where does it come from, what does it depend on and why is it given to us?
• Do you agree that the taste can be instilled, educated? Or with the fact that if “it’s not given by nature, then there’s nothing you can do about it?”

I invite you to jointly research this topic on an open broadcast in Tuesday 19 April at 19.00 (Moscow time)

Why develop a sense of the beautiful for a person of the New Epoch

Why do I consider having a sense of taste no less important than having harmony in relationships, health, finances?

I am convinced that a sense of beauty is essential for our harmonious development. It helps fill our life with joy from contact with "ordinary" things, colors our reality, inspires us to create our own space of joy, love and harmony around ourselves and our loved ones.

Each of us is aware or not creates its own reality... In fact, we are all Creators! Is it possible to create, to be creative without love for your creation and the process as a whole? And how can love not be beautiful and sincere?

Using the memory of our soul (our past lives and the space between lives) as an example, we will explore the theme of feeling beauty and creativity in the lives of talented, gifted and most ordinary people.

And also we will definitely conduct a meditative and artistic practice that will help you ...

• Align with your Creative Start
• Create your dream space from your regular apartment, home, office

A person with a True Taste, Feeling of His Deepest Essence is not just a subtle-feeling person. But he is very empathetic and sincere.

Are you comfortable with such people?

Agree with them The world is getting better!

We all have a lot to strive for - every moment re-create yourself, to experience the grandest version of the finest of all our ideas of WHO WE ARE!

Ps. And never settle for less!

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Be sure to prepare paper, crayons, crayons, paints, your questions and thoughts on this topic.

I have a heightened sense of beauty. I very subtly feel the relevance of attire at this or that holiday of life, I get hysterical with the wrong combination of colors, I know how one or another is spelled correctly Difficult words... If you make a mistake in any of this, I will point my finger at you and laugh. I will tell all my friends about your oversight, and at the sight of you they will start laughing homerically.

Do you consider yourself a stylish and beautiful girl? Have you put on a light blue coat, a light green skirt, pink boots and a purple bag? Honey, I will not just point my finger at you, but I will also express my "phi" to the whole street. Learn to dress appropriately.

Do you like to walk on 15-centimeter stiletto heels, but do not know that in this case your legs are like those of a person who just got off a horse? I will make fun of you in front of everyone. If you want to stand out with a beautiful gait, evaluate your efforts and skills.

Do you paint your lips with bright scarlet lipstick, chew gum worse than a cow, wear patent black boots with a white skirt and do not take off your down jacket all winter, ending near the kidneys? I will call you a prostitute. In extreme cases - a brainless fool. I don't give a damn if you get sick or not, but your honest profession of a lawyer is not written on your forehead, which means that you will be called what you look like.

You haven't washed your hair for a week, bought some black pants, shitheads and a spiked belt? Dear, you are not a punk, not a goth or even a rocker - you are almost a bum. Your hair is not greasy, you have impenetrable laziness. Nowadays, you can find amazing care products for any type of hair. A belt is far from an attribute of a rocker or punk life. If you want to know, rocker is not a derogatory diagnosis. If you are not an adherent of these cultures from birth, you will not understand this lifestyle, and you still will not be able to imitate.

You call yourself a business man, wear shoes, a coat and trousers with arrows, but at the slightest request to give up your seat on the tram, you start to curse everyone? You are a trash. Take off the clothes of a decent person and put on "abibas". Otherwise, behave befitting of status, or simply don't call yourself an elite of the intelligentsia.

Sitting in a chat, do you think that there are no Russian language teachers here, and you can relax? I will be exactly that bore who will blow your "on the bed", "ATP", "smack", "oga", "bread" and other heresy to smithereens. I will get the moderators, I will make fun of you in front of other forum participants, I will humiliate you, despite your tricks in the form of swearing, name-calling and attempts to stop the discussion of your cretinism. If you do not know the differences in five chemical nomenclatures without being a chemist, I will not touch you. But God forbid you write something simple wrong Russian word- I'll eat and spit out the bones.

I have infinite patience, very thick skin and a complete lack of compassion for the poor and the poor. If you were born human, be kind to them and stay. I know that I’ve gotten sick of everyone, I know that I cannot change the world for myself, but I don’t need it. I will continue to hammer those people around me, and you, dear ones, think about yourself.

By itself "sense of beauty" - evolutionary-neutral.

• It's pretty random side effect of the existence of an evolutionarily useful "like" / "dislike" system, At first.
• Secondly, SOME human preferences are innate, and SOME of the innate ones are evolutionarily useful (there are also neutral ones, for example). This affects the characteristics of perception.
• Third, the "feeling of beauty" in many ways - just the result of learning... And the very ability to learn to prefer (perceive as "like" / "beautiful") one thing (and, on the contrary, reject the other as "not like" / "ugly") is, on the whole, evolutionarily useful.
  Replace"a sense of beauty" to a more adequate "like"... I like to see some objects, I like to hear some sounds. Some others leave indifferent, others - repel, frighten, etc. The traditional concept of "feeling of beauty" does not apply to sensations from smell, taste and touch, but "like" and "dislike" are also here to the same extent ...

Is there an "evolutionary sense" in the fact that one thing is "like" and the other is the other way around? Oh sure. The point is to do (on average) something useful and avoid doing (on average) something harmful. For example, certain anatomical proportions indicate (do not guarantee, but correlate with) good male / female health and fertility. Symmetry of the face and body is also about health. If not momentarily, then in the past (childhood, embryonic development). Well, here are many of the classic beauty standards in fine arts and sculpture. There is no "evolutionary sense" from art, but from the choice of a healthy and fertile sexual partner - very much even. And who will you choose in the first place? Someone who "likes"!

"Favorite"does not necessarily induce intimacy, as in sex, but always attracts attention... People love to look at the felines. Especially - on large, but close to communicate with large usually does not pull. Is there an "evolutionary sense" here? Yes, these were our worst enemies. Especially - the African leopard, whose menu largely consists of primates living in the savannah (baboons, for example). And in the recent past, hominids living in the savannah were also included in his diet. They would come in now, but people have spears and guns, there are many of them and they are vengeful. Previously, it was not so good with guns and even spears.

Is there an "evolutionary sense" to closely watch from a safe place for the worst and most dangerous enemy? Do not let him get out of sight, quietly hiding nearby? Noticing habits, hunting method, strengths and weaknesses? Yes, or rather was. A a legacy from a defenseless past left a majestic feline as symbols of rulers and / or as an object of demonstrating the superiority of the great king even over the "himself" of the leopard or lion. And also the disproportionately large presence of large predators in programs about animals and large felines - compared to other large predators. How beautiful is the mesmerizing image of a natural enemy that will someday kill and eat us! You just can't take your eyes off! ..

So, itself the existence of the "like" / "dislike" system has an evolutionary background... SOME innate features of this system - too. But this does not mean that absolutely everything from the field of "the feeling of beauty" has such a background. Man is a learning creature... Social standards and / or personal biographical events instilled in childhood influence individual perception. Is this learning ability useful for survival? Yes, definitely! But this does not mean that everything learned is necessarily useful and has its own "evolutionary sense".

As for social standards, compare classical European music, pop music, music from China, the Arab East, African tribes ... Each has its own fans, usually just accustomed from childhood. And to me, a layman, it seems common, perhaps, the presence in almost any music of at least some kind of rhythm (repetition). God knows what biological (evolutionary?) Background is behind the sense of rhythm and its positive aesthetic perception, but this is a property of all cultures and most people. Rest musical preferences are culturally determined, not evolutionary.

It's the same with visual perception. Symmetry, narrow hips and broad shoulders in a man, wide hips in a woman - this is a fairly universal aesthetics for physiological reasons. The positive perception of a "moon-faced beauty" (a flat face with slit-like eyes) is already a local cultural feature (there have never been other beauties in this population - so they loved what they have). The preference for strong obese women or asthenic thin women is a cultural feature associated with the living conditions of the population. Biological Optimum - Strong, broad hip and thick(not skinny, at least). Will give birth without cesarean, endure and feed the child into hunger. Deviations from the physiological optimum can only be successfully cultivated under unnatural conditions.... Asthenic beauties could only be afforded (without dying out) by aristocrats, who were guaranteed food, and the child - a nurse from commoners. The peasants could not, and their ideal of feminine beauty was about the same as that of the Cro-Magnons of the Stone Age (evolutionarily conditioned). The hips are wider and the boobs are larger. Now there is a lot of grub for everyone, there is artificial food and modern medicine (also for everyone), and society has begun to allow itself anti-evolutionary "aristocratic" standards of beauty. Narrow-hip skinny models, for example.

Finally, there are many purely random preferences that have nothing in common (or opposite) with evolution or conditions of existence. It just happened by chance that all or many people have some kind of innate preferences - evolutionary neutral. And an individual individual can, for more or less accidental reasons, have any innate or acquired tastes at all that are not associated with either evolution or society.

Thank you, but still, why do more mentally gifted people (almost all) think the same thing is beautiful? - Sunset, the smell of dew in the morning, the smell of mowed grass, or the same classical music? The pursuit of beauty ranges from intelligence?

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more mentally gifted people (almost all) - consider the same thing beautiful

You think so, but I'm closer to "the taste and color of the comrade is not." I would be very surprised if Malevich's Black Square, the late Picasso or Chagall's paintings REALLY really, really like most people in general, or most of your sample. I will believe it not earlier than this will be confirmed not in words, but by objective measurements of the activity of the corresponding regions of the brain, etc.

"Mentally gifted" (or rather, simply better educated) people are more likely to LEARN to consider what is considered beautiful in their environment. And even if they have a different opinion, they can hide it out of conformism, which is characteristic of them no less than others. Or have already gone to some ballet and Picasso so many times that they really began to like them. Repetition is the mother of learning.

All kinds of dew and grass ... Well, the cut grass smells really good. There is some kind of biological background, apparently. Dew? I don’t remember any special dew lovers in my circle, although there were some art lovers.

In any case, I am an exception to your supposed rule (with or without quotes) and, accordingly, your additional question should be addressed to someone else. My "aesthetic" position is outlined in another topic:

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Well, you are right to some extent ... The fact is that in my life I have come across people who fall under this rule. When several educated people come to the meadow, look at the clouds and talk about Dostoevsky. Until they are disturbed by the family who came to the kebabs, including pop music, scattering plastic garbage around and mouthing savoryly every time they have something stuck in their mouths.

Naturally, by a few particular examples, one cannot judge society as a whole. But when, for example, at the age of 8 I heard classical music, I could no longer imagine anything more beautiful. Having obtained a disc, after school I listened wonderful works Bach, Mozart and Debussy. At school, I could not tell anyone about my passions in music, otherwise I would have been made a laughing stock, and at home, when my parents came home from work, they themselves listened to pop music, and my music gave them a headache.

Having gone to the ballet for the first time, I also did not remain indifferent, and it impressed me much more than discos with rumbling music or conversations with swearing on the bench at the entrance. If finances and time allowed, I would go to the opera, concerts of symphonic music and to the theater even every week. I know a few more similar cases when people fell in love with the concept of "beautiful" accepted in society - I don't know if such a stereotype was imposed on them that if you are smart, you must love classical art. And they love him - even though they are people of different professions - a programmer, an associate professor, an intern teacher at the university and an amateur astronomer.

They don't argue about tastes - it's true, and art lovers in life are not necessarily "angels" - but still I want to believe that "beautiful" makes us better to some extent. Thanks.

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Let's just say there is a "common" and a hype passed off as "common". And there are people who have learned to love the generally accepted. Or imitating such love.

There are people who do not like or are indifferent to much of the "generally accepted", who do not hide their opinion and do not feel any inferiority or inferiority in this regard. For example me:-)

There are people who, WITHOUT LEARNING ("offhand"), like much of the "generally accepted". Especially from the classics, yes. There have been two such people in my life and I have no reason to doubt their tastes. (By the way, I like something too, but this "something" is much less, and "like" is much weaker.) You, in your words, belong to this category. Well, great - enjoy what you like.

Just don't add a level here mental development... Cows also like classical music - even milk yield is increasing.

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Is it common to get carried away with classics? Rather, you will be gnawed and laughed at. Like: What a show-off he is! Let me ignore him and dunk in my dreams- Na, you! Loch, big-eared, go get carried away with your Khultura, and we will listen to the rap chick, all sorts of versus, we will smoke in the entrance, we will discuss what Natasha is "bad" - with one, then with the other. Pop is generally accepted, YouTube trends (100,500, parcels from China, how I earned without someone else's help, cashbacks, trash) - this is all interesting to the bulk, and not elite art.

Even the name “elite” does not mean for everyone. But only for the stratum of society that likes it. And one question arises: has there not been an association that clever man should spend time in art, because this is what previously educated people were different?

Looking at a person - his appearance, behavior, conversation, one can understand whether he has developed aesthetic feelings of the beautiful and the sublime.

Does he have a sense of taste and style, a sense of beauty and beauty, aesthetic ...

All people behave and look differently, everyone has a different taste and sense of style (as they say: “there are no comrades for taste and color”), everyone has brought up their own aesthetic feelings of beauty ...

You are asked to take an online style sense test to see if you have a developed aesthetic sense of taste for beauty or not.

And not just to understand, but also to learn to develop a sense of taste in oneself, because if a person has developed aesthetic feelings, then this says a lot ...

Test for a sense of style, aesthetic sense of taste for beauty

Before passing the test for the sense of style and taste of beauty, i.e. to determine how developed your aesthetic senses are, you should understand what it is about (a little excursion before testing).

According to the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, taste is the ability to judge beauty.
Only a developed sense of taste in a person is able to bring a person to harmony with himself, other people, the world and the universe.

For example, it is considered to be the presence of a sense of aesthetic taste in a person in appearance, i.e. if a man or woman is dressed tastefully and stylishly, when they have clothes, other accessories and elements of their appearance (including makeup, smells of perfume, jewelry, hairstyle ...) are selected taking into account the characteristics of the figure, face, etc. - that is, they emphasize the dignity and hide flaws.

Aesthetic taste and style presupposes a person's selectivity, his adherence to a certain direction, and personal preferences with own opinion about things (I emphasize - with your own, and not taken from someone).

Those who do not prefer something specific, do not have their own "I" (imitates, copies someone), who are omnivorous and indiscriminate - do not have a sense of taste and style. They have not developed aesthetic senses.

See for yourself the people around you on the street. Do many have a sense of taste and style? And that means - how many are harmonious inside, in life, in relationships?

The psychological aspect of the aesthetic taste of beauty

A few more words and you can pass the test for your sense of style and taste.

You've probably seen people dressed with taste, while others have a lack of aesthetic taste, bad taste in style, no sense of beauty.

For example, nice to look at beautiful girl with a beautiful figure, whose tight-fitting clothes emphasize her dignity - her clothes, accessories, jewelry, good makeup, manicure, a light pleasant smell of perfume shows her sense of taste.

Or, a girl with folds, stretch marks on her stomach, cellulite and excessively full legs, also dressed in tight-fitting or these parts of the body are open, plus the smell of her perfume cuts her nose, and the makeup is artificially bright and not harmonious - clearly speaks of disharmony in the soul and lack of a sense of taste and beauty.

Both can be dressed in stylish and fashionable clothes of the same brand, but is it an indicator of both sense of style?

Probably, if a girl does not have a very chiseled figure, then she should have put on things that level her flaws, and not show them ...

The psychological aspect of the sense of taste and style, or lack thereof, just not in the clothes, accessories, perfume and make-up.

And not even that a person knows how to emphasize advantages and hide flaws, due to the ability to dress correctly and apply makeup.

Aesthetic taste inside a person, in his head, in his soul (in the psyche) - a sense of taste is laid in childhood, in the process of education and socialization.

From a psychological point of view, we can slightly reverse (but not distort) the opinions of philosophers about the sense of taste for beauty.

Those. an undeveloped sense of taste leads a person to harmony within himself and in outside world, but a little on the contrary - the feeling of harmony within oneself leads to the development of aesthetic taste and harmony in the world and the universe.

It's easy to check. See for yourself. If a girl is beautiful both in body and in soul, then how not to "make up", how not to dress up, how not to sulk - at least in no way, at least dress her in felt boots, a quilted jacket and a hat with earflaps in the summer - she is still beautiful, harmonious, charming and attractive .., something warm, beautiful, good emanates from her ...

Her sense of taste and beauty is inside her, not in clothes and other accessories.

Take a look at another beautiful girl, stylishly and tastefully dressed and well groomed.

If she has disharmony and emptiness in her soul, then whatever her external gloss and aesthetic taste, she blows cold, negative, her eyes are empty, she repels spiritually ... (she can attract, except physically ... in lust ...).

Summary, before testing for style and taste:
You are free to dress and adorn yourself in any way you personally feel is good. You can stick to any trend in fashion and style. The sense of taste is not innate - it is acquired, you can always develop and change the aesthetic taste.
The main thing you need to know it is that your personal sense of taste and style is in your head, not on your body. Be harmonious in your soul, and the rest will follow ...

So, take the style and aesthetic taste test online

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