In Sanskrit, the word Art is denoted by the term Kalā.—“*Kaṃ lāti iti kalā*” is the Sanskrit derivation of the term *kalā*. Here the term *kaṃ* denotes *ānandaṃ* i.e., pleasure and the term lāti means to give. So, from the derivation of the word *kalā*, it is known that *kalā* i.e., Art is that which gives happiness. Art is KALA OR KALAI; kam IS PLEASURE;tHAT GIVES PLEASURE IS KALA THE art. Truth is great, no doubt, but man cannot live by truth alone; he requires benevolence. But even truth and benevolence are not sufficient, beauty too is required. Thus it is the triple-flame of Satyam the truth, Sivam the good and Sundaram the beautiful that enlightens, rectifies and delights the human life respectively. Of this effulgent triple-flame of the true, the good and the beautiful, the last has been the first impulse of man from time immemorial. Thus the beautiful, which has been the veritable source of all art, had unfolded itself even in the cave-dwelling primitive man of the Palaeolithic or the Old Stone Age. The temples, especially in India <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/india#history>, have been sacred shrines of not only the anthropomorphic deities but also diverse arts and crafts of aesthetic appeal. Even the external appearance of a temple is a visual epic in stone and stucco! In both ancient and medieval India the temples had been the infinite sources of not only devotional inspiration but also artistic creation. In those times there was little distinction between what were called the sacred and the secular, the material and the spiritual, the erotic and the esoteric. It was an integral and synthetic approach to life’s summum bonum. Both the sophisticated urban culture and the unostentatious rural creativity had found their concrete expression in the form and content of the temple. It is a great surprise to find the modern surrealistic trends in ancient images in the temples. Surrealism is an abnormal art expression emanating out of the subconscious world, which has made its manifestation in the twentieth century poetry <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/poetry#history> as well as painting <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/painting#history> and sculpture. The imagination of the artists of yore was able to create such abnormal forms of surrealistic art. The images of Narasimha <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/narasimha#history> (semi-human and semi-animal), Brahma <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/brahma#history> with four heads, Ganesha with the head of an elephant, Mahishaasura mardini with ten arms are a few of the many surrealistic art examples of temple sculpture of India.
All arts can, in general, be divided into two - temporal and spatial. Temporal arts, which depend upon time, are auditory arts while spatial arts, depending on space, are generally visual arts. Music, Poetry and allied arts are temporal arts; painting, sculpture, etc., are spatial arts. In the South Indian temples, formerly equal significance used to be paid both to the temporal or auditory arts and the spatial or visual arts. But later on in these temples, auditory arts receive greater prominence than the visual arts. This is not to state that greater prominence should be given to visual arts than to the auditory ones; this is meant that equal prominence should be given to both of them. Musicians and dancers, painters <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/painter#history> and sculptors should equally be treated. KR IRS 1623 On Wed, 31 May 2023 at 18:11, Markendeya Yeddanapudi < [email protected]> wrote: > > > -- > *Mar*Invoking Expression of one’s Art > > > > Art is one’s expression, when one feels nature as one with nature. One > expresses the inspirations from the inhalation of wonderful smell messages > of the Biosphere, making one the one great organism, the Biosphere itself, > which combines the diverse smell messages of feelings into one’s artistic > expression. In free, lush, thick, healthy and happy nature, the air flow > becomes the continuous flow of artistic inspirations. Many organisms exhale > their artistic responses. By living as an active limb of happy nature, one > becomes an artist, who continuously exhales one’s artistic creations. Arts > inspire and one inhales the wonderful emotions from the air. > > When one visits one of our wonderful Temples and sees the astounding > sculptures, one can understand the flow of faith and inspiration the God of > the Temple created, the inspiration which was the result of the inhalation > of the diverse smell messages, of the flora and fauna around the Temple. > The devotees when they reached the God of the Temple in the heart of the > Temple, inhaled the wonderful mixtures of diverse smell messages, > propelling them towards artistic expressions, many of those expressions > astounding the modern architects, where they could not find explanation via > the Newtonian Physics, their role model science. > > Mysticism was the ever changing science, where one does not find > definitions and scopes. The Universe is changing continuously and mysticism > keeps pace with the change. That is why Hinduism is not shackled with rigid > and suffocating and unbearable rules. Hinduism did not create a St Xavier, > who burnt thousands of people in Goa, in that horrible inquisition. > Hinduism does not demand the divorce of one from one’s own faith, but > actually helps one in turning one’s faith into sublimation, often freeing > one from the rigid text of that anthropocentric and many superstition > directed religion. Hinduism is not a religion at all, but the experience of > feeling one’s componentship in nature.Hinduism does not cage nature or God > in rigid rules. > > Every great scientist is basically an artist who gets inspiration from > his/her art. To get great insights in nature, one needs the basic capacity > to breathe and convert the inhalation into artistic experience. A great > scientist is in reality an artist who is expressing his/her art. > > Art gives meaning and purpose for life. When nature is killed art vanishes > from living.Today, we killed the art component of the air with our > economics and industrialization which invariably poisons the air. As the > air has become toxic and it no longer inspires. > > YM > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CAL5XZopOX8L6%3DnVamY8xqoRxOKMWbxU7gLgpC%2BOFS22vq6fA2w%40mail.gmail.com.
