Response to "Can Beauty Be Constructed?"

Luis Rojas
Professor Young
ENGW 1100
November 2, 2014

Can Beauty Be Constructed?

          "Beauty is man-made", according to TED Talk with Cameron Russell. I would personally agree with saying that beauty can be constructed. Throughout Cameron Russell's speech in TED Talk, she keeps emphasising how difficult it is to be a model because even if you had hit the "genetic lottery" as she stated, the people working there, still had to add make-up and do her hair in a certain manner. Even after the picture was taken, they still had to retouch the picture with Photoshop and add artificial lighting and all of these other variations that just makes the picture fake and there for the beauty in the picture is man-made, or constructed.

          Aimee Mullins made clear throughout her "Twelve Legs" speech that beauty can be constructed. When I first heard her speech, I was in awe of her confidence with herself because most people with prosthetics would not find themselves "beautiful" or anything along those lines. Aimee Mullins constructs beauty in a different sense. She constructs it in the form of art. When she demonstrated the wooden prosthetics, it was just incredible. For me, that was beauty well constructed & according to "A Darwinian Theory Of Beauty" by Denis Dutton, we subconsciously find beauty in something that is done well.