So Why Art?

in #life6 years ago (edited)

"The Real meaning of Art"

One comment in my last post cited the ‘real meaning of art’. I certainly don't know the real meaning of art, if there is one. :) Personally, I think of my brand of artsy madness as 'escapist self-expression.'

I escape into my head, then I draw what I see. Sometimes it’s girls (yes it's digital)
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Sometimes monsters
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Other times it’s CENSORED with CENSORED CENSORED which is not to say that I CENSORED CENSORED CENSORED, or even tried CENSORED. Anyway, CENSORED.

But sometimes I escape physically to somewhere else, sit on a stone, and draw what I see in my sketchbook. I use a 9"x12" sketchbook usually, and just a fine point ink pen. In one of my next posts I’ll try and share the process of one of these.

For now though I’d like to say that I can drive very fast if need be, but I much prefer not to.

My friend Joe provided an unscripted and vigorous end to this little travel story of mine, and I couldn’t thank him enough for it because for the first time, I just happened to be making a silly little travel video. This happened in Rovinj, Croatia, which is in Istria in the west. I’ve spent nearly 4 months in total in Croatia over several visits, so I know a few things about it.

1.That Dubrovnik gets slightly more expensive every time. Did you go there last month? Good! Well, it just got more expensive now. But when I drew this, and before the Lannisters filmed Kings Landing there, it was a lot cheaper. But it’s still beautiful!
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2.That Rakija, their brandy, should be consumed with great joy and also great care. Imagine your brain is an egg, and Rakija is a fist around it. One night in 2012, after enough of those, the fist shut. Then I spent about 10 minutes writing this note to my host, and another 4 minutes trying to slip it under their door.
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3.That there’s a Tim Hortens (not a typo) in Zadar. How I found it doesn’t matter (really, don’t ask), but to the fundamentalist Canadians who understand the gravity of this, listen to me: there is nothing for you there. You will find no donuts there. You will find a little bit of coffee in very, very small cups, and you will find rakija (see note above).
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4.That many cities have a Stari Grad, which means ‘old town’, the oldest part of the city. But on Hvar island, there’s a whole town called Stari Grad, because it’s one of the oldest towns in Croatia. And here on one side of the narrow bay is a restaurant owned by a Czech lady, which used to be a quarantine house several centuries ago. She told me that a ship approaching the bay would be forced to stop there, its occupants kept in the quarantine house for some time and observed for symptoms of mild ailments like the plague. They would then be allowed passage into town if they appeared healthy. How did they stop the ships, you say? An underwater chain the entire width of the bay of course. How would you do it?0113_stariGradSketches-1.jpg

You can actually find the various centuries of stone work if you look carefully, the newest addition being the bike with the child seat, c. 2011.

Fun note: I always start a study like this one by staring at the subject and at the page for a while and imagining I've already drawn it, which might sound a bit like having sex just by looking at a woman, but anyway. I imagine its placement, and I measure every element on the blank page in my head (I'm using ink, so I can't make any rough marks). Then I pick a corner (if it's architecture, it's always a corner - they're easier to check against) and start.

On this particular one I picked the corner of the right window. I drew the window and its window frames entirely, then I cursed and turned the page and started again. I realized the lampshade on the far left wouldn't fit the page.

But that was a different trip! We were talking about Joe. Joe who made me drive faster than I like.

(Apologies, the video was shot on phone and for phone, so its vertical. Yeah, it’s slowly becoming a thing!)

In case you missed them, here's my first post and second post :)

Take care and Keep it Steeming :)

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i love art but i don't have art skills but you share this post with us thank you for that.

Loving art is more than enough, not many people do it.

@tayyabhussain1 I'm happy you enjoyed the post! @vinilobabe indeed! I even appreciate it when people love art because not all people do.

Very good posting. Thanks.

The girl is very beautiful and sexy!

@craftsman252 Thanks! She is, isn't she? Plenty more in my head. You should take a trip in there one day hehehehe.

For some people art is life and for other it is the way how they see world or express it in their mind.
There are some things which you can't say in front of everyone or you can't just use words to express them as words are not enough for that so they draw it.
I always say, art is the most beautiful thing.

Really well said!

Workmanship can influence its observers from multiple points of view, so it isn't amazing to see diverse responses to a similar bit of work. In any case, in the event that we are to characterize what genuine workmanship is, it is something which the craftsman makes for his own fulfillment, without contemplating what the world would say in regards to it. In the meantime, genuine workmanship is something that ought to have the capacity to associate the observer with the general vision of the craftsman, despite the fact that the translation won't not be right on target. No big surprise, Don Ellis once stated, "To be a genuine craftsman you need to play the way you feel - not the way others figure you should feel".

MIC DROP! Exactly how I feel about creating things :) Nice one, @mirzaaliimran. Very very true.

@suf1an. That's a very nice way of saying it, your first sentence. And, I once wrote a book, and one chapter I didn't know how to write, so I drew it instead. It turned out to be the best idea!
Thanks for commenting!

O really? Wow, I didn't know that. Thank you so much.

suf1an (56) good job

Very good art work.

Thank you, @leggy23! Happy you like it!

very beautiful life with art, I love it

It is @ijoel. I'm glad you like it, thank you!

Very beautiful drawings, back ground and history. I like the harbor and boats. Art is free for interpretation and helps others see one's view of the world. Art is beautiful because there is nothing wrong or right!

Thank you! I'm glad you like them. Yeah, no wrong or right with art. Isn't that interesting, how similar it is to 'play'? :)

for me the real meaning of art is beauty and concept

Could be, @teenovision! Could be :) Thanks for checking it out!

Very unusually beautiful!You have talent @oneminja !I wish you new masterpieces and good luck!

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Nice work!

In my opinion "ART" should in a way reflect the momentum in time in which the artist lives.

That means that art that meets this criterion, will last a long time, because it has a historical meaning that way. It wil become a part of the culture of that particular moment in time, and become ART!

Why do we consider the works of Andy Warhol as ART?
I think because it reflects exactly the culture of that era; the consumer society.
Even if he paints ( or rather let others paint it ) just allready existing soup can pictures, it is considered ART.
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In the same period, the 1960's there were probably 1000's of people painting landscapes in a very traditional way, with great craftsmanship.
Paintings that Andy Warhol could not make at all.
Oil paintings, water color etcetera.
Probably 99,9% of these paintings ( which are the result of technically superior crafmanship, made by people who completed one or more art academies) are not considered "ART".
They are nice decorative paintings, decorating walls in houses.
People like these paintings a lot, but they do not represent the culture of the moment.

But when these painters would have painted something that had to do with the culture of that moment in time, it would be much more meaningful as a reflection of the culture and made a change to be considered as ART later on.

Art is cool... and I love your expressions.

Thank you, @arnel! I'm glad you like them.

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