Art

Creative Manifestation Of Sense of Beauty

Art is not mere a subject or just a beautiful creation of a creative mind.

But this sense of beauty is missing in our lives, in our basic functions!

We chat a lot but all cliché, superficial and stale, either under social protocol of niceties or chit-chat of mundane superficial world but the art of conversation that satiate our hunger for intimacy, meaningfulness and joy is missing!

We do sex a lot but that too leaves behind something missing leading to dampen the fire within us to make love the next time, such a basic instinct of ours but the art of making love is missing in us!

Quality is missing, quality of life!

In the times of fast food quantity is the focus rather than quality.

We are left with very little time with us for really doing the basic things in our life tastefully, enjoying our actions!

Hence quality of life is left out away far behind from us!

Society without artists would be full of mental patients where war and violence will be way of living.

In our society which is full of grudges, hatred and agonies artists are like flowers in a cactus or a like a soft love song in between a violent gory movie.

In the times of peace they entertain the society with their creations of joy and beauty.

By their creations they let the people throw away their pent up emotional distortions and help finding harmony and rhythm within themselves.

Thus playing such an important role in soothing and shaping the psychological health of masses!

In the times of chaos in society when the atrocities of system make living hell of commoners sensitive heart of artists turn into fireballs themselves and turn the amber in the hearts of people into a storm of revolt, calling for a revolution for change!

They have a heart that is soft and sensitive but not coward.

They lead the changes in society and constantly keep attacking the ills of social culture by making mockery of it or by exposing it in its full nudity through their firry pen.

Forms of art are as many and as varied as the forms of beauty our hearts senses in life on earth!

Be it the Wax House of Madam Tusade in London or the Rock Garden in Chandigarh founded by Nek Chand, both gives us a wider sense of innovative creation of beauty.

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But in any form of it, this sense of beauty is common.

Creativity is always with love, harmony and peace and it is a constructive process that produces a piece that further takes this message of love and peace!

Creation of a piece of art is the graph of one’s passionate and intensely engrossed moments of her/his life rather than merely a product of production line that makes a genuine-artistic creation priceless be it a painting, musical composition or literature.

They become a perennial source of joy even for generations to come!

These creations of beauty expresses the human emotions with such subtle perfection-be that be plummeting depression or the ecstasy of highs!

Drawing and depicting every mood and implication of individual and social life on canvas!

Be it the deepest fantasy, melancholic mood or the complex abstract thoughts!

It depicts both ugliness and beauty in life with equal passion.

We relish the beauty depicted beautifully.

And the interesting aspect of it is that also this ugliness depicted in literature or paintings with all the sensitivity sets a sense of relieving in us and we find this creation expressing ugliness of our life beautiful!

Irony of the life is that concrete things do not have joy!

Once we achieve a thing that we had always craved for assuming it to be the source of joy but to find that the joy is no more there and even the hope of it is also lost!

Joy is in spirit and only creativity is closest to it.

So only this sense of beauty can catch this spirit!

World of art offers space and ultimate freedom to live life that we can’t live in the existing conditions of life!

The freedom, the colors one misses in one’s life in the socio-economic conditions to live can be lived through the process of involvement into creative world, through one’s own creation.

The beauty of art is that like beauty it too can’t be constrained in any set of rules.

So like any other knowledge it can’t be institutionalized and can’t be a prerogative of only effluent ones.

World has seen singers, painters, writers who are renowned as most respected icon figures of their disciplines.

Our eyes have got the quality of visual treat from the great painters. Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Salvadore Dali, Hieronymus Bosch, Klimt, Monet, Van Gogh, Klee, Botticelli and Titian are few of painters who have gifted humanity with masterpiece of paintings.

Our ears have been served with the melody of high quality music by the maestros and composers like Beethoven, Mozart, Schoenberg, Johann Sebastian Bach, R.Strauss, Brahms, Liszt, Wagner, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Janecek, Busoni, Reger. These are few of the musicians who have given such classics in music literature without which any musical concert is incomplete.

And then there have been the masters of dance who taught us to shake our bodies in ways which fills a sense of quality for being in this body. Dancers like Alvin Ailey, Thoinot Arbeau, Frederick Ashton, Astaire Fred, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Maurice Bejart, Carlo Blasis, Erik Bruhn, Fanny Elssler, Vaslav Nijinsky, Marie Taglioni, Twyla Tharp have been the dancers and dance choreographers in human history who broke new ground in the three dimensions of space to let our bodies dance with the richness of freedom and joy it dance today.

And the intellect of humanity has been nourished by the great thinkers, theater practitioners and writers of our world. Their pens are so influential that they have shown the kings to the ground and changed the way we all as a society think. Mark Twain, Benjamin Franklin, William Shakespeare, Carlos Castaneda, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Bernard Shaw, O. Henry, Bertolt Brecht, Dostovsky, Pushkin and Tolstoy are few of those insightful masters who looked deep into the world around felt its pain empathetically and created a piece churning out this pain within themselves.

Many out of them were not trained in any of art school and had never undergone any formal training anywhere!

Life was the teacher of their inclination for beauty!

Art has always been a way to understand the life and existence, understanding it in empirical way rather than analysis approach of science.

Poets and saints have been treading on this path of beauty since times immemorial.

Nature has always fascinated artists toward its par anomic beauty. .

Only the innocent-artist heart knows the beauty of starry nights, high mountains or deep valley or the simple everyday phenomenon like rising and setting of Sun and moon, cool breeze.

This search for grandness and freedom pulls the artist heart into the lap of mountains.

It sees nature as a great artist rather than something which is hiding scientific secrets as rules and law of life and appreciates all its beautiful creations!

This super creation of nature is amazing!

Shine of day, darkness of night, rising and setting sun and moon, twinkling stars in darkness of night, such an amazing range of wilderness in animal world-small and big, creeping and flying, weird and horrible!

Our minds go in awe at this amazing piece-of-art that our world on earth is.

We adore beauty even if it is missing in our lives but that just increases our yearning of beauty further more!

So we too should revive and reinstate this tasteful sense of art in our lives and should make it an experience that is rich in the sense of taste and beauty here on this planet Earth!