If a thing is two-faced, it baffles us then how come art's purpose be only to please our senses! It has multiple faces. Every face speaks differently, to different people.
It is dense and needs to be unpacked with proper attention invested in the process. We often miss out on its critical implications. There are two sides to every art if not more.
One is, of course, the aesthetic, no two ways about it. It grabs our eyes the most. The aesthetic side is vocal by nature. It is explicit, evident hence can do without our investigation.
What demands our greater attention is the implicit, the subdued and what the artist and his art tries to alert us to.
Why would someone make a painting? What does a photograph do? Why does one sing at all? What does someone dance?
To express? Yes, but just the happiness?
Each craft tries to tell a story. All of them try to tell their side of the story and every recension matters.
Art, at deeper levels, is also socio-politically informed. The aesthetic often robs the informed aspect. There is so much more than what just meets the eye.
Every shade, each note, each act, and every step is gravid with meaning.
Art forms carry denotations. The duty to look beyond the immediate aesthetics rests with us. As art lovers, we have to be more aware of the philosophy behind an artist's work.
Art without the unspoken, unexpressed is a pure farce. Our platform Hiyaworks has a long list of serious, dedicated and charged artists.
They have stories to tell through their art forms, stories that can inspire and add something to our lives.
Please go through their work at hiyaworks.com and drown in a pool of ideas.
