![]() ![]() "The capacity to endure and enjoy feeling at high tension is somewhat rare. Difficult beauty also required us to stay in a state of "high tension of feeling," and it is our own weakness - the "weakness of the spectators," says Bosanquet, taking the phrase from Aristotle - that causes us to shrink from the challenge of difficult beauty. The intricacy of a difficult aesthetic object can provoke resentment and disgust in us if we are unable to resolve and classify the complex elements of the object. In difficult beauty, one often encourages intricacy, tension, and width. Our ability to appreciate difficult beauty depended on our education, insights endurance, and our capacity or attention. a one a youthful face, or the human form in its prime, all these afford a plain straightforward pleasure."Ĭonversely, difficult beauty, wrote Bosanquet required more time, patience, and a higher amount of concentration. ![]() “Easy beauty was apparent and unchallenging: "A simple tune a simple spatial rhythm. ![]()
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