I really don't know what to write although I want to, I'm just looking at people's blogs and thinking what do they write all day long, all the time. Guess i'll never know, maybe i'm not a writer in a way that can write about the daily ups and downs I go through. So i design my blog, configure it here and there, added a few things and removed some, but it makes no difference in my boredom so i finally decided to write anything in here instead. So i'll just write away whatever's going through my mind right now.
I love weekends, i really do; but at time they get heavy on me, there are times that i don't know what to do, what to think or even when to think, this numbness in my head gets me really down. The sunlight coming through my window keeps reminding me that there's a lot yet to do. But what should I do? The question of my life! I like it when i'm on to something, i'm that sticky kinda guy who won't give up until he's through with THAT something, so i prefer challenges but they at times can be hard to find and even regretting at times. Should i fix the generator? Naaahhh! its winters, who needs fans on? nobody? oh well then i guess we're cool on this subject. Should I write something? Well Mr.Einstein you're already WRITING something! I think I should hang out with friends, but no, most of them have papers and some are sick while others gone somewhere, GOD this is so boring at times!
Last night i was watching some show on BBC, they were showing how the art evolved in America from cubism to abstract, there's this thing about abstract that is so indulging, it's wholly based on emotions and feelings and there's no realism in it, some even went on to draw PLAIN BLACK canvases, now one thinks what can it mean? Why would an artist capable of making some beautiful colorful patterns and emotions draw something as plain as this? A black painted canvas, that was all, nothing more or less to it. It didn't matter why they were black, where they were placed is all that mattered. They were 8 or maybe 9 in number, huge, tall and black. their length was more than their width which were hanged vertically in a church, the church was a "secular" one. So as the host entered it, there was a round hall where all these paintings were hanged, black..just plain black. One could see the brush strokes over the canvas, one could see that the painter wasn't joking, was very much serious about doing this. In churches there are usually paintings done on the windows and on the walls, paintings of Jesus, Mary or a cross maybe, you got the idea, but here there was nothing at all, the hall was just white and these black, tall canvases staring at you as you enter. There was no focus there, all the paintings were facing each other in a round hall, one could not decide where to look and what to look at when you enter. You could be spinning around in it all day. So why did the artist do it? What was the reason behind this? Well, the black paintings all over the hall were depicting equality, and they were placed in front of each other, which gave an idea of a mirror, meaning that those were actually mirrors not paintings, so one could see into them and see his/her own reflection in them. This really struck me, the thought and the intelligence that went into creating a black painted canvas is just unexplainable, this gave me a notion that its not the painting itself that explains the whole for you, its you who does it. I'm forgetting the name of the painter but he was some serious work! A sharp white line dividing a black painted canvas showed the power of an idea, the light into the dark, i really liked his work. Apart from that his paintings were all drips and splashes, he was known as "Jack the dripper", that should help you guys goggling him! A real piece of work!
It has always inspired me, the genius work of people, people who thinks outside the box, who looks at world from a different view, from an extraordinary eye. The paintings no matter how abstract they get, they always mean something, they are the emotions not the faces, the ideas, the real ideas, the sorrow and happiness, chaos and calm. Picasso was the inventor of "cubism", this is the type where figures are drawn and that takes you a step away from "realism" the kind which is real and looks real just like a picture. He once went to some museum where the art was sold in petty cash because it wasn't considered much of an art, it was from all around the world, it had those antique things in it which were not much of a show. he came across one of those "African masks" that were said to be an "anti-magic-and-ghosts" mask. Thats where he got an idea of making figures and discrete faces, pretty imaginative!
Any kind of an art is worth looking at because it explains life and the things around us so beautifully and so realistically, the artist actually takes time to draw, write or compose whatever s/he feels about it. If its the dead silent streets or the clapping, laughing, dancing or happy crowd, they all mean something and at times, they can mean a total opposite of what the artist is trying to show us, a dilemma is always there and that is the whole beauty of it, it challenges you to find out the answer yourself. And when you do find it out, things are not the same anymore because you get touched by the artist ho gave it so much time just make you realise the truth of things.
Well i hope I didn't got you people bored just like I am at the moment, but the fact is, i really don't know what to write in here, I'll keep you updated with my latest encounters with things like these or with things I think that should be known and pondered upon. Peace.
I love weekends, i really do; but at time they get heavy on me, there are times that i don't know what to do, what to think or even when to think, this numbness in my head gets me really down. The sunlight coming through my window keeps reminding me that there's a lot yet to do. But what should I do? The question of my life! I like it when i'm on to something, i'm that sticky kinda guy who won't give up until he's through with THAT something, so i prefer challenges but they at times can be hard to find and even regretting at times. Should i fix the generator? Naaahhh! its winters, who needs fans on? nobody? oh well then i guess we're cool on this subject. Should I write something? Well Mr.Einstein you're already WRITING something! I think I should hang out with friends, but no, most of them have papers and some are sick while others gone somewhere, GOD this is so boring at times!
Last night i was watching some show on BBC, they were showing how the art evolved in America from cubism to abstract, there's this thing about abstract that is so indulging, it's wholly based on emotions and feelings and there's no realism in it, some even went on to draw PLAIN BLACK canvases, now one thinks what can it mean? Why would an artist capable of making some beautiful colorful patterns and emotions draw something as plain as this? A black painted canvas, that was all, nothing more or less to it. It didn't matter why they were black, where they were placed is all that mattered. They were 8 or maybe 9 in number, huge, tall and black. their length was more than their width which were hanged vertically in a church, the church was a "secular" one. So as the host entered it, there was a round hall where all these paintings were hanged, black..just plain black. One could see the brush strokes over the canvas, one could see that the painter wasn't joking, was very much serious about doing this. In churches there are usually paintings done on the windows and on the walls, paintings of Jesus, Mary or a cross maybe, you got the idea, but here there was nothing at all, the hall was just white and these black, tall canvases staring at you as you enter. There was no focus there, all the paintings were facing each other in a round hall, one could not decide where to look and what to look at when you enter. You could be spinning around in it all day. So why did the artist do it? What was the reason behind this? Well, the black paintings all over the hall were depicting equality, and they were placed in front of each other, which gave an idea of a mirror, meaning that those were actually mirrors not paintings, so one could see into them and see his/her own reflection in them. This really struck me, the thought and the intelligence that went into creating a black painted canvas is just unexplainable, this gave me a notion that its not the painting itself that explains the whole for you, its you who does it. I'm forgetting the name of the painter but he was some serious work! A sharp white line dividing a black painted canvas showed the power of an idea, the light into the dark, i really liked his work. Apart from that his paintings were all drips and splashes, he was known as "Jack the dripper", that should help you guys goggling him! A real piece of work!
It has always inspired me, the genius work of people, people who thinks outside the box, who looks at world from a different view, from an extraordinary eye. The paintings no matter how abstract they get, they always mean something, they are the emotions not the faces, the ideas, the real ideas, the sorrow and happiness, chaos and calm. Picasso was the inventor of "cubism", this is the type where figures are drawn and that takes you a step away from "realism" the kind which is real and looks real just like a picture. He once went to some museum where the art was sold in petty cash because it wasn't considered much of an art, it was from all around the world, it had those antique things in it which were not much of a show. he came across one of those "African masks" that were said to be an "anti-magic-and-ghosts" mask. Thats where he got an idea of making figures and discrete faces, pretty imaginative!
Any kind of an art is worth looking at because it explains life and the things around us so beautifully and so realistically, the artist actually takes time to draw, write or compose whatever s/he feels about it. If its the dead silent streets or the clapping, laughing, dancing or happy crowd, they all mean something and at times, they can mean a total opposite of what the artist is trying to show us, a dilemma is always there and that is the whole beauty of it, it challenges you to find out the answer yourself. And when you do find it out, things are not the same anymore because you get touched by the artist ho gave it so much time just make you realise the truth of things.
Well i hope I didn't got you people bored just like I am at the moment, but the fact is, i really don't know what to write in here, I'll keep you updated with my latest encounters with things like these or with things I think that should be known and pondered upon. Peace.
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