claritas
According to St. Thomas Aquinas integritas, consonantia and claritas are three constituents of a beautiful thing.
Integritas is what makes the thing itself. An axe is most beautiful at the very moment it chops the wood, because thus an axe manifests its axe-ness.
Consonantia is a harmony revealed in coherence of the parts that compound a beautiful thing.
Claritas is elusive. It distinguishes flawless painting from a masterpiece. At the same time an imperfect (consonantia-less) or even broken (integritas-less) thing may still be beautiful due to claritas.
Distorted, messy, awry yet beautiful pics claritas shines through.
Integritas is what makes the thing itself. An axe is most beautiful at the very moment it chops the wood, because thus an axe manifests its axe-ness.
Consonantia is a harmony revealed in coherence of the parts that compound a beautiful thing.
Claritas is elusive. It distinguishes flawless painting from a masterpiece. At the same time an imperfect (consonantia-less) or even broken (integritas-less) thing may still be beautiful due to claritas.
Distorted, messy, awry yet beautiful pics claritas shines through.
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
James Joyce
James Joyce