Thousands of years ago, a person dressed in animal skins painted
pictures on the wall of a cave in France. The paints were made of
powdered red rock and black charcoal. These were mixed with fat to form
big lumps of color that looked like crayons. The painter rubbed the
lumps on the walls of the cave, making pictures of running horses. These
pictures seem beautiful and graceful to us even today.
We need beauty around us. That’s why we paint pictures and make statues.
That’s why we wear beads, bracelets, and earrings. That’s why there is
color and design in our clothes, our houses, our furniture, and most
other things we own and use.
We all love beauty. But what seems beautiful to one person may not seem
beautiful to another. We get our ideas of beauty from the culture we
live in. What is beautiful depends upon the way we see it.