“Just as a person can accept love only in direct proportion to their own ability to love, a receiver of art will be nourished by it aesthetically, intellectually, philosophically, and spiritually as much as they have the capacity to react to, relate to, and be inspired by it--either for a moment's pleasure or to reform themselves into a better human beings.”
By a Random Awesome Anonymous Guy!
The Art Dubai Exhibition Starts today, 17th March – 20th March 2010… This blog is basically an after effect of the various different exhibitions and art displays that I have been very fortunate enough to visit and has been triggered right now, thanks to the Art Dubai… ART has not always been what we think it is today, It was very different! An object that’s is regarded as Art today may not have been perceived as such when it was first made, nor was the person who made it NECESSARILY regarded as an artist.
All of us… Yes… ALL… continue to buy art for art’s sake and especially the ones that we feel has some sort of EFFECT on us, and that right there is I believe the true nature of art; it affects people on an emotional level, and that is what makes it truly great. I always have a tendency to buy arty pieces… any thing from chunky jewellery to a random rock…. Much to my Ma’s dismay… But art isn’t just to add aesthetic value to places… its quite Useful as well…
As far as art being useful you drive or ride in it every day!! You make coffee in it and you wear it! All the stuff that we buy on a daily basis had all gone through one design phase or another. They all have to look good and definitely function as well. Sudha Chandran has been one exceptionally influential person in my life; she had lost her leg in a horrific accident. How pathetic it might have been for her, if not for the prosthetic leg?? Imagine a dancer not being able to dance… I being a keen dancer can actually get gooseflesh merely thinking about the probability… The prosthetic leg was designed by someone!!! The process of creating such items is quite similar as creating a painting or sculpture. Yes, I strongly believe that… I know it's not fine art but its still art at its basic terms.
Apart from being USEFUL, Art has other lesser known characteristics as well… Art is not psychotherapy, pure philosophy, nor the Vedas, so it cannot be expected to be a universal medicine or Cure… but I have read of some very iniquitous, brutal and vicious people who were intensely affected by beauty (Who isn’t??) and the Arts. Therefore Arts, in my opinion, in varying degrees can alter basic human temperaments. (Adolph Hitler was a patron of Arts and Literature. By the way, he is a decorated war hero! A vegetarian, he doesn't smoke, drinks just an occasional beer and has never cheated on his wife. :) so much for being a Villain.)
Most People often misunderstand what an artist is supposed to do. There Needs to be correction in the general perception of an artist and an artist needs to visualized as a person who is supposed to create situations you have NEVER seen before and develop imagination and take it to a level beyond what is possible, what the mind is able to imagine. They are meant to push you.
James Cameron Did JUST that n MORE!!
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