Is the notion of ‘correctness’ just a trend believed to be true by a group of individuals?
As I think about this idea of correctness it seems to me influenced by a network of individuals. Thus they create and impose a particular idea of what characterizes an ideal sense of beauty. For example, Italian Renaissance painters would illustrate biblical stories in a whole manner of ways and interpretations. This resulted from the interest of beauty in Christianity. To be considered at the top, to be in first rank, one would have to paint in the conditions of the patron (thus reflecting in society’s view of beauty as it was people of power who were conditioning the public eye, for smaller artists would not have very much influence). This is what comes from an authoritative source within the confines of a society. To me this is important in defining what one thinks of beauty because correctness would then be put in place to the standard, or universality.
Of course everyone at the same time is able to have their own subjective experiences. These subjective experiences would take into account a person’s own opinions, previous experiences, and personal development. This combined with the above standard, imposed by society, I would think would form the notion of correctness. As I do not think the correctness of today will be the correctness of tomorrow, for everything is constantly changing due to time and space and the phenomena around the world.
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