Art
_I: I really liked this journey through the Soul of Taurus, through the Arts.
_AM: What have you felt?
_I: Many things… But above all, that ability we have to create. It is infinite. Sometimes, in our desire to seek spirituality, we forget that the spiritual has designed this world so that we can experience, feel everything that the mind is capable of imagining, and our capacity for manifestation makes that dream possible. You don't have to go far to discover the infinite power of creation, the manifesting divinity. Just enjoy or produce art.
_AM: What does art produce in you?
_I: Since I was little I always loved drawing, learning about music, writing, making sculptures and building. Except dance, the rest of the arts were always natural to me, and made me who I am. The love for music was awakened by my grandfather, who listened to classical music every day, and I was with him. When he died, I inherited his records, and he listened to them every day. In the garden, he dedicated me to building structures for my guinea pigs, with bricks, sand, cement, I began to engineer tunnels and bridges, as well as even making an artificial lake for all the animals. I loved telling stories to my friends in the neighborhood, and I used to write long texts, prose, telling stories about magic. I spent my days drawing, painting, as well as sculpting with plasticine and clay. From birth I had a lot of drawing technique, as well as molding... I remember that I once ruined a pot for my grandmother wanting to make a plaster mold to carve something large. Since I was little, artistic expression was very awake in me, and it gave me great pleasure and joy to see the development of something that emerged from me. When I grew up, I did it on a larger scale, making murals, writing books, wanting to learn the piano, although I never continued (I didn't like how they taught me, and I was traumatized), just as I spent my time making plans of ancient cities and schools that I wanted. create. I remember that I had imitated the technique of one of my mother's friends who was an architect, to be able to make the plans for a school that she intended to found as an adult, where she would teach the things that I knew. I think that art in several of its aspects defined the way I saw the world.
_AM: You saw that the world was as moldable as plasticine, susceptible to music, with a lot of space to reconstruct the new, to rewrite history...
_I: That's right... Everything I saw in the world inspired me, I could see figures and potentials everywhere. I remember once writing that I felt like I could even tell the story of a chair leg, because any object I saw inspired in me an understanding that could modify my vision of the world. When I knew that I came to do my part in the transformation of the Earth, one of the things I always said is that artists have a fundamental role in achieving it. Musicians, architects, filmmakers have a greater influence on people's lives than a politician or economist. And, the paradox is that still, people live their lives based on politics and economics instead of art. How does something that moves the inner world of an individual so much become mere entertainment? Something that is not considered “serious”?
_AM: To answer this, you must ask yourself an important question first.
_I: Which one?
_AM: “What is Art?”
_I: Oh, of course… What is art?
_AM: Art is Existence. The word Art comes from the Latin “ars”, whose Indo-European meaning is “to place, to adjust, to make properly”. It is the idea of connecting things in a fair, appreciable order, putting together a fabric. In Indo-European, the concept of weaving, making something, is said “tek”, origin of the Greek word “tekhné”, (the beauty of what is made, the way in which something is made). This term gave us words like technique, fabric, technology and text. Art is doing something towards the world, and Technique is the way, how you do it. From a Universal vision, you could understand that the mental universe is infinite, and because of this, it is a chaotic mind, without order. For there to be order, polarity is needed that orders things based on waves and rhythms. These give rise to beauty, a word that from the Indo-European “dew” means “powerful, worship of what is done.”
_I: Something beautiful, beautiful, is, therefore, the manifestation of the power to do something...
_AM: That's right. It is the emergence of the will that the universe calls Energy, and that culture calls “Soul.”
_I: Oh, the Soul, then, is the aspect that orders infinity!
_AM: Here the beauty of the soul is born, who orders, adjusts, makes, manifests the infinite and the finite so that the Cosmos exists. Art is the expression of the soul, and therefore “Art is Existence”, since it is the realization of that which emerges and leaves itself to manifest itself in space. When energy creates matter from itself to order itself, it develops the beauty of the worlds, and nature finds its canons of beauty in the cosmos. Humans interpret this order, and set out to imitate it, to use its intelligence as a way of taking from nature the tools to create beauty in the world. This is how he imitates the colors, that he molds the clay, that he sings and celebrates dancing, that he builds in his environment, that he narrates his exploits.
_I: And from this, the “Fine Arts” emerge, which in other words would be: “The quality of doing things with adoration, from one's own power.”
_AM: Throughout time, in the development of human history, Art and Technique were connected as one, being synonymous with each other. In the philosophical or hermetic schools, art, science, engineering, technology, were taken holistically, since they were all forms of realization, the way of expressing ideas, of being ingenious when it came to finding ways to weave an idea. scientific to develop it artistically. All 4 were part of a process. Science posed a thesis, which engineering had to dissect to find the technique that could translate it into reality as art.
_I: From that point of view, art is the realization of science... And science is the inspiration of art.
_AM: Exactly. For example, a building is the art of mathematical sciences and geometry. A song is the art born from the sciences of meter and sound. A painting or a food, they are the art of the science of chemistry and physics.
_I: I understand… And why did they separate?
AM: Conceptually, in Roman times, the terms Ars and Tekhné took different paths. Art came to describe attributes of aesthetic and emotional development, while Technique became what described the development of the practical and intellectual.
_I: They separated into Mind and Heart.
_AM: And then, “Opus Dei” arrived.
_I: The Catholic extremist organization?
_AM: No. The organization that emerged in Spain last century only took its name from a Latin phrase from the Christian era. “Opus Dei” means: Work of God. Christianity, as well as several monotheistic currents from the Middle East, interpret the world as part of hell, a divine punishment, and the pleasures of this world as something negative, typical of the Devil's deceptions. This vision is contradictory to the philosophy that instilled love for nature and the arts of the soul, the pleasures of the body. In European Christianity, the connotation of life was “to suffer,” and therefore, we were to work to prove ourselves worthy of the Kingdom of Heaven.
_I: Oh, sure! This made the arts seen as something diabolical.
_AM: And therefore, only Sacred Art was allowed, that which worshiped God. Everything else was sin. Likewise, at the rise of Islam, the idea that God could not have a face led to a raid on artists who depicted people in paintings and statues, as well as gods and myths. Art was relegated to the religious sacred, and it is worth mentioning something fundamental: art is emotion. And emotion makes us feel impure things from the religious vision, which leads us to “sin.” Thus, it was necessary to eliminate all art from our lives, to live austerely, dedicated only to the Work of God.
_I: This took us away from the emotional culture…
_AM: And he built a European society based on the culture of work, and not of feeling.
_I: Why are we talking about Europe? And the rest of the world?
_AM: Each culture maintained its art forms, but all were subjected to the European vision at the time of colonization. Today the world, whether you like it or not, is bathed in a Europeanized layer that means that, beyond history itself, the ideological canons are decorated with the history of Europe, therefore, when speaking in general, we refer to what happened in this continent, due to Globalization, since the 15th century.
_I: Ah. Well.
_AM: This suppression of emotion generated a cultural tradition of “hiding feelings.” Something that, despite the creative impulse of the Renaissance, had penetrated humanity very deeply. During the mid-15th, 16th and 17th centuries, art flourished again, and emotional expression was once again reflected in the Fine Arts, but this time, exalted in the aesthetic and emotional, separating much more from the scientific. Although many of the Renaissance artists were the fathers of scientism, and pillars of development for their revolutionary ideas, science did not want to be confused with aesthetic artists, since emotion is counterproductive.
_I: In what sense?
AM: In the 16th century, Descartes' Scientific Method made science based exclusively on Objectivity, seeking to eliminate any trace of Subjectivity that would modify the result of the experiment. Thus, artists were seen as mere entertainment to relax the mind, like the pleasure garden of scientists and thinkers. The artistic revolutions of the 18th century created the bohemian perception of artists, which spread as a culture of eccentrics throughout the 19th century, in which artists were classified as an emotional, philosophical branch that cannot contribute to the logic of the world. real. In the expansion of technology, science and engineering due to the second Industrial Revolution, logic took over the 20th century, and artists moved to the level of mere performers. As Picasso said “Art is the lie that helps us see the truth.”
_I: But still, art was and is fundamental in the life of each person... We give a lot of importance to art, always, in each historical period, and especially in the 20th century we have seen many ramifications of art that influenced our lives everyday.
_AM: That's right, they have carried out revolutions, inspired thousands. And yet, in the 21st century, they continue to be aspects of mere entertainment. Artists have been talking about peace for centuries, inspiring people to live in peace, and people resonate around the world with these messages, however, economics and politics end up doing the opposite.
_I: Why?
_AM: Because logic prevails. The overwhelming logic that says: “you have to survive, you cannot live on beautiful thoughts, there are problems to solve, bread and security are not given with songs.”
_I: Sure…
_AM: Politics and Economics cling to these concepts to make deals and impose power, “for the good of the people.” And minds that fear death, that live to survive, are subjugated to this logic. Therefore, at home they listen to songs of peace and love, but when they go out they do not know how to say no to war or avoid hating others.
_I: Like those who listen to the song “Let it Be” or “Imagine” by the Beatles but then start criticizing or taking a position on one side of the sidewalk, throwing stones at the other side.
_AM: Art became a form of entertainment or philosophy, far from the practice of logic. This leads people to relate all types of art as something conceptual or emotional, and not as something decisive or practical.
_I: Well, it is worth mentioning that it is good to say “let's make a world without borders or colors”, but that idea is magical, because there really is a lot of work behind it, because borders are not inventions to divide or control us, but rather they are a construction of security that we have been developing over thousands of years. I mean, I understand that the point of having no borders would be the best, but relegating it to a mere wish without taking into account that there are many factors behind it, also makes me see that art has become separated from reality.
_AM: And that was what we had to get to. When we talk about art, everything seems inspiring, magical, and there also lies the error of the artistic. Art is “doing”, ordering. Art had a practical role in culture, not an ideological one. Recent history has managed to take art to a heavenly, ethereal position, far from the practical logic of the world.
_I: So, art must come down to practice, and science must open more to the infinite possibilities that art offers...
_AM: And to do this, each individual must become an artist of their own life, that is, a manifestor of their own reality, their actions, their truth.
_I: Take action, and get things done.
_AM: That's right. Bringing beauty to the world is doing things for the world in the most orderly and inspiring way possible. Art is the innate ability to generate, create, seek holistic solutions.
_I: How do I do it?
_AM: Connect with what art inspires you. Well, art awakens the power and potential of your Soul. The energy you have to fulfill your mission and your purpose lies in painting, music, poetry, literature, sculpture, dance, architecture and cinema. Connect with them, awaken them in you, fall in love with what your soul is capable of feeling, doing, expressing. Start at home, awaken the arts in your home, in your soul, inside you. Transform through them those little things that you have always hoped to transform, those that stagnate your emotion. Change things, add color, listen to new music, watch other types of movies that inspire you, read a new book, paint a picture even if it's just colorful spots, dance, free yourself.
_I: Awaken the Soul of my Home…
_AM: And in doing so, you will discover the potential within, the strength to create and manifest. Then, little by little, in your art, you will discover that you are capable of making changes in the world, of capturing through color, sound, shapes, movement, image, and in doing so, awaken others to action.
_I: Awaken the Art in me, to find the Technique that allows me to transform the World.
_AM: You are Art. You just have to recognize yourself as an Artist.
_I: I am the Artist of my Existence.