1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,640 Good morning everyone. I just briefly wanted to discuss the art for all art 2 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:10,640 students, artists out there who might be listening to this. Welcome to my 3 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:17,340 podcast. This is describing just six points of how art can be viewed as, how 4 00:00:17,340 --> 00:00:23,380 you can take it and improvise it as, what is there available for you to work 5 00:00:23,380 --> 00:00:31,420 with and what is art really? Just six points. So here we go. Number one, art is 6 00:00:31,420 --> 00:00:37,300 meaningless yet reflects the hidden side, the mystic side of life, something 7 00:00:37,300 --> 00:00:42,180 that mind does not understand yet the heart does. Now what do I mean by this 8 00:00:42,180 --> 00:00:49,300 briefly? The idea that you need a meaning out of something in life, the idea 9 00:00:49,300 --> 00:00:52,780 that you want meanings out of your artwork, whatever it is that you are 10 00:00:52,780 --> 00:01:00,340 producing, a sound, a music, a piece of painting, clothing, architectures or maybe 11 00:01:00,340 --> 00:01:06,220 even jewelry, any kind of art that you can conceive of. If you're trying to 12 00:01:06,220 --> 00:01:10,420 look for meaning in that, it's pretty meaningless. You're just expressing 13 00:01:10,420 --> 00:01:16,540 emotion. What searches in you for meaning is the mind, it is not your heart. And 14 00:01:16,540 --> 00:01:24,980 art is a heart-driven exercise. It's a heart-driven effort by humans to 15 00:01:24,980 --> 00:01:31,020 produce something to make connection. That's what art is. That's number one. 16 00:01:31,020 --> 00:01:38,060 Point number two is art is transformative when you touch it. The 17 00:01:38,060 --> 00:01:42,180 venous side and what I mean by this even speaking from the point of view of 18 00:01:42,180 --> 00:01:48,740 Vedic astrology, venous is transformative. It is transformative through death and 19 00:01:48,740 --> 00:01:55,300 rebirth and what this means essentially is something has to leave, the old energy 20 00:01:55,300 --> 00:02:00,380 has to leave before the new energy comes into any human being also. So if 21 00:02:00,380 --> 00:02:05,060 you're creating art, if you're an artist, you should remember this. It requires a 22 00:02:05,060 --> 00:02:11,340 certain boldness of your heart expression to be an artist of any kind, 23 00:02:11,340 --> 00:02:17,660 beat music, any form of art that you can think of. It requires a boldness of your 24 00:02:17,660 --> 00:02:22,540 heart. Most people are not bold in their expression of their heart energy. They're 25 00:02:22,540 --> 00:02:27,540 very expressive in terms of mind but that won't serve much. Mind only goes so far. 26 00:02:27,540 --> 00:02:33,740 The creation itself is built from the heart energy, not from the mind energy. 27 00:02:33,740 --> 00:02:40,700 Number three, the art is reflective. Any form of art is reflective both of light 28 00:02:40,700 --> 00:02:46,620 and shadow side of human beings. Both in the artist, within the artist as well as 29 00:02:46,620 --> 00:02:50,580 the current times the artist lives in and we have seen this through the history. 30 00:02:50,580 --> 00:02:54,980 We have seen this in the history of all old civilizations like the Indian 31 00:02:54,980 --> 00:03:01,220 civilization, like the Renaissance of the European system, the European countries 32 00:03:01,220 --> 00:03:08,220 and artists that they produced like Mozart, like Picasso, Pablo and so on. So 33 00:03:08,220 --> 00:03:13,460 art is very transformative and reflective at the same time. You can 34 00:03:13,460 --> 00:03:17,940 reflect both the light side and the shadow side of the human being. It can 35 00:03:17,940 --> 00:03:23,300 go both ways. This is the powerful attribute of any art, form, music, 36 00:03:23,300 --> 00:03:29,660 painting, sculptures, architecture and so on. Number four, art is influential in 37 00:03:29,660 --> 00:03:35,580 heart and therefore to the mind to all those who touch it. Participation itself 38 00:03:35,580 --> 00:03:40,460 is transformation. If you participate in an art form, if you look at a painting, if 39 00:03:40,460 --> 00:03:44,500 you listen to a piece of music, it is transforming you, there is no 40 00:03:44,500 --> 00:03:49,860 option available there. It is transformative whether you think of 41 00:03:49,860 --> 00:03:55,980 it or not. Its influence goes from the heart to the mind one way, art goes from 42 00:03:55,980 --> 00:04:01,660 heart to the mind not the other way around. That form is most transformative in 43 00:04:01,660 --> 00:04:08,060 nature to human beings and to the civilization. Okay, think of this, heart 44 00:04:08,060 --> 00:04:13,500 to the mind only. That's what the direction of the art and artist should 45 00:04:13,500 --> 00:04:19,700 be because in the meaningless of life itself is the deeper meaning of life 46 00:04:19,700 --> 00:04:27,020 itself. This is what art creates. Number five, art is powerfully 47 00:04:27,020 --> 00:04:32,940 recreative of a civilization, the way of living and loving in a society when 48 00:04:32,940 --> 00:04:37,540 combined with architecture and science. When art is combined with science, we have 49 00:04:37,540 --> 00:04:43,140 magnificent pieces of sculpture, temples. Let it be the Roman architecture, let it be 50 00:04:43,140 --> 00:04:47,060 the Indian architecture of temples. You see this everywhere even in the past 51 00:04:47,060 --> 00:04:52,020 civilizations, the kings and the emperors, beyond the conquering and plundering 52 00:04:52,020 --> 00:04:57,380 that went on, beyond all of that, beyond the sense of power, they wanted to create 53 00:04:57,380 --> 00:05:02,700 something beautiful even if it is just for an egotistical purpose of being 54 00:05:02,700 --> 00:05:10,140 remembered by. But they wanted to create an art form, something that is reflective 55 00:05:10,140 --> 00:05:16,140 of the grandeur of human heart itself, the expression, like I said, the boldness of 56 00:05:16,140 --> 00:05:22,180 expression of human heart. You need to be bold to express art, be bold in your 57 00:05:22,180 --> 00:05:30,340 expression as an artist and then you will shine. Number six, art and aesthetics 58 00:05:30,340 --> 00:05:34,900 defines a culture and a civilized society in the heart centeredness of a 59 00:05:34,900 --> 00:05:39,140 group of people. A society or a civilization or a country or nation is 60 00:05:39,140 --> 00:05:46,060 nothing but the group of people. Now it becomes defining for a culture and it 61 00:05:46,060 --> 00:05:50,100 defines the depth of culture or society, doesn't matter which part of the world. 62 00:05:50,100 --> 00:05:55,540 It defines the depth of culture and civilization if there are more artistic 63 00:05:55,540 --> 00:06:01,980 people there, if the more art is evolved there. When they have learned to combine 64 00:06:01,980 --> 00:06:06,540 sacred geometry, when they have learned to combine the mystical forces that 65 00:06:06,540 --> 00:06:13,460 define life energy into their art form, this is also shown in the Tantra and 66 00:06:13,460 --> 00:06:22,340 Yantra forms in India. Everything is structured around beauty. Beauty is the 67 00:06:22,340 --> 00:06:28,620 essence of how this whole creation is built. If it was just the mind, the heart 68 00:06:28,620 --> 00:06:33,020 would have no place in it and everything will soon pretty much be dead. 69 00:06:33,020 --> 00:06:41,820 Right? So think of the six points, I'll leave you with this much and be a good 70 00:06:41,820 --> 00:06:46,660 artist. Be bold in expression, be bold in your expression of whatever it is that 71 00:06:46,660 --> 00:06:53,180 you are trying to create as a film, as a piece of music, as playing an instrument, 72 00:06:53,180 --> 00:06:59,860 writing a book, poetry, blog, anything that you might be doing. Be bold in the 73 00:06:59,860 --> 00:07:06,900 expression. Don't be hesitant in evaluating your art form with the mind. 74 00:07:06,900 --> 00:07:12,180 The mind cannot understand the heart, the heart can understand the mind however. 75 00:07:12,180 --> 00:07:40,740 There's a point for you to think about. Take care, be safe and have a great day.