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      Beauty of the Beast

      “Beauty is animalistic, beautiful is celestial.”

Joseph Joubert, Pensées

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      Featured Artists

      Aldrovandi, Ulisse

      Aldrovandi, Ulisse

      Amir, Shaykh Muhammad

      Arcimboldo, Giuseppe

      Arcimboldo, Giuseppe

      Arcimboldo, Giuseppe

      Arcimboldo, Giuseppe

      Audubon, John James

      Audubon, John James

      Bonheur, Auguste François

      Bonnard, Pierre

      Bonnard, Pierre

      Bosch, Hieronymus

      Brascassat, Jacques Raymond

      Bruegel the Elder, Pieter

      Brueghel the Elder, Jan

      Brueghel the Younger, Jan

      Chagall, Marc

      Chagall, Marc

      Chardin, Jean-Baptiste Siméon

      Chardin, Jean-Baptiste Siméon

      Courbet, Gustave

      Courbet, Gustave

      Courbet, Gustave

      Courbet, Gustave

      Cranach, Lucas

      Crane, Walter

      Da Vinci, Leonardo

      Da Vinci, Leonardo

      De Luna, Charles

      Degas, Edgar

      Desportes, François

      Desportes, François

      Dürer, Albrecht

      Dürer, Albrecht

      Dürer, Albrecht

      Dürer, Albrecht

      Dürer, Albrecht

      Dürer, Albrecht

      Dürer, Albrecht

      Dürer, Albrecht

      Gauguin, Paul

      Gauguin, Paul

      Generalic, Ivan

      Generalic, Ivan

      Géricault, Théodore

      Hicks, Edward

      Hicks, Edward

      Hicks, Edward

      Hiroshige, Utagawa

      Hiroshige, Utagawa

      Hiroshige, Utagawa

      Hiroshige, Utagawa

      Hiroshige, Utagawa

      Hirschfield, Morris

      Hokusai, Katsushika

      Hokusai, Katsushika

      Hokusai, Katsushika

      Hokusai, Katsushika

      Hokusai, Katsushika

      Hokusai, Katsushika

      Jacque, Charles-Emile

      Kandinsky, Wassily

      Klee, Paul

      Klee, Paul

      Kuhnert, Friedrich Wilhelm

      Manet, Edouard

      Manet, Edouard

      Manet, Edouard

      Mansur

      Marc, Franz

      Marc, Franz

      Marc, Franz

      Marc, Franz

      Marc, Franz

      Marc, Franz

      Marc, Franz

      Matisse, Henri

      Oudry, Jean-Baptiste

      Picasso, Pablo

      Picasso, Pablo

      Pirosmani, Niko

      Pompon, François

      Potter, Paulus

      Ranson, Paul

      Rembrandt

      Rembrandt

      Rembrandt

      Rembrandt

      Rembrandt

      Remington, Frederic

      Remington, Frederic

      Robert-Fleury, Joseph Nicolas

      Robillard, Hippolite

      Rousseau, Henri

      Rousseau, Henri

      Rousseau, Henri

      Rubens, Peter Paul

      Shishkin, Ivan

      Steinlen, Théophile

      Stubbs, George

      Stubbs, George

      Susini, Antonio or Giovanni Francesco

      Troyon, Constant

      Van Gogh, Vincent

      Van Gogh, Vincent

      Velázquez, Diego

      Velázquez, Diego

      Warhol, Andy

      Warhol, Andy

      Warhol, Andy

      Simple Notion of Beauty

      In defining beauty, we say of it, first, that it is a simple and primary quality. It is uncompounded. No two or three qualities in any method present can compass it with their combined effects. No analysis can resolve it into other perceptions, but there always remains something unresolved and unexplained, which is beauty.

      The Three Black Auks (detail)

      Anonymous, c. 27,000-19,000 BCE

      Cosquer Cave, Calanque de Morgiou

      This is proved by the fact that the most successful of these resolutions, while they hit on qualities frequently concomitant with beauty and intimately related to it, are never able to go beyond this companionship and show the identity of those

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