oh bloody hell

you know it's time to make art when on a fun quiz you come up a mixture of Mistress Slutty and Dr No-Backbone LOL. I promise no more crappy quizzes for a while.

the dark side

so my astrology must be right. I have a lethal Mars and Venus combo, from the book "mind that can produce war strategies, business strategies or FBI/CIA-type work". Well I have always though about being a spy LOL and have nearly applied for the ASIS and ASIO many a time but never sent in the application.
In Harry Potter land, I am dancing just over the line of the dark side, only just though!

Your in-depth results are:

Slytherin - 12
Ravenclaw - 11
Gryffindor - 9
Hufflepuff - 8

I do have a tinge of naughtiness in me, but I have always known that from way back when I used to do ceremonial magic in playgrounds late at night as a teenager LOL.
As in Star Wars, without the darkside, the light can not shine. I am the type of person that makes the moralists look like angles with sun shining out of their ass, but as a great Hindu teacher says, "it is often the demons who are moral". I say let them be moral, I hate PC (political correctness and moralism). PC + KC = BS.

when you're left, you're left

I hear so often about people who 'once were' green, left, alternative, political, activist, feminist and the list goes on. But I actually question this because I believe once you are left, you are! you don't go back because you have a family, or because you finish uni, or because some type of ching ching $$$ economic rationalism takes hold of you.
If you have read this far and don't like what I am saying move, and probably best not to visit my blog again because I think mainstream greed is destroying the people of the world.
The trees I love and the animals, but actually it is people who have the potential to dive deep into what is reality, what is it that ties us all together but also leave us different - achintya bheda bheda tattva.
But people are so quick to jump on the underdog, put the boot in when they are down because the mainstream actually want to live in a 1984 (George Orwell) world, told how to feel, act, sleep, eat, work. But what about the people who just don't fit the mold? What happens to them?
I am teaching at a school full of mainstreamers. I have never been surrounded with so many mainstream personalities in my life and I see them everyday breaking down children who show emotion, expression and independence. It is hurting my heart and makes me feel like screaming!!! These children need to know that they are special because we are all special. They need to know that the way they dress, talk, write, read is not the real them, the real them is what they express, but it is unwelcome. No wonder there is such a high youth suicide rate, hardly anyone wants to listen to youth to hear them express themselves.

that's it for now, but I have more to rant as it is an issue close to my heart... more later...

inspirations

It's funny when I try to think of where my art style has developed from, and what are my inspirations. I completely love Cezanne, he is a master of colour and light techniques, the forerunner of cubism. And Matisse is another master of colour and form. Freda Kahlo has such depth and power, and Esher is the master of perspective.
But I live in the 21st century and two of my biggest influences are from this century. Now don't expect anything profound here, my influences may well be laughable to some, but indeed they have influenced my creative vision, the way my mind's eye sees.
Disney and the Simpsons! As funny as it is, I don't see skys as blue and trees as green. I see rabbits as purple and sunsets or orange and green. I see trees as orange and clouds as pink. These colours are again developed from my love of surrealism and thus kaleidoscope eyes arrive.
Here are two example of my cartoon influenced style. The tree at the top left is an untitled work (although i am pondering 'Land of Milk and Honey'). It was my first acrylic painting and is on ply wood. It is still a work in progress and may never be finished.
The painting below is called 'Ganapathi', and is of the god Ganesh represented in leaves. It is maybe the second or third acrylic I painted and still one of my favourite pieces.

View a flash gallery of the full series here

the great art debate

...so I have been thinking about art heaps, and the definition of art and how loosely the tern is used. I should be studying education (which is what I am actually doing currently at uni, but it is soooo boring!).
Is there a real definition of art? or is it dependent on the user as to what art is? i would say advertising is art, yet others say a car is art.

So, according to Wiki, "The term art is most widely used to describe a particular type of production generated by human beings." So then, both the car and advertising in th previous example would be art.
And again from Wiki, "The denotation art implies some degree of aesthetic value, regardless of any practical value of the art in question." So, the eye of the beholder does come into the picture, some see aesthetic value in cars, others advertising.

As Wiki is doing great in this discussion, "Art is that which is made with the intention of stimulating the human senses as well as the human mind and or spirit.".
But, "Something is not considered 'art' when it stimulates only the senses, or only the mind, or when it has a different primary purpose than doing so."

So this is exactly what I am thinking! Calling a car art may show that the caller appreciates the car on a deeper level than we might, but the primary purpose of the car, to drive rather than be an art piece, would include it into the category of not being art.

Enough from Wiki for now.

For me - art appreciates in value. Yet I have been calling some of my hand painted pieces art. They may appreciate in value, but the fact that the sewing will fall apart before the paint does means it cannot keep appreciating in value like the great works of Cezanne or Matisse.

Therefore, I think the only true (in my opinion) wearable pieces of art are those that are on display or have been worn once (which equates to an exhibition), like works by Versace etc. Therefore I am either going to stop calling my painted tees are (because that has to be pure ego LOL) or I am going to paint pieces worthy of being hung on a wall.

Hope you have enjoyed my ramblings.... more to come.