Art to me is a conversation with my inner self who is also my special friend. If you take Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo and Vincent Van Gogh, we can realise the time they spent with this special friend. Every artist must have Me time. Without this Me time the artist is losing out on some very unique conversations that only they are capable of . As much as an artist must indulge in creative discovery so much should an artist be involved in using one’s tongue to express through language in verbal or written format what he/she has within themselves.
If we take a look at Picasso’s Blue Period you can see this intense inner conversations. Of course the artist never gave up the habit of this conversation throughout his lifetime. At a time when technology was still way behind in matters of communication or mass media, we can find a young and also a much older Picasso communicating within himself to bring forth works that will question and survive the passage of Time. He was a genius who found in himself conversations that questioned, sustained and communicated to generations to come what it would be like to always converse to that special inner friend.
An other wonderful example of an artist who stole daily time to be with her special inner friend is Frida Kahlo. Metaphorically chained within the walls of her home, she painted several self portraits that sewed together her inner self, her expectations and her reality. Physical pain which was part of her life due to a severe accident that she went through at a young age ensured that the Artist in her would never forget what she endured. Her self portraits are long conversations that she had with her inner self. Her paintings were wrapped in a sense of commitment, dissatisfaction and lonely reality. Irrespective of the number of people she was surrounded by, loneliness never left her side, it became her inner self. Frida's paintings survived Time because the coming generations after her agreed with her inner soul that the future believed was somehow, somewhere part of them also.
Vincent Van Gogh stands tall when we relate him with the habit of conversing with his inner soul. Van Gogh was so much forward in his artistic style as he freely allowed the results of his inner conversations to flow into his canvas. He connected those intense conversations with everything he saw. Poverty, hunger, sickness, loneliness, madness, beauty, companionship, brotherhood and love. Van Gogh can be voted most amongst these three Artists, who was able to make a direct connection with his inner conversations. He traveled a path that normal people mentioned as madness. His inner conversations resulted in paintings like the Starry Night, which portrayed a scene that took ages to understand even by art critics. As painful as his life history seems, Van Gogh when considering the later part of his life was a successful Artist when he achieved the connection between his inner conversations and the output in his Canvas.
Retaliation of an Artist can be best found in His/Her canvas when he hugs his inner self as his Mentor.
- Anu Kalikal
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