Beauty?

One can appreciate beauty without dissecting a work. But it is by dissecting, the details of an object of appreciation is made known to Man. If appreciating beauty involves appreciating each intricate details, then inevitably, beauty can only be appreciated in its entirety by dissection. But can Man really appreciate beauty in its entirety after it is dissected? After all, when Man at last desires to capture beauty in its wholeness, Man needs to take a step back from his dissection and assemble it all back together. Yet beauty cannot be captured still, since human restoration ironically can never restore an initial state, let alone the initial beauty. In the mind of Man, the work is no longer a whole but a mutilated corpse. How can we see the corpse as a man with individuality, conscious life and freedom?

The highest appreciation of beauty is without dissection. Without dissection and yet every intricate details must perceived all at once in an instance together with the whole. Only a true artist can perceive beauty with such perspective, not the art theorist.