The Artist Who Opened His Eyes To Art

The reality to which you refer your attention is directly proportional to the way your eyes adapt to the sight of an image reflected in your own perception.

I revealed my artistic side by seeing the beautiful way in which the great creations of other artists are presented. And in exchange for a less fleeting reality, I found myself in the face of an unusual reality, meaning the self-denial of perceptions I was not fascinated by. To understand me better, imagine for a moment that you are looking at a painting depicting fresh, red roses in a white vase, all arranged on a gray background. After all, it’s all about colors, isn’t it?

In fact, I really like the color red, but I don’t like shades of gray or white, so this combination of colors can negatively influence the evolution of my vision towards the quintessence of things. Specifically, when my eyes encounter this combination of colors anywhere around, and they will certainly encounter it, they will avoid the possibility of an authentic approach to what I knew to be art. It can be seen that my reality is itself a creation seen through the eyes that open only to what inspires me, but which also regenerates the intensity of my emotional feelings, in the original sensations of knowledge received from the outside world.

Simply put, in my vision, in the pleasure of my eyes to admire a view, a creation or certain things, there is a connection between colors and feelings, at a certain frame of reference. What can I say, maybe I should go through the intransigent filter of a third eye, being necessary to reconsider and reconfigure a reality – taking into account the ability of colors to complement each other and the fact that extremes attract. Life in pink does not mean pink everywhere, but a gray from the serious and sententious one, which is also lost towards white tones, rapidly degrading.

Now, do you understand why I say that sometimes the artistic side of my being understands everything by the way the eye distinguishes colors, using as a point of reference the cognitive component of attraction to the appreciation of beauty as an aesthetic feeling? But before going into more detail in the analysis of beauty, through which any creation can then afford the game of subjectivity, underlying the Logos, I must take into account, as a good method of training, awareness of the peculiarities of conception and language of creation of the artists I admire.

Leadership: Is your gaze a synthesis of the whole being that has lost itself due to boundless pride, sabotaged by the complex of its own superiority?

I was reading at one point in an art book about that painter in Antwerp named Joos Van Cleef, the best colorist of his time. He painted his paintings backwards so that people could see something interesting even when the paintings were turned upside down. He had a little problem with reality, I’d say. The paintings he painted, true works of art, where he saw them from those to whom he had sold them, he sought to borrow back, in order to “correct” them as he said. And so, he ruined them all.

It is a great pity that he ruined such beautiful things, such valuable artistic products, only because of the ambition to give voice to a vision that the eye wanted to multiply, to translate it into a vision that went beyond the limits of the unanimously accepted normal.

Are we dealing with a creator of a visual thinking system? However, perhaps Joos Van Cleef had another reality behind his eyes, an excellent opportunity to test his innovative spirit, less a vision of the rationalist Enlightenment. Probably, his initiative was not perceived in terms of “negative side effects”, because these also remained within a different reality. He perceived the opposite side of things, just as I prefer the contrast of colors to their opposite.

It's all in the gaze. And sometimes the gaze is a synthesis of the whole being that has lost itself due to boundless pride, being sabotaged by the complex of its own superiority.

Let me tell you something else. Most of the colors that my eye perceives are not a switch and distraction from the source of a stressful situation, but rather are the result of a specific need, a desire, a belief, and serve the purpose of satisfaction that a freelance artist wants to have. In fact, my eye does not know what Enlightenment is, just as it does not know how to paint, but it has a great influence on how I see the world, things, how I manifest and how I understand to be what I am.

A being that has lost its direction is the result of an Ego that continues to look for causes for which to suffer, continuing to be a Don Quixote, a reckless hero always ready to tilt at windmills.

If I happen to wake up faced with an unknown reality, convinced that I can change it or correct it in my favor, this is because my eyes have sensed an experience where the boundaries between themselves and the rest of nature are blurred. Or, perhaps the eye has noticed an experience where the satisfaction is lower and where the result of the evaluation of the submitted work, influenced by the individual performances, is not considered reasonable.

And as the sensations of sight become attention the moment in which only the eyes capture the essence of external objects, then the reality to which I refer is directly proportional to the way the eyes are filled with joy or anger at the sight of an image reflected in one’s own perception.

That’s the way it is. Leadership acquires valences of involvement in an act of self-knowledge through an act of creation, through which one can develop self-perception, but can also acquire valences of educating the spirit of self-transcendence. This is suggestive because, through an attitude of supposed superiority, man will lose more and more his value as a being, he will want to capitalize more and more on his potential without confronting anyone other than himself.

How is the personality that best defines you in order to acquire a sense of reality? Are you the kind of man who seeks perfection in happiness and glorification? Are you an artist who finds his perfection in acquiring the resemblance to a beauty seeker who is very much concerned with the external element? Can the branded content of your art be defined as the content of a creator of beauty through the very art of impression by impression? Will this cause you to revolt against yourself one day?

The way the eyes continue to see reality is closely related to the way you feel inside yourself, with the mention that an Ego that is self-convinced and self-deluded that it has a certain power is an Ego that lives permanently outside of it.

The Artist Who Opened His Eyes To Art is a seeker of beauty who only by cultivating a positive sense of self will learn to distinguish the feelings of the being from those of the Ego, bringing a balance in his mind and heart. Such an artist will know how to command his eyes to see only what the mind is prepared to understand, not what the mind is willing to believe.