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John Keats Beauty Is Truth

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Dedication
This book is dedicated to those unrecognized, anonymous cave painters whose immortal works are the foundation of human aesthetics

Introduction
Everyday technology is striving with newer achievements. Life is getting more planned, mechanized, digital, electronic. But as the calm and comfort of the outer world is increasing the human inner self is becoming more perturbed. Apparently art and particularly fine arts is losing its relevance. If man can pursue all his earthly needs by technological and scientific endeavors then what is the need for indulging in imaginations or dreams? What is the purpose to do hard work to learn painting or sculpture or music? Is it just to entertain the self and others or the peculiar thing called …show more content…

A lie? How can a lie be enlightening us to realize the truth? Then you must ask what is truth. And I found the answer in the Grecian Urn of John Keats “Beauty is truth”. I was utterly confused over the dilemmas and contradictions. If beauty is truth then what about ugly, the vulgar, the mean, the meek? Is it not also truth? Confused was I but my inner self was silently dictating me ‘No it can not be truth’. It can be reality, it may exist but it can never take the position of truth at least in the anthropocentric sense. Did the ugliness never ruled earth? Beauty is everywhere and ugliness is also everywhere, life and death both are reality, plants and weeds coexist, flowers and thorns are on the same plant. Then how can beauty be only truth? In many sleepless nights I walked on moonlit rocks in total seclusion to find the answers of this question. Again my inner self guided me and one day like a thunderous epiphany solved the paradox in Picasso’s words. I realized that here lies the duty of an artist. To create such sweet ‘lies’ that the ugliness will be overwhelmed by the hues of beauty, death will be projected as if a friend of life ,thorns will be putting symmetry to the flower and even the shadows will enhance the vibrancy of

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