The poetic saying emphasis the identity of beauty
and truth. According to it, only truth represents beauty -- a fact which all human
should take notice of in all their day-to-day thoughts, proclivities, human and
social dealings, and works of art and science. There are such things as acted
truths and acted lies and these ha e their impact in human life as important as
those which arise from the spoken or the written word. Truth and falsehood are qualities
that belong to the work of our hands, as well as words of our lips, and are
often more eloquent to the eye than the word can be to ears. They are expressed
by our whole personalities, by our character by our conduct, by our general
conversation with our kith kin, or friends in the world, and foes. Great truths
are often unicast by works of art literature, sculpture, painting, cartoon,
films or other effective media that permeates the human mind.
Every portrait painted is either a truth or a lie,
or a mixture of the two. Its beauty depends on the degree of truth, and honesty
dedicated in it. It also represents the character of the painter. An artist who
puts his hearts and soul in his work, and applies tones of colour, themes and
dedicated motifs, is able to produce a beautiful piece. If his objective is
merely mercenary. Simply to flatter the onlooker and paint for the sake of
getting outward appreciation, in terms of more his work cannot be called a
piece of lasting beauty.
In social life, it would be quite futile and
meaningless to state things of wisdom, religion, and all these, if they lack
audience. If there is no real response, reception or desire to understand the
profit by them. Launched into the empty space of the universe, with nobody to
receive them, even beautifully notice doctrines or thesis may go waste.
We can never understand beauty as an isolated thing,
self- supported, or hanging in tale air. A thing of beauty always appears in a
personal context, conditioned by the person who creates it, and for the persons
or the era on which it is focused. In fact, beauty and truth, like arts and
science, form together a kind of common-wealth in which each serves the rest,
and is, in turn served by them ‘as we know all knowledge is one-all comprehensive and
universal.
Truth is thing that is divine in nature and its
majesty would be affronted if we connect it too closely with our human lives.
Some of us have, therefore surrounded truth with a kind of theoretical
informatory, which has had to usual result of making both the idol and the idolater
insignificant.
Truth is a beautiful operation, a dynamic thing
which does its beneficent work in a personal and social context. On the other
hand, a lie is an offensive operation, performed by one man U other. It
resembles robbery and theft. Just as rubbery cannot commit without a victim, so
lies cannot be told without a victim to be deceived or beguiled. A lie is an
offence against logic. It is offence against the persons to whom it is
addressed.
Whatever else truth may be, there is no doubt as
to its being valuable. not merely in the sense that it is good to look at, but
also it does good to those who see it, known it and act upon it. Truth is, in other
words a value, not residing inertly in the personality that utters, it or the
work of art that expresses it. It operates rhythmically, making a difference
for the better, to every mind which accepts it. On the opposite end is the lie
that makes the personality of the teller, as well as of the listener, blurred
the for most contention between truth and lie extends its dimension ‘hen we identify
truth with beauty, as Keats so emphatically does in the quotation of this
essay. All we do in this case is to change the name of the operating power. An
idle beauty is no more conceivable than an idle truth. Indeed, beauty is never
more falsely conceived than when we think of it’s as deserving to be looked at.
People who look at beauty never see it. They see it when it operates upon them,
moves them, stirs them, and sentimentalizes them.
That Truth,
Beauty is dynamic and vital; no wonder they look to he identical. That truth is
beauty and beauty truth, is most significantly illustrated b the beauty that
lies in the creative arts. The truth when depicted in a piece of art -- a
painting, a poem. Musical lyric or symbolic dances become a personified beauty.
The painter, the poet, the musician or the d.an.er. Makes the truth so
beautiful that it permeates the whole being of the ‘.viewer. The reader, the
listener or the audience.
It spreads in the whole personality of each
individual, his heart. Brain, the hormones, the eves and the ears. It not only
inspires but also sentimentalizes. It leaves a life-long impression on the
mind, provided the audience is receptive and the message conveyed by the artists
is infinitely true.