Art??
No no!!! I am no art critique. I am just a person who happen to think on what is art? Do artist imitate real life in their works and can it be a basis for historians to know the life style of people of the age, or is it vice versa?
Dictionary definition of art, "the making of objects, images, music, etc. that are beautiful or that express feelings"
Artistic people argue art is creativity. It is imagination at its best. I agree with them but then how can art depict life, for I don't think a copy of something already existing can be termed as art, where is the creativity.
As a wise man once said battles are won in the head first and then in the field, same is with everything we do. We think about something first and then do that its not vice versa; thinking something new is Art and hence we in our lives are constantly imitating art.
How many times we hear of people committing suicide because there hero in a novel did the same or how many times we see people trying to imitate shaktiman or for that matter any other hero. Why is it so? I guess nature in itself is incomplete it is constantly trying to achieve perfection, one way to do so is to try and do something which a person thinks is the pinnacle of everything, the desire to act God.
People might argue that what I am saying is purely limited to human beings, may be its only the human character not that of life in general or nature. I would like to disagree. So many things remain oblivious to the human eye until some famous artist brings its beauty to us. Nature as I said earlier is in itself incomplete, Art is our spirited protest, our gallant attempt to teach Nature her proper place. In doing so we give perfection to everything that exists in nature and that perfect picture of things is in our mind when we see something similar in nature and appreciate it.
I know not all can agree with me in fact few will, but I still cant help thinking that its nature which imitates art rather than art imitating Nature. Art does not show the us how people used to live in a particular age. It tells us how an artist envisaged them to live and life follows what is shown to it, hence creating an illusion beyond recognition.
Dictionary definition of art, "the making of objects, images, music, etc. that are beautiful or that express feelings"
Artistic people argue art is creativity. It is imagination at its best. I agree with them but then how can art depict life, for I don't think a copy of something already existing can be termed as art, where is the creativity.
As a wise man once said battles are won in the head first and then in the field, same is with everything we do. We think about something first and then do that its not vice versa; thinking something new is Art and hence we in our lives are constantly imitating art.
How many times we hear of people committing suicide because there hero in a novel did the same or how many times we see people trying to imitate shaktiman or for that matter any other hero. Why is it so? I guess nature in itself is incomplete it is constantly trying to achieve perfection, one way to do so is to try and do something which a person thinks is the pinnacle of everything, the desire to act God.
People might argue that what I am saying is purely limited to human beings, may be its only the human character not that of life in general or nature. I would like to disagree. So many things remain oblivious to the human eye until some famous artist brings its beauty to us. Nature as I said earlier is in itself incomplete, Art is our spirited protest, our gallant attempt to teach Nature her proper place. In doing so we give perfection to everything that exists in nature and that perfect picture of things is in our mind when we see something similar in nature and appreciate it.
I know not all can agree with me in fact few will, but I still cant help thinking that its nature which imitates art rather than art imitating Nature. Art does not show the us how people used to live in a particular age. It tells us how an artist envisaged them to live and life follows what is shown to it, hence creating an illusion beyond recognition.
posted by Siddharth at 3:57 AM
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