How to cultivate a sense of beauty

The whole process of the formation of the sense of beauty can be divided into 4 stages. It's the accumulation of impressions, emotional experience, knowledge and formation evaluation. Of course, in reality, these stages do not follow strictly one after the other, they complement each other. The availability of each of them is necessary to ensure that the person has learned to see and appreciate beauty.

First of all you need to build up the aesthetic experience. Read fiction, watch movies, go to concerts, exhibitions and museums about cultural monuments, etc. not all works of art are the epitome of beautiful. They may reflect other categories of aesthetics – ugly, sublime and low, tragic and comic. The perception of all categories in the complex will help you to feel the beauty in comparison with other aspects of life. In addition, only "taste" both terrible and beautiful, you will learn how to distinguish one from the other.

Such "base" is read, heard and seen must be supplemented by sensory and emotional experience. At the initial stage you do not have to analyze the fine. But a quick "like/dislike" is not enough. Try to focus on their experiences, to understand them. After meeting a beautiful write down their impressions, specifying exactly which colors emotions you've experienced in connection with it. This applies not only to works of art. Beautiful can manifest in all spheres of human life, to treat the material and the immaterial side of existence. Listening carefully to your feelings, you will gradually get used to more sensitively perceive reality, so, you ready to meet a beautiful.

To move from emotional perception to reasoned estimates, study the theory. The start will be enough for the most basic textbooks on the history of art. You can learn basic information about all the periods, trends, styles. Try to stick to chronological order, reading the theory and supplementing it with case studies. When the basics are mastered, it will be possible to study in depth some of the topics that seemed most interesting.

The accumulation of such Luggage you can proceed to its analysis. You will help to Orient professional critics. Their reviews can be found in specialized magazines, radio and TV programs. Try to compare different points of view, agree to, and argue with them. As a result, you will produce a point of view. In the next stage, try not to read criticism on a fresh piece of art above your own to note its pros and cons. Then compare your opinion with the expert assessments.

Discuss beautiful with your friends and associates. Go to literary events, share experiences from films, find communities of interest online.

Feeling that you have formed certain ideas about beauty, do not turn on them. Stay up to date even in areas and in a style that you don't like, and try to understand that they may appeal to other people. So your idea of perfect will be expanded and enhanced.