The above picture is a field painted by Van Gogh in July 1870, when summer was at its peak. Art critics say this is one of his most likely last works. Compared to the miserable and lonely circumstances of Van Gogh's last days, it feels very bright, like the face of a depressed patient wearing a mask. Auvers-sur-oise in southern France, the fields of splendid summer, must have been full of heat in a word. When he stayed here, he was in a psychiatric hospital. Perhaps it was a little bit of freedom he had briefly tasted before being imprisoned in a mental institution for a long time. In the midst of the sweltering heat of summer, artists like to paint pictures of the sea and the beach that will cool people's hearts. In fact, Van Gogh also once painted a sea with cool waves like the picture below. This painting was painted in a small seaside village in southern France, where Van Gogh went to recover from alcoholism. It is said that sand was actually found on the canvas. Personally, I like summer as it contains the agony and despair of Van Gogh's life, but I also like Monet's sparkling summer paintings. Impressionist painters who tried to describe nature in the changing color movement with light and to record the visible world accurately and objectively using the instantaneous effect of color or hue rejected the past style of expression and depended on the senses. It is well known as a school that pursued a new painting style. In particular, since summer is a time when intense sunlight illuminates everything, Impressionist painters went out in the summer to set up easels and try to capture nature as it is innumerable twinkling lights. Among them, Claude Monet (1840–1926), representative painters of the Impressionism, captured the common people enjoying midsummer in nature to escape the heat in their canvases. He was also famous as a painter who took the lead in changing art, which was accustomed to the culture of the upper class, into a culture that the public can participate in and enjoy. What the two painters have in common is that they feel a cool breeze from the canvas they painted in the hot summer.
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John Akomfrah The average global temperature has risen to 1.09°C since the Industrial Revolution. The rapid temperature rise is making the earth's ecosystems suffer. Scientists diagnose that if the current climate change continues, humanity will soon face a survival crisis. The most authoritative report containing these diagnoses by scientists is the report issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) under the United Nations. According to the report, climate change has had a negative impact on the physical and mental health of people in all study areas. Climate-related diseases are on the rise, and animal and human diseases are emerging in new areas. Some mental illness has been linked to trauma related to rising temperatures, extreme weather events, and loss of livelihoods and cultures. After 2040, and depending on the degree of warming, climate change will pose numerous risks to nature and human systems. For the 127 key risks identified, estimates of medium- and long-term impacts are many times higher than those currently observed. This climate crisis is currently ongoing. So, how are artists responding to this climate crisis? John Acompra is a black Ghanaian artist who grew up in a coal power plant in South London. He said he took a personal turning point on climate change and the environment in 1989 when he traveled to film a documentary about the Exxon oil spill and its catastrophic impact on Alaska's ecosystems. It is said that the experience of the oil leak was a blatant experience that showed the destruction of the livelihoods of the Inuit community and the worst colonial exploitation. Since then, Acompra continues to work on the relationship and impact between environmental destruction and climate change and human communities with responsibility and obligation as an artist. His famous work ‘Purple (2017)’ is a work that provides an overwhelming experience to the audience through six images of evidence of climate change and human communities filmed across 10 countries. What 'purple' means is something subtle and unnatural, somewhere between red and blue. In an interview with Purple, Acompra answered that climate change is not a problem that only white people or experts in the northern hemisphere can discuss and respond to, but that anyone can participate in, talk and express. Purple is a 62-minute immersive six-channel video installation Art is also active in incorporating the climate crisis message into its works. In particular, installation artists are actively carrying out this activity by utilizing the characteristics of the genre. Struggle for Happiness, has been accepted! Today, I received an acceptance notice from Islip Arts Council about the recently applied open call " Just Yellow". If you are selected for the open call, the gallery will notify you of the date of dropping off the painting and the fact that the painting is ready to be hung on the wall. They will also inform you of the opening reception date and ask for artist statements again if necessary. In most open calls, on average, about 3 JPG image files are sent together. The application fee is between $10-50. In most open calls, the judges are appointed, the judges decide their own theme, and the works that fit this theme are selected. As always, when you submit your work to the gallery's open call and receive a message of acceptance, you can visit the gallery in earnest, and because it is a great opportunity to meet the director or curator in person, artists often pay attention to the open call. This time, I applied for 2 digital artworks and 1 watercolor painting, and among them, digital artwork was selected. I chose about 3 pictures based on the theme of Just Yellow. The selected works are struggle for the happiness below. Yellow is the color of the sun, symbolizing gentleness and joy, and is the color of maturity. Yellow, which represents maturity, becomes golden when idealized. The golden fields, golden ears, golden fruits, and the golden color of golden autumn symbolize gold and money, representing wealth, authority and abundance. The symbol colors of spring are bright green and yellow.
Yellow, which symbolizes wealth and happiness, radiates good energy by itself. But is it possible to get this energy just because it is yellow? Isn't yellow constantly moving and making waves by itself, and that wave conveys warmth and happiness to us? This yellow energy is hidden in every corner of our daily life. Yellow is a color that gives confidence to people with low self-esteem, and is known to stimulate brain activity and develop creativity and thinking skills. Therefore, getting close to a yellow painting or yellow object can help boost creativity and build low self-esteem.Therefore, getting close to a yellow painting or yellow object can help boost creativity and build low self-esteem. Painting as a self-distancing. Throughout our lives, we have many relationships. we meet countless people with our family, at work, at school, at marts and resorts, at theaters and stadiums, online or in-person. In this kind of relationship, we often stand alone with a frustrated heart like a wanderer. It was a well-organized lines, but looking back, it is so entangled that we don't know where to start. We sometimes feel discouraged and lose our energy next to someone who is full of narcissism in a completely different way from our intentions. At this time, we often hear people say to distance themselves objectively, psychologically and physically away from relationships that are psychologically harmful. The concept of psychological distancing is meant to describe our ability to “step back and without an immediate response, survey the environment, and reflect on the course of action instead of being dominated by immediate simulation” (Giesbrecht, Müller, & Miller, 2010, p. 337). Here are some more quotes about psychological distancing below.
Meditating regularly can help you develop the ability to distance yourself from your thinking in everyday life. And I often recommend painting as it shows the same healing as this meditation therapy. A reward of creating psychological distancing is that it also helps to develop creativity. By moving away from a more concrete problem to an abstract one, we can ignore some of the parameters or boundaries limiting our solutions and find a creative solution instead. For that reason, there are many examples of artists who have overcome difficulties caused by their personal, social, political, and sometimes family relationships through artistic activities and sublimated them into another form. In other words, it is to quickly get away from the thought itself that is currently the most painful and complicated, look at the problem objectively, and come up with a more constructive alternative. When emotions are swirling, when anger rises in the mind and memories of the past swallow up the present, sometimes when anxiety and worry are constantly chasing after a tail, when you are in a state of overthinking, stepping back from all these complicated situations that's important. However, knowing all this, we know all too well that it is wise to calm the mind by objectifying the numerous conflicts and anguish in one's mind through a third person's eyes, but it is very difficult to put it into practice. However, writing or drawing can be very helpful in this case. If you look at the effect, first of all, you can reduce stress. Drawing with a pencil on paper creates an opportunity to free yourself from the thoughts that hold you back. You forget your anxiety while you focus on the creative process. The visual arts use metaphor, symbolism, dynamic and creative methods to express human experiences in ways that language cannot solve and to help them find answers to the conflicts that arise. Next, it helps with mindfulness. Mindfulness refers to the ability to fully focus one's body's sensations, thoughts, and emotions on the here and now. You may be distracted when drawing or coloring, but if you keep focusing on art, negative thoughts and conflicts will disappear. The creative process also provides opportunities for self-reflection. Gaining insight into the source of your worries is important because it is an essential step in solving the problem. Anxiety is often accompanied by reflective thoughts known as ‘repetitive loops’ with over thinking. Repeating the same thoughts only increases suffering, and when you want to get away from painful thoughts and take a break, drawing a picture calms your mind while focusing your attention elsewhere. And above all, when you draw, you discover that life itself is like a mosaic. Just as small pieces of thought make one huge picture, by objectifying the abstract unit of thought, you can think about what kind of work the shape of your thoughts can make. Pixabay Editor's Choice! Pixabay is an active community of creators that share copyright-free images and videos. Here I have uploaded 55 free images. And one of them was chosen by the editors. By doing this, I was able to figure out in advance which pictures people prefer. Currently, the actual original painting, the main character of the above image, has been uploaded for sale on the Etsy site. Personally, when I draw, I don't draw with people's reactions in mind. Only the thought of wanting to transfer the image that pops into my head as it is fills my head. That's why there is a difference between the pictures I like and the pictures people prefer. But whenever I get good reviews, I get a lot of energy in my heart. It's hard to express in words how grateful these comments are to artists who work hard. When I think of the angels who write such good reviews and give me strength, I am determined to work harder and share them. And in fact, this determination may have kept us going down this road for a long time without big rewards or clear pictures of the future. |
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