Beauty standards set up a very unstable sense of self for those who are, and want to be, beautiful.
Derail the current beauty standard - YOU are beautiful, own your skin✊?? #FlexinMyComplexion pic.twitter.com/EpA1kcUz2E.
The history of art is full of radical artworks that were initially rejected that but were later reevaluated as aesthetically successful and even beautiful, as standards of aesthetic evaluation coevolved with the form, content, or mode of expression.
One way or another, most of the objects in the show, whether beautiful by Western standards, or "primitive" and scary, embody it.
"For no one" uses Purcellian tricks to hold the attention, gently-moving, seamless melody with characteristic descending bass motif, over which half way through there emerges a haunting descant, beautiful by any standards, Alan Civil, no less, playing the French horn.
This is how I described her to my diary that night: "Nadezda Simkova… Czech by birth, Swedish by upbringing, English by au pairing… beautiful by any standards, especially mine.
"Of course many of the melodies that the machine produces don't sound beautiful by traditional standards," he continues in a blog post.
This craftsmanship reached its apex in the 2nd century finesse of "baroque" jewelry, beautiful by any standards, placed in graves of women in (as the Wielbark culture expanded south) Poznań Szeląg and Kowalewko, Oborniki County, among other places.
The famous Twilight Zone episode, "Eye of the Beholder," told the story of a grotesquely deformed woman who actually turns out to be beautiful by the standards of the television viewer.
