Beauty

The question on “what is beauty”
my mind immediately
calling up the quote,
“beauty is in the eye of the beholder”,
as if there is no single concept
no single truth
the question, what is beauty

But the idea of public art
paid from the government’s coffers
homogenizing, making dull
the richness of art

Beauty, all around
wherever we are
color and light,
texture and shape
nature and man-made
all of it beautiful
something singular
even in the universal
whatever it is that catches
our own eye


February 17, 2010
listening to the show
“Here and Now” February 17, 2010
http://www.hereandnow.org/2010/02/rundown-217-2/
Robin Young’s interview with art critic Dave Hickey,
http://english.unlv.edu/faculty/hickey.html


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