"Everything beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation."
Nature, Baudelaire says, is uglyand art is what saves us from it. This wicked, brilliant fragment defends makeup not as deception but as devotion: a ritual rebellion against decay, chance, and animal life. To paint the face is to reject natures chaos and choose artificefreely, proudly, and exquisitely.
This wicked, brilliant fragment defends makeup not as deception but as devotion: a ritual rebellion against decay, chance, and animal life.
