Good morning everyone. I just briefly wanted to discuss the art for all art
students, artists out there who might be listening to this. Welcome to my
podcast. This is describing just six points of how art can be viewed as, how
you can take it and improvise it as, what is there available for you to work
with and what is art really? Just six points. So here we go. Number one, art is
meaningless yet reflects the hidden side, the mystic side of life, something
that mind does not understand yet the heart does. Now what do I mean by this
briefly? The idea that you need a meaning out of something in life, the idea
that you want meanings out of your artwork, whatever it is that you are
producing, a sound, a music, a piece of painting, clothing, architectures or maybe
even jewelry, any kind of art that you can conceive of. If you're trying to
look for meaning in that, it's pretty meaningless. You're just expressing
emotion. What searches in you for meaning is the mind, it is not your heart. And
art is a heart-driven exercise. It's a heart-driven effort by humans to
produce something to make connection. That's what art is. That's number one.
Point number two is art is transformative when you touch it. The
venous side and what I mean by this even speaking from the point of view of
Vedic astrology, venous is transformative. It is transformative through death and
rebirth and what this means essentially is something has to leave, the old energy
has to leave before the new energy comes into any human being also. So if
you're creating art, if you're an artist, you should remember this. It requires a
certain boldness of your heart expression to be an artist of any kind,
beat music, any form of art that you can think of. It requires a boldness of your
heart. Most people are not bold in their expression of their heart energy. They're
very expressive in terms of mind but that won't serve much. Mind only goes so far.
The creation itself is built from the heart energy, not from the mind energy.
Number three, the art is reflective. Any form of art is reflective both of light
and shadow side of human beings. Both in the artist, within the artist as well as
the current times the artist lives in and we have seen this through the history.
We have seen this in the history of all old civilizations like the Indian
civilization, like the Renaissance of the European system, the European countries
and artists that they produced like Mozart, like Picasso, Pablo and so on. So
art is very transformative and reflective at the same time. You can
reflect both the light side and the shadow side of the human being. It can
go both ways. This is the powerful attribute of any art, form, music,
painting, sculptures, architecture and so on. Number four, art is influential in
heart and therefore to the mind to all those who touch it. Participation itself
is transformation. If you participate in an art form, if you look at a painting, if
you listen to a piece of music, it is transforming you, there is no
option available there. It is transformative whether you think of
it or not. Its influence goes from the heart to the mind one way, art goes from
heart to the mind not the other way around. That form is most transformative in
nature to human beings and to the civilization. Okay, think of this, heart
to the mind only. That's what the direction of the art and artist should
be because in the meaningless of life itself is the deeper meaning of life
itself. This is what art creates. Number five, art is powerfully
recreative of a civilization, the way of living and loving in a society when
combined with architecture and science. When art is combined with science, we have
magnificent pieces of sculpture, temples. Let it be the Roman architecture, let it be
the Indian architecture of temples. You see this everywhere even in the past
civilizations, the kings and the emperors, beyond the conquering and plundering
that went on, beyond all of that, beyond the sense of power, they wanted to create
something beautiful even if it is just for an egotistical purpose of being
remembered by. But they wanted to create an art form, something that is reflective
of the grandeur of human heart itself, the expression, like I said, the boldness of
expression of human heart. You need to be bold to express art, be bold in your
expression as an artist and then you will shine. Number six, art and aesthetics
defines a culture and a civilized society in the heart centeredness of a
group of people. A society or a civilization or a country or nation is
nothing but the group of people. Now it becomes defining for a culture and it
defines the depth of culture or society, doesn't matter which part of the world.
It defines the depth of culture and civilization if there are more artistic
people there, if the more art is evolved there. When they have learned to combine
sacred geometry, when they have learned to combine the mystical forces that
define life energy into their art form, this is also shown in the Tantra and
Yantra forms in India. Everything is structured around beauty. Beauty is the
essence of how this whole creation is built. If it was just the mind, the heart
would have no place in it and everything will soon pretty much be dead.
Right? So think of the six points, I'll leave you with this much and be a good
artist. Be bold in expression, be bold in your expression of whatever it is that
you are trying to create as a film, as a piece of music, as playing an instrument,
writing a book, poetry, blog, anything that you might be doing. Be bold in the
expression. Don't be hesitant in evaluating your art form with the mind.
The mind cannot understand the heart, the heart can understand the mind however.
There's a point for you to think about. Take care, be safe and have a great day.