Inner beauty（内在美）contrasts to outer beauty and usually describing a person and quite often describing a woman. Inner beauty is inside, invisible, spiritual or characteristic beauty found but not visually found in a person while outer beauty is outside, visible, physical beauty visually found in a person.Paintings may have some inner beauty（内在美) like spiritual beauty but differ from person's inner beauty as paintings are visual arts. You can find spiritual beauty or some kind of spiritually or psychologically pleasant feeling in paintings but through its static appearance - how they look to you. You find inner beauty in a person through her/his way of talking, movement, reaction, etc not related with the appearance.
Meanwhile paintings have hidden beauty as well. People see painting in many different ways, quite a freedom. Some people see more beauty in the color and shade (some Chinese paintings are black/gray on white paper) in a painting while some other people see more beauty in the composition in the same painting. Compositional beauty is relatively hidden as compared with color and shade beauty. Lines - straight and curves - in a painting bring you some feeling like strength, force, direction, movement, gradual and sudden changes, deepness - 3D, smoothness, elegance. Beauty of lines is somewhat hidden, too. So experienced viewers tend to find beauty in composition and lines as well as or more than in colors and shades. Combination of these factors in a painting brings you a total impression, which varies very much with viewers. Total impression (not just a addition of the factors, or can be said a very complex multiplication of these factors) pleases you very much or even elevates you spiritually. So paintings, especially good paintings, have a lot of hidden beauty.
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