The Scream
Once Picasso was asked what his paintings mean? And he said,” Do you know what the birds sing? You don’t; but you listen anyway.” So, sometimes with a piece of art, it is important just to look.
And I completely acknowledge the fact.
Canvas art dates back to the 14th century Italy and with canvas and Italy there is my one name that strikes my mind, that is- LEONARDO DA VINCE. Since the time I started following this celebrated artist and pantomath I could not keep my eyes off his work and skills. Talking particularly about his artwork, his first painting was “The Adoration of The Magi” and other works are the mysterious “Mona Lisa”, the very popular “The Last Supper”, “Salvatore Mundi” and the list is too long to name all of them here. What admires to me about him is the variety of humans he painted and their historic depiction. I have greatly admired him since the time I saw him in a fiction series named “Da Vince Demons”. What a marvellous work he has done. It’s commendable. My veneration for him is so strong that I can pen down an entire separate blog on him.
Anyways!
Also over time I have learned that any piece of art is not only a depiction how it looks rather it may also have hidden meanings and in the 14th century many painter, artists were criticized for obscene and naked sculptors and canvas they presented in front of the world and as for my memory works I remember the two artists and their work- “Benefit Supervisor Sleeping” by Lucian Freud, in this painting he painted a naked woman sleeping on the couch who was 127 kg and the other is “David” by Michelangelo, this is a sculptor of the Biblical hero David in which the artists has carved a naked man who is looking with a warning frown towards Rome because of the rivalry between the Medici Family (Republic of Florence) and Rome.
A lot of you must be wondering why they portrayed nudity. Well, I really don’t have an answer to this but I will mention that during that time people refrained from wearing clothes or I’ll say they fancy their bareness and actually I applaud them for at least they were not hippocratic as the present generations are and also I will add a fact here that the two art works that I mentioned above were the most priced that were sold and purchased.
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By following and looking and admiring their work I have grown up and developed an interest I adopted one of the skills.
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The former picture was my favorite canvas that I chose to paint and still is but while I was dipping my brushes and hands in oil to paint this I didn’t know I am going to admire it for this long and may be forever.
It speaks so much.
I also featured this on my Instagram account the and my caption said-
How can humans not fall in love with fictional characters? Why do only alcohol, smoking and tobacco bring people together? When do people admire the star studded sky or gaze the moon? Why is love not like the sacrifice of Romeo and Juliet? Why people are not open about sexuality when they can find obnoxious ways to find access to the banned pornography sites? Why is intimacy a sign of loyalty? Why don’t people discuss, debate and find answers in a parallel world where media and religion are not less than talk shows? Why do we lack listeners? What is so intriguing about kitty parties and bro code? Why is human mind so hippocratic? Are we rejoicing the disobedience of Adam and Eve or Are we creating a sin of our own?
I have named my paining as “The Scream” because it is very contradictory to what is portrayed in it, a human with his fingers on his lips with an indication of silence but the volume it holds is immense.
I would only conclude this with the experience I gained which my caffeine converted in words, “Scribbled and Sketched, Painted and Polished across canvas of days we get to add to our variegated lines. Let’s make our Wisdom deeper than our Shame, our Pain more interesting than Perfection. And when we can do nothing to make sense of anything, then to simply look.”
