Create works with your soul and intuition, use your hands as a tool.
Turn off your feelings, try to be transported to a parallel world. Your state of mind should be at the center of your attention. Lyrical images full of secrets, your dreams, the hidden essence of things – everything will be revealed to you if you let go of your feelings and do not limit your imagination. The power of figurative expressiveness and the depth of the theme will manifest itself if you do not get hung up on what you create your work with. The artist’s main tool is his hands.
We Have Technical Limitations; Skills That We Have Yet To Develop That Hinder Us
Fine art theorist Wassily Kandinsky said this beautifully: “Tune your ears to music, open your eyes to painting and… stop thinking! Just ask yourself if your work allows you to enter a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, then what else do you need? Plunging into the process of creating a picture, before applying paint to a blank canvas, I “live” denial in your thoughts. I see it as a separate life, with the birth of a life story and the completion of a life cycle.
The process of creating a picture for me is a sacrament. And everyday life is not always the source of my inspiration. For the most part, when I express my inner state, I use the language of allegories and metaphors. For me, the emotional life of a person is important, but it does not always lie in the real plane. A lot of pictures give us dreams, the world of dreams, various states of nature. Hence my firm conviction that through works of art one can heal the soul. Looking at the canvas, plunging into the world of visions, you will get the opportunity to catch the emotionally colored mood of the picture. Its impact, multiplied by the subjective experiences of a person sensitive to creative perception, will give a striking effect. Observing its impact, I can confidently speak about the stable sensual impact on the viewer of my paintings, about art therapy that heals the soul. My paintings have a truly magical value.
Think about it, centuries ago, when there was no written culture, it was images that carried out an educational function for a person. Without letters and numbers, looking at the image of a cat carved on a rock, or at a primitive vessel fashioned from clay, a person understood the meaning that inscriptions or objects conveyed to him. Enlightenment happened in a similar way – through a variety of art forms. The educational mission is still relevant today.
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The artist must carry a high mission. Spiritualized goal is the main vector of the creator of modernity.
Imagination, colorful life, human characters, bright events – all this should surround the daily work of the artist and develop his craft. But without goal-setting, without selfless service to a high goal, creativity will lose its power. I understood a long time ago that an artist must have a mission, gained through years of mental work; forged by the experience of creating hundreds and hundreds of images. My missionary activity is to help the viewer achieve inner harmony.
With each of my work, I want to bring the spiritual transformation of a person closer. I devoted my life in creativity to the study of the social characteristics of a person. Taking on the embodiment of this or that image, I analyzed its moral basis. I wanted to achieve the most complete sounding of the image, paying maximum attention to the emotional and psychological transmission of the state of mind. My artistic experiments have shown that paintings can affect a person, causing internal transformation.
Using my “physical” view of the nature of things, I thought about the function of genes in the human body. Through scientific research, we know that there is a flow of causal relationships from DNA to the traits of our behavior. That is, the development of personality lies in the consistent disclosure of information “hardwired” in the genome. However, this is not all. New scientific findings show that genes are activated by environment and behavioral factors. The process is cyclical – changes in genes can then affect the environment and be re-influenced by these changes, already under the influence of external factors. Consequently, human development is not only programmed by DNA, but largely depends on the conditions of the external environment and our personal experience.
Isn’t it amazing?! This means that we can form (at least partially) our own genome, filling it with highly spiritual content. The idea of creating a “gene of art” arouses great enthusiasm in me, I clearly see this as a huge force that can cause tectonic shifts in society aimed at positive and spiritual transformation of mankind. Naturally, as an artist, I prefer to do it in the Contemporary Art paradigm. If you follow my thoughts, you will feel the following postulate of the training manual:
Treat your life as an art.
Live life as a separate direction in art, feel like an innovator who creates your own unique style. Record creativity at every point in your existence. Let art permeate all spheres of your existence. Up to everyday-household positions. Think about how you dress, how you prepare food, what decorations you choose, how you tidy up your front lawn… All this, thrown on the “artist’s palette”, can be embodied in your new outlook on life. . Form your updated image – a smile, character traits, communication features – and develop it in yourself as a creation of Contemporary Art.
Following the greatest genius William Shakespeare, who said, “The purpose of art is to give form to life,” I would like to hope that perfect form is the hallmark of high art. Finding a form that literally reproduces the reality around you is a task worthy of a real creator.
Anastassia Ovsiienko
Digital art is flexible. If you save it correctly, in the right formats, you can return there in five or ten years. For example, to rethink one’s past, to add something, to modify, unlike oil paintings or sculpture…
The art world, sensitive to trends and receptive to everything new, instantly picks up even subtle trends. And with the advent of the digital space, Digital Art occupied its niche in record time, becoming an integral part of the art world, displacing traditional fine art.
