A Darwinian Theory of Beauty?

This Denis Duton video is really interesting, I think he has a very unique theory I never listen before, especially because has a lot of sense. Duton talk about beauty, and… what’s beauty? We cannot totally define beauty, even if you are a theorist or an art critic. The aesthetics taste we always think it was subjective, or culturally conditioned, but Duton has a different theory based on darwinian evolution. The question is: how to explain the universality of the experience of beauty? If I think about it has sense because we know Chilean people who likes japanese music or japanese people who likes African art. That means the experience of art is not determined by the culture, beauty is part of the psycology, is one of the darwinian adaptions in perception, our ancestors finds beauty in the same things we aesthetically enjoy today, but we expand that experience through the development of art and entertainment. Finally, humans find beauty in something done well, since always, so this taste for skill performances, natural landforms or works of art is deep in our minds, and that can come from the first human beings that enjoy beauty. I really like this theory; I think beauty can be anywhere, and even when each culture can defined in a different way, there is something universal about it, something about the experience that we cannot explain, just feel it, maybe Denis Duton is right, and we like a starry night because the first men liked too.

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  1. And what about contemporany art?
    Contemporany art questions or doubts precisely the virtuosity in art.

    Bye

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  2. The beauty according the psychology of culture and image, there is the point!

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