Does the Christian church have an official position on Beauty?

Here I am talking about Beauty as we perceive it either in nature or culture (i.e., not the physical beauty of individual human beings). Two separate thoughts have prompted this question: firstly, reading Augustine in his *Confessions* defining evil as a lack of good, since God would not have created positive evil. I wondered if this could be extended to things which seem ugly or repulsive: how are we to understand our own aversion to individual parts of divine creation? The second thought is that I am most often prompted to think of God and almost intuitively believe in Him when I behold beauty - in both nature and products of human culture. Accepting that this is a common human experience, is there a moral Christian imperative to cultivate beauty, as an aid to faith in God? Anyway, I wondered if there existed some official position on this, in any Christian denomination. I suppose it risks shading over into a sort of Nietzschean worship of the superman, or simply into idolatry.