Pedro Daniel Pfaff Gevoel Forms on Art. The purpose of Art is to unveil your Soul, not to impress the World with your originality. Express every word with care for it shall cherish you. Let not your tongue speak with contempt or bitterness of another's work. For the poison that you utter shall contaminate your own work. Where praise can not be given, then withold your judgement. The World is sick. But you can not administer to the sick, untill you yourself are well.Therefore, do whatever you do with Love. Paint with Love, make music with Love, sculpture with Love and write with Love. But above all thank the Supreme for the gift. Be grateful to the Teacher, but do not worship Him or Her. The Guide is there to point out the road and to you is given the task to walk upon it. God is the engineer of the road. Post Modern Art was a discovery. But like so many discoverers who are bent upon self -praise, they have endevoured to destroy the past. This is nothing New. Temple Builders have always practiced the Art of destroying the temples that came before them. The People shall not be reminded of the road that led to this new path of loneliness. Estrangement from the Infinite. Now there is a division between Abstractionism and Realism. No longer are insults and slurs are hold at each other.But beneath the surface hostility still lurks. The Realist looks aghast at the versitality of the Abstractionist and the Expressionist, wondering whether indeed his own creativity is limited. While Abstractionist and Expressionist feel a certain amount of contempt for Realism, viewing Realism as technicalism. Who is right? Both and neither. For there is another level of Reality, the reality of the Spirit. Not all cultures have adopted the realistic method of representing the World and indeed Modern Art had evolved as a fusion between the West and the Third World. Now those of us who find ourselves in the West, begin our artistic endeavours as Realist. It is only at a later stage, when we had run the gaunlet of Realism, that we begin to despice Realism. Naturally, when we go to the Art School, we are taught to despice Realism. Not directly, but by omission.Thus Realism is looked upon as low-brow Art. Something one does when you lack creativity. Look now at them, look at the Modernist and look at the Realist. I have never met an Abstract or Expressionist painter, myself included that was not neurotic.Why, because by definition an Abstractionist or Expressionistic painter is a self-depressionist.Thus if the Truth be told, we are more concerned with Style than with Substance. Restless and agitated in the incessent pursuit of originality. To be quite honest, I've always looked upon with envy at people who could display a Still Life with pride and contentment. Admiration came to me.Not geniune spiritual admiration for a fellow artist,but sublime astonishment of a more sordid kind. Astonishment that someone could be so simple-minded. Do I stand accused? Not really. For I am a mere participant in a deceased culture. A culture that views anything healthy and wholesome with suspicion. Let us look at Realism however,from a different perspective. Twentieth century criticism of the Mannerisms of the nineteenth century may be valid, but that does not necessarily mean that their Art was Manneristic. Thus let us look at Realism from a New Age perspective. Here my researches into para-psychology indicates that we do influence our environment with our thoughts and that our self-created environments do indeed influence us. Looking at Classical Art, we find that most if not all artists were students of the Occult Sciences. From this perspective one does not merely paint a bowl of fruit as an object of dislay, one paints a bowl of fruit as a means of attuning yourself with the conciousness of plants. Again, one does not merely paint a landscape as an object of diplay but as a mens of attuning ourself with the consciousness of a forest. Thus, one does not merely study nudes for the satisfaction of casual neurotic impulses, but as a means of studying the bioplasmic body. Anatomy for Artist is the first step towrds becoming a Master pranic healer. One studies perspective not for the delight of rendering realistic appearances but to develop the powers of concentration and observation.
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