Art

Characterized by perception, consciousness, self-awareness, and volition, human intelligence can be defined as an intellectual capacity of a human being to learn, understand, conceive, and implement. Based on thoughts and experiences, humans develop their intelligence and use the same as a key element in decision-making, problem-solving and in many other …

Art is something that stimulates an individual’s thoughts, emotions, beliefs, and ideas through the senses. Recently, I came across Angappan or as many call him AG, who made me realize how art existed but not in the way it should in the lives of people. People don’t appreciate art, they …

Art is beautiful. Artists must be beautiful. What you’re reading isn’t a wisecrack by a well established smartass artist, but a slogan performance artist Marina Abramovic repeats all the while brushing her hair vehemently (rooting out almost a thousand hair follicles in the process) for a period of 60 minutes. …

Edward Munch was asked one day, “What made you try and paint ‘The scream’?” “A scarlet sunset, so intensely crimson, The sky itself was a frenzied dream.” The canvas waited, dried and cold, In pastels and in oils bedraped. Waited to answer why it really screamed, Why horror had its …

“Art should comfort the disturbed  and disturb the comfortable.” A lot of artists these days attempt to push the limits and contort the very definitions of art. Picture this, you are an art critc in the early 70’s. You have decided to attend a performance art piece by a woman …

“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here” Born into the living arms of his parents, unbaptized and out of pure lust. He loved the man and was locked and whipped for it with shouts of “your love is not love!” She’d find a new place to eat every day. This …

There are people who see the world as a canvas and then they paint the world with emotions, colours, moves and words. Every time you see a person doing that you call him an artist. Indeed he is an artist because he makes you see what you usually fail to …

When you put on your earphones, plug into a song and feel the world around you dissolve into nothingness, you need to understand that the notes, tunes, rhythms and vibrations that are entering your ears are more than just sounds that cause changes in the way the chemicals in your …

What does it mean to be an artist? Well, this is what Terence McKenna had to say about artists, “The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey …

Have you ever tried to observe your thoughts and the constant flow of these voices in your head, sometimes loud and daunting, while sometimes they are almost negligible in volume. The one thing you need to do in order to observe your thoughts is to look at them as if …