Acceptance
of the unconscious
Jung emphasizes that man can achieve
wholeness only through a knowledge and acceptance of the unconscious—a
knowledge acquired through dreams and their symbols. Every dream is a direct,
personal, and meaningful communication to the dreamer—a communication that uses
the symbols common to all mankind but uses them always in an entirely
individual way, which can be interpreted only by an entirely individual.
Art smiles upon everything,
endowing it with its integrating, colourful imagery.
Life is so structured that for
a man to be fully conscious of it he needs all these forms of intellectual
activity, which complement each other and build up an integral perception of
the world and versatile orientation in it.
It does however lead to loss,
death, and mourning. It allows the artist to make a link between the
relationships of existence, decay and loss. It is this transition between life
and death where many religious cultures, myths and rituals exist. Art is to
acknowledge a transition period, not necessarily between life and death but
also for example, from child to adult.
Outline, one might say, is the
Alpha and Omega of Art. It is the earliest mode of expression among primitive
peoples, as it is with the individual child, and it has been cultivated for its
power of characterization and expression, and as an ultimate test of
draughtsmanship, by the most accomplished artists of all time The old fanciful
story of its origin in the work of a lover who traced in charcoal the boundary
of the shadow of the head of his sweetheart as cast upon the wall by the sun,
and thus obtained the first profile portrait, is probably more true in
substance than in fact, it certainly illustrates the function of outline as the
definition of the boundaries of form.
Silhouette - As children we
probably perceive forms in nature defined as flat shapes of colour relieved
upon other colours, or flat fields of light on dark, as a white horse is
defined upon the green grass of a field, or a black figure upon a background of
snow.
Purely the word alone without
any meaning seems to hold some significance as to what is being said.
Ephemeral, such a beautiful word.
I find the definition matches
the word itself, its meaning being: lasting a very short time, short-lived,
transitory. It does give a whole new purpose to the art being created.
There are plenty of examples
of ephemeral nature such as short lived flowers and insects. It can be used in
an adjective to describe a period of time such as ‘the ephemeral joys of
childhood’.
Practiced by almost all human cultures, Art
can be regarded as one of the defining characteristics of the human species.
In all societies today, the visual arts are
intimately intertwined with music, dance, ritual (marking life landmarks,
death, religion and politics) and language (poetry, song and story-telling).
We feel the beauty and simplicity of such
effects in nature. We feel that the mind, through the eye resting upon these
quiet planes and delicate lines, receives a sense of repose and poetic
suggestion which is lost in the bright noontide, with all its wealth of
glittering detail, sharp cut in light and shade. There is no doubt that this
typical power of outline and the value of simplicity of mass were perceived by
the ancients, notably the Ancient Egyptians and the Greeks, who both, in their
own ways, in their art show a wonderful power of characterization by means of
line and mass, and a delicate sense of the ornamental value and quality of
line.
(Fonte: Wikipedia)
