The Art we feel!

The Art we feel! Modern Art is such a common term for the art you see around that it doesn’t make sense to many of us, isn’t it? We use it or hear it being said by people who see only colours on canvas or a subject that we don’t necessarily understand. But here’s the thing. Modern Art began in the 1860s and was a method of expressing your feelings on canvas. It does not tell you to look at a subject and impose the thought on you but rather makes you ‘feel’. It's literally going inwards to meet your thoughts and realise what your state of mind is. Pablo Picasso made his first cubism painting reducing the real human shapes and shades using only three solid forms: Cube, sphere and cone. Vincent Van Gogh was a painter who was happy painting landscapes that made him ‘feel’ something during his lifetime. He would take his canvas and paints to far away open spaces and paint the landscapes he saw. His emotions and feelings were depicted so beautifully that it was a release for him during his emotional turmoil. He never painted to sell or earn money. Only after he passed away, his wife sold his paintings to feed the family and run the house. And look now! His paintings are invaluable and have museum of his own in Amsterdam. The prints of his paintings sell for a large amount as well. This is because we ‘feel emotions’ when we see the Art of the modern times. This influenced the eastern world to create Japanese Printmaking. This technique was also used to create and reproduce forms of nature in print. The Impressionists argued that people do not see objects but only the light which they reflect. There is always more to what meets the eye, isn’t it? After the devastation of World War II, artists took it upon themselves to uplift the mood of the society by creating paintings using many vibrant colours. Styles such as Abstract Expressionism, Pointillism, Divisionism, Symbolism, Les Nabis, Art Nouveau created different styles of paintings on larger than life canvas. Larger installations and performances became widespread all across Europe and North America. Architecture were simplified in forms and lines to be easier to understand visually. To understand the life of the artists you must watch Loving Vincent, the movie that has been created using more than 16,000 actual paintings using his style of work. Each stroke and colour palette has been done with such precision that you are transported into their era and feel their characters through each frame. Does this make you take paints and make something beautiful on a large sheet of paper or canvas? Maybe once you’re done, you will know what your innermost thoughts and feelings are. I sure love to do that ever so often! The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh The Persistence of Memory By Salvador Dali Basquiat was recently sold for USD 110 Million!