Art and Aesthetics Represents the Female Sexuality in Zadie Smith's On Beauty

 

 

On Beauty by Zadie Smith explores feminism and expressions of female sexuality through the mediums of art and aesthetics. Art and aesthetics play an important role in conveying the self-expressions of different characters, specifically female characters. Art has also become a mode of various other significant expressions, for instance, identity, suppression, sexual independence, and freedom. Art and aesthetics play an important role in conveying the self-expressions of different characters, specifically female characters. Art has also become a mode of various other significant expressions, for instance, identity, suppression, sexual independence, and freedom. Art and aesthetics play an important role in conveying the self-expressions of different characters, specifically female characters. Art has also become a mode of various other significant expressions, for instance, identity, suppression, sexual independence, and freedom. Art and aesthetics play an important role in conveying the self-expressions of different characters, specifically female characters. Art has also become a mode of various other significant expressions, for instance, identity, suppression, sexual independence, and freedom. Art and aesthetics play an important role in conveying the self-expressions of different characters, specifically female characters. Art has also become a mode of various other significant expressions, for instance, identity, suppression, sexual independence, and freedom.
We investigate the unique relationship of various forms of art: music, visual art, poetry, paintings, and human expressions through the lens of aesthetic theory. Along with their varying degrees of self-awareness, they strive to achieve the true essence of freedom by being mentally, physically, and sexually independent, as in the case of the female protagonist of the novel Kiki. Kiki transformed herself into a more confident and empowered woman by accepting her husband's infidelity and letting herself out of the suppressed and suffocating bond of marriage. At the same time, she shows her support for her husband Howard by listening to his lecture at the end of the play.
The theme of female sexuality in Zadie Smith’s On Beauty is traced down through the characters of Kiki and Victoria and how the definition of female beauty and sexuality are perceived by men. Kiki, once young and gorgeous, has now become fat and old, which her husband uses as an excuse for his infidelity, and he starts an affair with Victoria. The female body in the novel is seen by the male gaze for sexual purposes or as sexual. They value a woman only because of her sexual appearance, not for her intelligence and goodness in their own "sexual universe". In their "sexual universe", Kiki has lost her identity and, contrasting to Kiki Victoria, through her voluptuousness, seduces many like Howard, Jerome, and Carl.
The mention of Haitian paintings by Hippolyta and Rembrandt’s love paintings are the expressions of various characters’ emotions, along with poetry and a concert on the music of Mozart. These are the aesthetical representations in Zadie Smith’s novel On Beauty. There is also the theme of female sexuality associated with beauty, how beauty is perceived both physically and non-physically.
In conclusion, we can say that Smith in her novel On Beauty demonstrates the significant thematic concerns of female sexuality, feminism, and the expression of various emotions through the mode of art and aesthetics. The relationship between art and human emotions is of primary concern. There is also discussion about that in this novel, how art translates human expressions and emotions through its various forms, for instance, Mozart’s music, Haitian painting, and Rembrandt’s love paintings.