The Mesmerizing Beauty of Art
Art is considered as the product of the expressive and creative mind of an artist. It is a sort of craft that abides with the rules of aesthetics and conveys a significant message to the emotions of the persons appreciating its beauty. It is the expression and production of imaginary concepts into a tangible object with the intention of providing an emotional connection between the artist and the audience. It is appealing, it is magnificent, and it is a beauty to witness. That is what art wants to express. It provides a channel of artistic expression and makes the world a lot more beautiful and meaningful.
Artists all around the world use their brilliant skills and an enormous amount of imagination to create wonderful works of art. Being a genuine artist, it actually takes a lot of skill and craftiness. Artists are born and they are not made but a person with a lot of potential to become a successful artist can be molded and refined to maximize his or her potentials to the fullest. Of course, before an artist begins creating a work of art, a certain sense of inspiration is needed. It may come in the form of romantic love by a partner, a support system provided by the family, or perhaps as simple as an inspiration brought about by a feeling of patriotism to one’s own country. The source of inspiration actually varies from different artists, but it is a certainty that inspiration is needed in order to spark the innate artistic fire of an artist.
With all the beautiful things that art expresses to its audience, it leaves us an interesting question, what are the purposes of creating a work of art? Considering that art is such a broad term, and it is subdivided into many different disciplines, the purposes of its creation are most likely very wide in scope. This brings us to a conclusion that the purpose of art is highly unique and the reasons behind its creation are rooted in many reasons.
In a general sense, art is created for expressing an artist’s creative imagination. The artist can express his feelings, thoughts, and ideas through his works and allow the audience to connect with the emotion. Art is also created for providing a symbolic function. Art is vastly used by many cultures all around the globe as decorations and as a source of artistic outlet. Some cultures create a work of art that reflects about their rich and colorful history. Most of the time their works are associated with how they live life in the society and how they view life in general at the level of meaning of their culture. Furthermore, art also serves as a tool in communicating to the world. Some artists create a work of art speaking to the world as a living organism capable of causing destruction if not treated fairly. These types of artists use Earth and nature as subjects of his creation.
Other purposes of art are based on the intention of bringing about change to other people and in the society, whether it is signifying a change in political reform, a change addressing a particular person’s frame of mind on how he or she views life or perhaps a change addressing to people’s behavior in the society in relation to the current situation of Mother Earth. On the other hand, art also serves as a source of entertainment. Any audience having the chance to personally witness a magnificent work of art is indeed very inspiring and at the same time very relaxing to the mind. This is the main purpose why there are art collectors around the world collecting works of art by famous artists sold at overwhelming prices. This is also the reason why the industry of media vastly uses art as the means of entertainment. The more famous the artist, the more expensive is the price value of that particular work of art. Art also holds a purpose of sparking a political propaganda. As a matter of fact, it has already been used by many artists from different countries in subtly influencing the opinions of the individuals towards the people in the government holding political power.
Therefore, art serves many purposes depending on how it is used by the artist. This simply denotes that art is vastly used, it is used for different purposes, and it is, without a doubt, an expression of creative thinking by an artist presented in a manner that is associated with aesthetics.
Cubism
BREAK is never a good word. A broken glass, a broken heart. Pieces that do not make any sense when on their own.
Two people changed that though, encapsulated in one word–cubism.
Art used to imitate life and is a depiction of actual nature.
But not when Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque started to revolutionize art in the development known as modern art. Central to this, is cubism.
It is called cubism, not necessarily because cubes are prominent in this mode of art. It is not the shape, but the manner. Albeit, the name was derived after an artist known as Matisse, described Picasso’s first cubist work as “with little cubes.”
Cubism is defined by fragments of geometrical shapes.
Each part of the art piece is magnified through the shaped fragment that it has been presented in.
Cubism was born in the 20th century.
It was a movement that defied the more popular art that spreads the nature and life on the canvass. Where what one sees in the real world is planted on a rectangular frame.
While Picasso was a Spaniard, this form of art was created in Paris, France between 1907 and 1914.
It became the most influential art style of that generation. A novice and revolutionary design.
Biographers would imply that Picasso had become unhappy in his home country at the turn of the 19th century. That was when he discovered inspiration in Paris. A new place, for a new kind of art.
If cubism was a clan, the patriarch would be Les Demoiselles Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon). It was Picasso’s 1906 creation that confused many, but which Braque understood fairly well. Braque was working on a similar technique.
The painting was controversial in two levels–because it was a painting of women on the street of Avignon where brothels are popular, and because of the then unconventionally manner by which it was presented.
Picasso, a Spaniard, and Braque, a French, stuck up a partnership and developed the cubist art movement in Paris.
The movement though slowly inched its way to America, Holland, Germany, Russia, Italy and England.
Picasso and Braque wanted to show multiple views of the subject in a single canvass. Each magnified and with a personality of its own.
With the public referring to the cubist art came the term analytical cubism.
The latter was also in consonance with the analytic approach a viewer has to possess as the cubist movement progressed.
Cubist art became less discernible. One has to study the blocks by which the entire subject is presented on, to the point of telepathically moving the blocks to fit an understandable form.
Around 1910 to 1912, the works of Picasso and Braque became very abstract that high mode of analysis was wanting of an observer.
Between those years was also the first cubist exhibit of Picasso and Braque in Amsterdam, what one may call the most liberal city in the planet.
Picasso was born on Oct. 25, 1881 in Malaga, Spain but died in Mougins, France on Oct. 25, 1881. It was in France where he made his mark in history, particularly in art, so it was fitting that he died there.
It was no surprise that Picasso ventured into art because his father was a professor at drawing. Picasso became his father’s student at age 10.
Braque had a more or less the same story. He took up after his father. Only, Braque’s father was a house painter and Braque apprenticed for him for a while, until the cubist decided to study painting as a fine art.
Braque was born on May 13, 1882 near Paris in France and died in Paris on Aug. 31, 1963.