Beauty and Harmony

What is beauty? Does beauty exist only in the eyes of the beholder? Is there any common measure all beholders can agree upon?

I think there does exist a common opinion to decide what is beautiful or not. Art is, in fact, to seek (or probably create) beauty in everything (either in nature or in artifacts) around us. Maybe beauty is more objective than what we believe.

Whatever harmonious is beautiful, I believe. Beauty and harmony are strongly intertwined with each other. When things combine and exist harmoniously, they become beautiful. Actually, obvious or not, beauty does exist in everything around us: in the sky, in the world, in the water, in a math equation, in a painting, in music, in a girl, in a bird, in a phone, in a curry dish and what not.

Beauty is, maybe or maybe not, related to the its functional existence; however it is strongly related to its harmonious existence. Although they may contain the same ingredients, there is a world of difference between a mediocre dish and a delightful dish. It all depends on how harmoniously we can combine different things.

Engineering, although it is also another methodology to combine different things, is different from Art. Unlike Art, the primary focus of Engineering has been functional existence of different things. However, 'Mother Nature' shows us that there is a co-existence between functionality and harmony. Through bio-mimicry, there will be, sooner or later, more engineering arts to create functional harmonious existences.

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