If the aesthetic aspect of images created by artificial intelligence has now reached the ultimate stage of photorealism, their semantic field remains human, all too human.
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The body positive movement aims to neutralize beauty standards under the guise of fighting discrimination. This approach, taken to the extreme as under the Maoist regime, deprives the individual of the vital impulse inspired by beauty.
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A subtle tradition dating back to the Scottish Enlightenment, and in particular to David Hume, one of its leading exponents, makes the aesthetic evaluation of a thing a personal feeling, but one caused by properties actually possessed by that thing.
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Is beauty in things or in our minds? According to British philosopher Roger Scruton, neither option is satisfactory. By pointing out the paradoxical nature of aesthetic judgments, he attempts to overcome the opposition between objectivism and subjectivism.
Le Regard Libre N° 65 - Loris S. Musumeci
Extract from the «Génération Angèle» file»
The great French-language music revelation of 2018! More than a revelation, Angèle is a phenomenon. A young blonde combining beauty and intelligence at just twenty-four years of age, she is conquering the hearts of French-speaking youth. And beyond: her audience is beginning to reach far beyond generations Y and Z, and is no longer exclusively French-speaking; her explosive success in New York in December 2019 bears witness to this. Angèle's eighteen tracks include lyrics, music and video clips. Lyrics that touch, music that stays, clips that surprise, and a sublime woman who already seduces so many, even though she's only at the dawn of a promising rise.
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Le Regard Libre N° 62 - Jean-David Ponci
Beethoven's music has few melodies, if we compare it with that of other composers: Mozart, Schubert... It is hardly pleasant, and even less worldly. The famous four strokes that open the Fifth Symphony are not a melody, but a motif. A motif to say what? Beethoven himself told his friend Schindler: «Thus knocks fate at my door».
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Because it's sublime
Le Regard Libre N° 60 - Loris S. Musumeci
I had to travel to London for an entirely different purpose to put images to Gauguin's name. «A great impressionist painter, yes. I think he traveled quite a bit, to Tahiti if I remember correctly.» My memories of art history classes were good, but incomplete. Trafalgar Square, The National Gallery: a must-see when in the British capital. And now the museum is honoring Paul Gauguin in one of its temporary exhibitions. «The Credit Suisse exhibition: Gauguin, Portraits». So, let's get exotic!
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«People are beautiful,» a friend of mine sometimes likes to say. That was my first impression of Michael Curtiz's film. Men and women of character, suits, coats, long...
LONG FORMAT ARTICLE | Beauty is promised by tourist agencies as a balm to soothe the neuroses of a life of frenetic offices, fast food and stress. Vacations, then, are the only bright spot in contemporary life: they're almost the exiguous drop in the bucket that the rich man in hell demands. But does the entertainment promised when we visit Porto, Split or Venice allow us to truly taste the beauty we're hoping for? And if we quench our thirst with this water, what will we leave to those who grew up near this source?
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