Beauty in our Eyes

There is a cliché that beauty is in the eye of the beholder
but it is irrefutable too that people are similar than dissimilar and in one
point, they will agree to what is beautiful. People in general know what is
beautiful from what is not but what makes artists different from the rest is
not as to how they are capable of identifying one but more than anything, they
know very well how to execute it, ‘say in wall painting.

Let a child grow up in a jungle for years and once he grows
old, take him to a comfortable luxury hotel and he’d know exactly that where he
is at is a place of beauty without being exposed to it previously. And because
he doesn’t know what art is, then not in a chance he’ll see the place as work
of art but all he understands is that his new surrounding pleases his eyes. And
because he does not understand what an art piece is or what is an Asian art
from what is European, the moment this very same man was taken to museum, no
appreciation however is expected from him. And this is simply because art may
not be all beautiful but some are merely expression or a representation of
something like culture and tradition. What pleases the eyes of an individual
may differ but most often than not what displeases the eyes of one displeases
the rest, as well. In general, we have a grasp of what is beautiful, although
there are just some variations as to how we look at things or our surroundings.
It is like when people talk about something or someone as beautiful and another
person finds the very same subject as not beautiful, then he or she must have
just raised her standard of what beauty is or perhaps, the person just over
expected based from the opinion of the majority. And when this over expectation
has not been met, psychologically this beauty will not be attractive enough in
one’s eyes but it wasn’t mentioned at all that such is ugly.

Asian art is art of beauty and expression. Yet despite how
beautiful a piece is, an art that is more beautiful exists somewhere and when
the two will be compared, then the former will be seen as not beautiful when
compared to the latter. But then, to mean the lesser as ugly is not in any way
insinuated. Given this, beauty in the eyes of the beholder may mean that
there are just degrees of what is beautiful that people see.

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The Soul of Asia

Asia is a continent known for its diverse religions. Not in
a slim chance that one can spot an Asian country that is not driven by one
dominant religion. Such institution shaped the society and its values since the
time a respective country started to adopt the teachings of such. Basing from
these, we know then what influences Asian art, in general.
From here, the
culture and tradition followed which to-date dictates the values and morals of
the national socio-political system. Religion, basically, influences every move
of the nation. Such entirety is a large contributing factor as to how an
individual is reared until he grows old, mature enough to pursue his
preferences, to question reasons, and to come up with one as his own. This set
of beliefs imposed by religion can be manipulative depriving the society of
truth and controlling targeting the minds of individuals. In effect is a
society controlled not by aggression or by force but with mental control. This is how parents handle their children and
their youths until influences from outside make them exposed to what is real
and make them deviate from the values mentally imposed to them. But until then,
there is pure innocence. Despite once in a while being hooked to what the
societal standard deems wrong, lies within is purity. Conservative and
controlling upbringing leads a kid to be a child for a more prolonged period of
time. This happens most especially to
Asian countries that discourage its constituents to be exposed to Western
influences. When compared to arts, Asia is more of linear landscape wall painting
which creation is controlled as opposed to painterly abstract that is free
form.
And such innocence and purity is the reason why Asians have
expressive eyes as that of a child. Eyes are said to be the windows of a soul.
It so happened that soul being spoken hereof is of innocence and purity. And
with such, mind does not prevail but all emotion—emotion which is the best tool
of an artist to create a work of art that is magnificent and incomparably
brilliant. And this is what Asian art takes advantage of. Artists, most
especially in the field of arts where acting is required, need to exude
feelings through their eyes. Unconsciously and effortlessly, the eyes work
because of powerful emotion less reason that can only be achieved from innocence.

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Travel and Arts

Travelling is seeing beauty. People want to see the actual
picture of what inspires a beautiful landscape painting. This is why people
make sure that they get the best place possible when they plan to go on
vacation. It is very seldom that one travels to see the mishaps the other place
has not unless one is up for charity work or on a mission. Other than that,
eyes are set to beauty only.

Many would feel disappointed that if during their travel they
spotted a place that disgusts them, moreso, if this place happens to be their
destination. Or if this is not the case, travellers, perhaps, over expected of
what to see which put their standard of beauty to unreasonable height
already. Simply put, in most cases,
people travel to be surrounded with eye-candies that for them are not up for
everyday treats. Whatever is in there to lure people to travel and to make the
travellers come back for more is an art. Contemporary art can be independent
from travel as a subject given that there are online sites that cater for this
alone and people need not even move from their seat just to have the affordable
art of expensive one they desire. But then travel as a subject is in no way
effective without tackling arts because we travel for beauty, comfort,
relaxation, or something that is strange to our eyes and these are all arts;
nothing more, nothing less.

With travel websites, people get introduced to arts more and
more because less is the chance that contemporary arts will be ignored when
travel is dealt. After all, the best thing to mention when one travels is all
about happiness, beauty, experience, and convenience. All these are arts. And
literally, the more arts will be dealt of when the travellers start talking
about souvenirs or memorabilia to bring back home for keepsake or as giveaways
to friends and families.

It may not be landscape wall paintings to directly
represent the spot visited but miniatures will do like crafts or as simple as
pots hand-painted. And as for heavy fine arts like paintings, then better order
it online, hassle-free, baggage-free, and most of all stress-free. Just Google
and browse what to find. Let the mouse work and click on the desired art. Check
it out and you are as good as having the brilliant piece of affordable art in
your hand.

Art in our Eyes

The window to the soul is our eyes. And when we speak of such,
we only mean “I”. It is “ourselves”. It is our soul that defines us of whether
we are one affordable art or a wall painting of rarity, or just simply a common
craft.

It is that “I” which
comprises our intelligence, our spirituality, our personality, our innate
talent, our desires, and some other more aspects that define who we are but
most of all, it is our feeling over something that gives color to our soul. And
it is our passion that ignites it. Expressive eyes are meant to be artists
because in these eyes, emotion is transmitted. And artists are not artists
without emotion ignited by passion. The eyes serve as the evidence of what the
person feels. If eyes cannot express the feeling within, then art will be
lacking emotion. This is why Asian art is expressive because Asians are known
to have eyes that emote. And as they create their art piece, you can tell how
passionate they are in doing so just by merely looking at their eyes. And the
outcome from this is brilliance. Passion is the key to brilliant art. It is the
powerful emotion of one’s soul that creates an art to stand out from the rest.
Our eyes carry our facial expression. Yet the most effective to touch the
hearts of someone is through expressive eyes and eyes become like this when the
soul is pure and spirit is at its height. This is why it is very important to
nourish our spirit and feed our soul constantly with meditation and reflection
because there lies who we are.

Considering the aforementioned, when we say that purity in
one’s soul projects an innocent yet very heart-warming expression as that of seen in
the eyes of a child, we understand then as to why many young Asian artists are
great performers as actors and actresses because they are reared to be
conservative retaining their innocence. The moment they emote, the purity of
their soul is expressed creating a brilliant acting just by making their eyes
work effortlessly and unconsciously.

People from Asia are known for their small eyes relatively when compared
to other races. These small eyes cover a big beautiful innocent soul making
such eyes very expressive and these are the small ones which the field of art,
especially the field of acting, takes advantage of.

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Art in times of Discomfort

Alleviating discomfort even in time of illness is an art. We may be sick and feel helpless but then with a little energy left, we can still easen up the discomfort. Making the place where we rest conducive lighten up the burden. Imagine lying down in a cool nice place with your favorite music or favorite show on, and once in a while glancing at a relaxing wall painting mounted in your wall must easen up the discomfort. And making the sick self to ook at least clean and neat while sipping on water or fresh fruit juice, and with all the relevant stuff like first aid and meds neatly arranged within the reach will surely alleviate the ugly thing that we are feeling. But then again, this is only possible if we can still to manage all these simple art work for us during the time that we feel so weak. And if not, we know, anyway, when to ask for some help. Thanks to arts! They, surely, are a wonderful blessing to our life.

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Give Life an Art

More than anything else, it is our life that we need to give art to. Life can't always be complete when we speak of fate. there are times that you have everything yet miss something and that something makes that everything that you have seem to appear useless and all missing.

This is where art resolves the issue of the above-mentioned situation.Whatever missing, creativity is a good solution.Girls may want something to entice their feeling of romance from time to time. Or it could just be one day, they wake up and they want some lovely thrill in their routinary life and sinning or falling to temptation is never an option. Then might as well create one or be resourceful to look for one that will entice your senses and give you the feeling that you need to make you excited for the next day.

Call it inspiration, if this is how we call it! Men may need this to make them push hard enough at work. But as for women, this is what we need to realize how much zits have already erupted in our face that we seemed not to notice. This is what we need to endure brushing our hair for at least a hundred times in a day because no matter how vain a girl is, there is a time or even a longer period of slacking off. It is like, "So, how about my looks? Who cares? And this as we know is not healthy because despite girl's achievement over something, the fact that she is not exerting effort to make herself look good automatically means that she is unhappy which is probably masked by money, achievement, power, etc.

If a woman gets inspired by someone of whether this is an illusion or just a product of imagination or a figure out of creativity, he is just a push for her to move of taking good care of herself once again. It is a temporary feeling of being in love and hoping that its outcome is happiness in her end. The person on the other end does not have to know because you know it so well, that it is an illusion...an inspiration... a character story of your creativity.

And you bet, this is much better than staring at wall painting just to get inspired!
Oh by the way, by next month or a month after that, we'll come up with an interesting blog that will hit the woman in all of us!

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Let us reflect on art a little!

So much for bedrooms for now, wall paintings and other decorative arts to make our surroundings an eye candy. Let's reflect on art for the meantime. Yes, we know that art is an expression. It is a voice. And a representation of an inner thought.But to what extent this expression can go?

It is like speech. You may hit someone if that someone is hitting on you and you do not have enough patience to endure the person's attack-- be it blatant or subtle. The tendency is to fight back. And yes, we understand that. But what if your expression is to mock something that is not even hurting you? It is just that it doesn't adhere to what you believe in but it doesn't oppose too. We know why there was war in human history. Most of these were rooted from faith and religion. Isn't it enough to learn RESPECT not unless you want one view down to embrace yours which best explained the notion of conquer and conquest. All politics!

Yes, I believe. But you believe in something else. Can't we be friends? Would you respect my practices which surely will not hurt you?

There is an incident where an art exhibit tripped on the image of Christ in so many ways---yes..call them " creative ways". Okay, let us disregard sanctity, divinity, or holiness because not all even believe that these words exist. Let us respect that. But let us just put it this way. You have carved an image. And this image keeps your company. For years, you see this so alive. Call it imaginary or a sentimental value, it does not matter. This practice of yours was made known to your peers, family, friends, loved ones. Simply put, people know how important this image is for you. And because others find it strange, some group started using this image for mockery, a laughing stock. How would you feel?

And yes, it is all creativity! It is art.

Art is an expression and it becomes art in the strictest sense of the word when it is derived from imagination with your feelings and thoughts combined to it and not intended to hit someone negatively.

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