Animals in Art
By now we’ve all seen it, and many have shared it: a video in which a baby elephant in Thailand holds a paintbrush in its trunk and paints a picture. The comment section is usually filled with exclamations of how smart these animals are, or jokes, such as “this elephant is a better artist than I am”. It’s easy to get caught up in the novelty and cuteness of such a vision, but have you ever thought…
The creative process
During the great creative process in art, we shall go so far from time. The timelessness of creative process removes the smallness of everyday life making us meet beauty and wonder in ourselves, in which we totally immerse our soul. In this happening, we can find the concept of loneliness. Is this loneliness or exclusivity? Loneliness exists really as long as we are in strife and struggle. During creative process, there is no loneliness because we are…
What we leave behind
As you walk along Alki beach, in Seattle, breathing in the salty sea-scented air and taking in the skyline across the water, you come across two small, whimsical houses across the street from the beach, lushly covered in flowers of varying colors. You notice a wooden swing and a water fountain just outside, with an invitation to passersby to take a drink and rest their feet. Surrounded by modern condo buildings, this house is a colorful, friendly…
Creative power
Most of what allows us to know our personal truth is the creative power, and it’s within each of us, indiscriminately. What we need is to know the way that leads us back with this inner force. Creative power can be stepped up by effort. With enough creative effort, each of us could find the way to smooth out rocky roads. Anyone who chooses to look beyond and cross the threshold of his own knowledge is potentially…
Creativity
Regarding the many definitions of creativity, I want to mention the mathematician Henri Poincaré who argues that creativity is “to connect existing elements with new useful connections”. We can also say that creativity corresponds to a new way of applying an existing rule, otherwise to the transformation of an existing rule or to the creation of a new rule. Creativity is variation, alteration, mutation, correction, conversion, transfiguration; it is improvement, refinement, empowerment and renewal. Creativity is a…
Arts and Ethics 2.0
In the first part of this article, we mentioned that artists can have a huge impact as role models. We invited you to share some of your ideas and questions with us, and in the meantime, we have put together some strong examples of the huge impact of art. – At the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards singer Lady Gaga wore a dress made of raw beef, designed by Fran Fernandez using meat sourced from his family…
Arts and Ethics
The close relationship between art and ethics is framed by years of history as it has always influenced identity, family, community, relationships and the environment and contributes to the spiritual and ethical growth of society. This is demonstrated by the impact of public art, street art, video-art and theater. For this reason, art has often been labeled, censored and condemned, it can influence ethics through treatment with love and compassion as well as through the use of…
Back to the Ground Expo ’20
Despite our long delay on schedule, with the new year first we are giving space to an extraordinary event held in October, during the last period of free movement before the new health prevention provisions issued due to the Covid pandemic. “Back to the Ground Expo” is an impromptu exhibition, taking place in a single day and lasting only a few hours, held in open spaces in respect of all the safety and distancing measures in force…
Collective Creative Experiences
Xelah Art Studio prepare for you creative educational experiences throughout the year for learning about and improving one’s creative potential. The insights are good for artists, beginners and all those who share a passion for art and creativity. All individual or very small and exclusive group workshops, look for direct relationship between art and people. The program, divided between live web and few meetings, includes a theoretical part complete with didactic material and a practical part of…
Living with Art
Art The word “art” has the main etymological sense of going, activating motion, moving towards something. In a broad sense, it is the ability to act and produce and is the set of rules and procedures useful for carrying out an activity based on results. Any form of business. Any set of techniques and methods that involve the realization of something. Art, in its broadest meaning, includes every single or collective human activity that leads to forms…