{"id":13,"date":"2021-12-10T00:35:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T00:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2021-12-15T10:45:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T05:15:01","slug":"on-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/art\/on-art\/","title":{"rendered":"On Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Art is deeply personal to me. I want my&nbsp;life&nbsp;to be surrounded with&nbsp;art<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For now, I\u2019d view art making as a personal pursuit. As a&nbsp;therapy. Or as a way a child would approach. With deep involvement. Art for the sake of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This might seem self-centered. However, that\u2019s how I can set out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want to create art for myself. This is not meant to appease anyone. This will hang on my wall for whatever time it takes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is art?<br>What makes art good?<br>What adds meaning to art?<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Art should be democratic and accessible to everyone.<br>Greatest art is when it can communicate the immense wisdom in an instant.<br>Art should be functional. If no body understands it, then it is not effective art.<br>Art should have a soul in it. It should reflect the immense beauty of nether world.<br>Art is not for art\u2019s sake. Art has a higher purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Art should not be ugly and morbid, unless there is a higher intention.<br>Art should not shy away from exploring the painful<br>Art can wound us and open us from the inside.<br>Art can be therapeutic and edifying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Art should not cause malice.<br>Art should reflect the&nbsp;truth,&nbsp;beauty&nbsp;and&nbsp;goodness.<br>Art is forever.<br>Art points to the depths of eternal truths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Art doesn\u2019t have to appeal to everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Art is the release of the innermost thoughts, desires, anguish, human connections, acceptance of mortality,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Art is a way to communicate to others things which are way subtle to convey otherwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The greatest work of art comes from wrestling with the void, facing it instead of scrambling to make it go away.&nbsp;Artist&nbsp;works quietly in the corner. They turn their inner turmoil into the product. The only relationship between work and chatter is that one kills the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Art is an axe for the frozen sea inside us. <\/p><cite><p>Franz Kafka<\/p><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Art should be democratic and accessible to everyone.<br>Greatest art is when it can communicate the immense wisdom in an instant.<br>Art should be functional. If no body understands it, then it is not effective art.<br>Art should have a soul in it. It should reflect the immense beauty of nether world.<br>Art is not for art\u2019s sake. Art has a higher purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Art should not be ugly and morbid, unless there is a higher intention.<br>Art should not shy away from exploring the painful<br>Art can wound us and open us from the inside.<br>Art can be therapeutic and edifying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art is deeply personal to me. 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This will hang on my wall for whatever time it takes.<\/p>\n<p>What is art?<br \/>\nWhat makes art good?<br \/>\nWhat adds meaning to art?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10,11],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-thesis","tag-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeevanjonas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}