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It’s hard to explain why paintings are beautiful. Caravaggio and Dali are from different eras, paint for different reasons, and have vastly different techniques. Yet, they both evoke a response of awe and appreciation. They both produce beautiful art.
A good painting is a straddling. A delicate dance on the razor’s edge between order and chaos. The viewers should be able to impose beliefs and impressions onto a work — but only within the artist’s predefined parameters. A fixed parameter may be the general emotion of the piece, then the painted canvas is merely a guide towards feeling a certain way. This parameter, and others, are defined through the artist’s skillful application of shading, drawing, texture, shadow, etc. The beauty of the work is a result of them actualizing their skill.
Beauty is skill in action.
Extension
A set is a collection of things. We often regard this collection as a singular object. Suppose Q = {a,b,c,d}. Our set Q has four things (or elements), namely: a, b, c and d. One of the basic ideas in Set Theory is the Principle of Extensionality. If two sets have exactly the same members, then they are equal
Let’s define three sets:
a) The set of numbers 2,3,5,7
