The beauty of painting

“Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.” 

― Pablo Picasso

    

    Painting is just like another way of keeping a diary. Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own story into his pictures.

    I recently visited a solo art show organized by Charita Dasappa. She is an excellent artist who portrays her story and shares her message through oil painting and is not trained, artist. She named her canvass as oil on wood board. She titled Brahmanda: From the Eternal to the Ephemeral.

Her paintings represent a particular theme, contain a message that is quite easily conveyed by the figure composed entirely using brush strokes with oil paint. Each painting describes the emotions, thoughts and expresses the depth of life.

    She portrays each painting with different phases of life. Some of them are blessing in disguise, solitude, empheral joy, domesticated, the quest, race against time, mothering earth, a generation gap, the microcosm, cosmic proportions, the maze, mind over matter, the balancing act, eternal rhythm, mom and others.

   

    I loved them all but few are my favorites on them.

1. Solitude: The painting describes a lone leaf is falling down in a silent woods. Solitude simply means the state of being alone or solitary. Ironically, within that solitude she has also found a way to reconnect with humanity. Indeed, a few simple strokes can evoke an entire image, and her signature colors can give an intense feeling. 

“Solitude, whether endured or embraced, is a necessary gateway to original thought.” 

- Jane Hirshfield

2. Mothering earth: A goddess who represents, or is a personification of nature, fertility, creation, destruction, motherhood or who embodies the beauty of the earth. The painting represents all of this nature in it. The keywords we can use for portraying this painting are trees, wood, forest earth, female, mother, color, and roots. It inspires the belief that mother is the base of a family. 

“She is a wild, tangled forest with temples and treasures concealed within.” 
― John Mark Green

3. The balancing act: The painting explains how person balance between the city, the crowd, the pollution and nature.

"Nature is necessary for our physical and psychological well-being. Interacting with nature teaches us to live in relation with the other, not in domination over the other: You don't control the birds flying overhead, or the moon rising, or the bear walking where it would like to walk. In my appraisal, one of the overarching problems of the world today is that we see ourselves living in domination over rather than in relation with other people and with the natural world."

    -Peter Kahn, "Technology is changing our relationship with nature as we know it."

    Art gallery visits are a crucial part of understanding an artist’s motives and background. It is the visitor's opportunity to experience art as it is created, speak with the artist about their practice and story of their life. The benefits of the gallery visit give the artist an opportunity to show their work to people behind the scenes and share messages.

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."

-Thomas Merton