For all that can be said, through all the trials and tears, truly we have lived no ordinary life as the history of civilizations often remind us through the form of art.
There are those of us in society that question the value of a blob of jam plastered on the wall as a spectacle as if meaning to say something, to reach down into our souls and search for answers to the thousand perplexities that riddle human life on a daily basis.
There are those of us in society that question the value of a blob of jam plastered on the wall as a spectacle as if meaning to say something, to reach down into our souls and search for answers to the thousand perplexities that riddle human life on a daily basis.
At times great men have been gone through more than their fair share of persecution for their ideas. But from the cauldron of fire came the birth of reason and the age of Enlightenment that unfettered men's minds to explore new thoughts and angles on the meaning of life. Within that great expansion that saw a medieval era become a modern age art has played a very powerful
role in helping to shape men's minds because art in itself is a medium that is emotionally evocative and it is men's emotions that leads to all kinds of fields of inquiry in the search for answers in our universe. To say that a Newton or Einstein would not be moved by Mona Lisa would be tantamount of the denial of our very existence for their is no life that we could possibly know of without the need for expression of our feelings and our reasons. Ill-equipped would be our lives would be attempt to constrict and prohibit our emotions and the need to capture a scene of the sky or land and water on canvas, in oils or in ink or water color or whatever medium we can to convey the image that had driven us to share with others. Thus art not only becomes a medium of expression but also an ingredient for personal satisfaction when an onlooker can gaze over a painting and feel the warmth of tranquility seeping into the mind, having searched for answers in a painting and found some reason to feel contentment.
Ultimately the main value of art today becomes it's timelessness hence its endearing value in the eyes of those that seek to obtain the work of a master that flourished in ages long since gone but whose memories are vividly recalled through the creations on canvas or in stone. There can only be one Rembrandt,
a single Turner, an only Picasso to tell the stories that they had lived through their eyes and whose sentiments are forever captured in art to remember. Therein, lies the value of art today in its function to remind us of the ideas of old and the ideas of the new today. Long gone are the days when an individual spirit may need to take the dreaded Hemlock and lay down his life for fear of corrupting the youth. Past but not forgotten are the times when forced recantation could mainstay a dogma to hold back the progress of human thought as times would change and needs would differ. The world of art is indeed a fascinating landscape of mankind and the expression of human passion. The social scientist Jacob Bronowoski b. 1908 d. 1974, in his book 'The Ascent of Man', wrote as follows: "Man has also become an architect of his environment, but he does not command forces as powerful as those of nature". Yet what level of genius that a JMW Turner could look into the face of a storm and capture that very moment of violent squall and fear as light and shadow and mastery of color and brush stroke would eloquently bring to life the dread of the moment. Man indeed truly is the architect of his environment and architect of such evocative pieces of art that would terrify the mortal soul or bring forth such tears of joy in the presence of the Divine.
role in helping to shape men's minds because art in itself is a medium that is emotionally evocative and it is men's emotions that leads to all kinds of fields of inquiry in the search for answers in our universe. To say that a Newton or Einstein would not be moved by Mona Lisa would be tantamount of the denial of our very existence for their is no life that we could possibly know of without the need for expression of our feelings and our reasons. Ill-equipped would be our lives would be attempt to constrict and prohibit our emotions and the need to capture a scene of the sky or land and water on canvas, in oils or in ink or water color or whatever medium we can to convey the image that had driven us to share with others. Thus art not only becomes a medium of expression but also an ingredient for personal satisfaction when an onlooker can gaze over a painting and feel the warmth of tranquility seeping into the mind, having searched for answers in a painting and found some reason to feel contentment.Ultimately the main value of art today becomes it's timelessness hence its endearing value in the eyes of those that seek to obtain the work of a master that flourished in ages long since gone but whose memories are vividly recalled through the creations on canvas or in stone. There can only be one Rembrandt,
a single Turner, an only Picasso to tell the stories that they had lived through their eyes and whose sentiments are forever captured in art to remember. Therein, lies the value of art today in its function to remind us of the ideas of old and the ideas of the new today. Long gone are the days when an individual spirit may need to take the dreaded Hemlock and lay down his life for fear of corrupting the youth. Past but not forgotten are the times when forced recantation could mainstay a dogma to hold back the progress of human thought as times would change and needs would differ. The world of art is indeed a fascinating landscape of mankind and the expression of human passion. The social scientist Jacob Bronowoski b. 1908 d. 1974, in his book 'The Ascent of Man', wrote as follows: "Man has also become an architect of his environment, but he does not command forces as powerful as those of nature". Yet what level of genius that a JMW Turner could look into the face of a storm and capture that very moment of violent squall and fear as light and shadow and mastery of color and brush stroke would eloquently bring to life the dread of the moment. Man indeed truly is the architect of his environment and architect of such evocative pieces of art that would terrify the mortal soul or bring forth such tears of joy in the presence of the Divine.
We have lived no ordinary life in spite our foibles; an art has been at the forefront of the story of civilization to render the shape of our very humanity.
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See also - https://www.pinterest.com/myartmusings/
For those readers that may enjoy a decent coffee anecdote or tale then please turn to my other blog for some interesting reading and my coffee narrative - http://thegenteelworldofcoffee.blogspot.com/
Thank you,
Yours sincerely,
Pieter Bergli - art collector, cafe enthusiast and bon vivant!
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