Ugliness is seldom, if ever, spoken about unparalleled to beauty. Ugliness, rather, is confined to only that of beauty’s opposition, its antithesis. Like many abstractions: good and evil; love and hate; life and death – one does not exist without the implication of the other, however these dyads are not confined to be mere counterparts to their other, we understand them in their entirety both relative to, and apart from their counterparts.
Seldom is the prospect of ugliness ever explored; few philosophers have truly tried to saddle this bucking abstraction with a definitive, instead they espouse beauty. Plato equated beauty with morality, Kant equated beauty with harmony, Socrates equated beauty with utility, and Nietzsche thought Socrates was ugly. Largely, ugliness is still left to be abstract to the common man.
So then, what is ugliness? Why is its definition limited to the mere recognition of its physical manifestations? How does one know what ugliness is, and how to go about recognising it? How does one know they’re ugly? What does it mean to be ugly? What is ugliness to the common man?
Ugliness is seldom, if ever, spoken about unparalleled to beauty. Ugliness, rather, is confined to only that of beauty’s opposition, its antithesis. Like many abstractions: good and evil; love and hate; life and death – one does not exist without the implication of the other, however these dyads are not confined to be mere counterparts to their other, we understand them in their entirety both relative to, and apart from their counterparts.
Seldom is the prospect of ugliness ever explored; few philosophers have truly tried to saddle this bucking abstraction with a definitive, instead they espouse beauty. Plato equated beauty with morality, Kant equated beauty with harmony, Socrates equated beauty with utility, and Nietzsche thought Socrates was ugly. Largely, ugliness is still left to be abstract to the common man.
So then, what is ugliness? Why is its definition limited to the mere recognition of its physical manifestations? How does one know what ugliness is, and how to go about recognising it? How does one know they’re ugly? What does it mean to be ugly? What is ugliness to the common man?
Episode 01
THROW A ROCK, AND YOU HIT AN UGLY PERSON.
THROW A ROCK, AND YOU HIT AN UGLY PERSON.
Episode 01
Art work used: An Old Woman (The Ugly Duchess) by Quinten Massys ca. 1513.
THE GAP.
Episode 02
Art work used: The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Joachim Patinir - c.1524
AN UNFORTUNATE UNDERSTANDING OF SELF.
Episode 05
Art work used: Wounded Man by Otto Dix (Autumn 1916, Bapaume)
SPIRITUALLY FAT.
Episode 08
Art work used: Master of the Rouen Echevinage, Cite de dieu fol, ca. 1460.
AM I FETISHIZING YOU?
Episode 11
Art work used: The Arrest of Christ by Hieronymus Bosch c.1515
WHEN YOU WERE UGLY.
Episode 14
Art work used: Czardas Dancers by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner c.1908
HATING ORPHANS.
Episode 17
Art work used: Vertumnus by Giuseppe Arcimboldo c. 1591
ARE YOU MAD AT YOUR BODY?
Episode 03
Art work used: Magdalena Ventura with Her Husband and Son by Jusepe de Ribera c.1631
THE UGLY TWIN.
Episode 06
Art work used: North Netherlandish School: Portrait of two twins, probably from the Watervliet family of Flanders (17th century)
IT TAKES A VILLAGE.
Episode 09
Art work used: The Red Egg by Oskar Kokoschka c.1940-41
I WAS A DICK WHEN I WAS 10.
Episode 12
Art work used: Portrait of the Dwarf Nano Morgante by Bronzino (otherwise known as Agnolo di Cosimo) c.1552
THANK GOD FOR THE PANDEMIC.
Episode 15
Art work used: Adoration of the Magi by Master of the Virgo inter Virgines c. 1480–1495
YOU, THE IGNORED.
Episode 04
Art work used: The Temptation of St. Anthony by Bernardino Parenzano c.1494
THE (OTHER) UGLY TWIN.
Episode 07
Art work used: Hommage à Apollinaire by Marc Chagall c.1911.
THE MARGIN BETWEEN AVERAGE AND MINORLY GROTESQUE.
Episode 10
Art work used: The Sphinx by Georg von Rosen c.1887
AND FUCK RIPLEY'S AQUARIUM, WHILE WE'RE AT IT.
Episode 13
Art work used: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Pablo Picasso c.1907
AM I THE REASON YOU'RE UGLY?
Episode 16
Art work used: Mi Nacimiento (My Birth) by Frida Kahlo c. 1932
THE GAP.
Episode 02
Art work used: The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Joachim Patinir - c.1524
ARE YOU MAD AT YOUR BODY?
Episode 03
Art work used: Magdalena Ventura with Her Husband and Son by Jusepe de Ribera c.1631
YOU, THE IGNORED.
Episode 04
Art work used: The Temptation of St. Anthony by Bernardino Parenzano c.1494
AN UNFORTUNATE UNDERSTANDING OF SELF.
Episode 05
Art work used: Wounded Man by Otto Dix (Autumn 1916, Bapaume)
THE UGLY TWIN.
Episode 06
Art work used: North Netherlandish School: Portrait of two twins, probably from the Watervliet family of Flanders (17th century)
THE (OTHER) UGLY TWIN.
Episode 07
Art work used: Hommage à Apollinaire by Marc Chagall c.1911.
SPIRITUALLY FAT.
Episode 08
Art work used: Master of the Rouen Echevinage, Cite de dieu fol, ca. 1460.
IT TAKES A VILLAGE.
Episode 09
Art work used: The Red Egg by Oskar Kokoschka c.1940-41
THE MARGIN BETWEEN AVERAGE AND MINORLY GROTESQUE.
Episode 10
Art work used: The Sphinx by Georg von Rosen c.1887
AM I FETISHIZING YOU?
Episode 11
Art work used: The Arrest of Christ by Hieronymus Bosch c.1515
I WAS A DICK WHEN I WAS 10.
Episode 12
Art work used: Portrait of the Dwarf Nano Morgante by Bronzino (otherwise known as Agnolo di Cosimo) c.1552
AND FUCK RIPLEY'S AQUARIUM, WHILE WE'RE AT IT.
Episode 13
Art work used: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Pablo Picasso c.1907
WHEN YOU WERE UGLY.
Episode 14
Art work used: Czardas Dancers by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner c.1908
THANK GOD FOR THE PANDEMIC.
Episode 15
Art work used: Adoration of the Magi by Master of the Virgo inter Virgines c. 1480–1495
AM I THE REASON YOU'RE UGLY?
Episode 16
Art work used: Mi Nacimiento (My Birth) by Frida Kahlo c. 1932
HATING ORPHANS.
Episode 17
Art work used: Vertumnus by Giuseppe Arcimboldo c. 1591
THE GAP.
Episode 02
Art work used: The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Joachim Patinir - c.1524
YOU, THE IGNORED.
Episode 04
Art work used: The Temptation of St. Anthony by Bernardino Parenzano c.1494
THE UGLY TWIN.
Episode 06
Art work used: North Netherlandish School: Portrait of two twins, probably from the Watervliet family of Flanders (17th century)
SPIRITUALLY FAT.
Episode 08
Art work used: Master of the Rouen Echevinage, Cite de dieu fol, ca. 1460.
THE MARGIN BETWEEN AVERAGE AND MINORLY GROTESQUE.
Episode 10
Art work used: The Sphinx by Georg von Rosen c.1887
I WAS A DICK WHEN I WAS 10.
Episode 12
Art work used: Portrait of the Dwarf Nano Morgante by Bronzino (otherwise known as Agnolo di Cosimo) c.1552
WHEN YOU WERE UGLY.
Episode 14
Art work used: Czardas Dancers by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner c.1908
AM I THE REASON YOU'RE UGLY?
Episode 16
Art work used: Mi Nacimiento (My Birth) by Frida Kahlo c. 1932
ARE YOU MAD AT YOUR BODY?
Episode 03
Art work used: Magdalena Ventura with Her Husband and Son by Jusepe de Ribera c.1631
AN UNFORTUNATE UNDERSTANDING OF SELF.
Episode 05
Art work used: Wounded Man by Otto Dix (Autumn 1916, Bapaume)
THE (OTHER) UGLY TWIN.
Episode 07
Art work used: Hommage à Apollinaire by Marc Chagall c.1911.
IT TAKES A VILLAGE.
Episode 09
Art work used: The Red Egg by Oskar Kokoschka c.1940-41
AM I FETISHIZING YOU?
Episode 11
Art work used: The Arrest of Christ by Hieronymus Bosch c.1515
AND FUCK RIPLEY'S AQUARIUM, WHILE WE'RE AT IT.
Episode 13
Art work used: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Pablo Picasso c.1907
THANK GOD FOR THE PANDEMIC.
Episode 15
Art work used: Adoration of the Magi by Master of the Virgo inter Virgines c. 1480–1495
HATING ORPHANS.
Episode 17
Art work used: Vertumnus by Giuseppe Arcimboldo c. 1591
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