ART

Introduction

My friend Mariann posted a meme and I thought that has inspired me to write a Vocal Story about what Art means to me. It is eleven o'clock at night when this hit me so I don't know if I will finish it, but I will give it a try. I didn't, so this was completed the following morning.

I am going to combine my opinions with some observations on how I create my Vocal Stories, so my apologies if I bore you, but if you are a creator you might pick up some ideas for this piece.

ALL the RIGHT THINGS

I first thought that Art could be an acronym for All the Right Things. Art is the result of someone's ideas that stimulate others and may even give them pleasure.

I always want my creations to make people feel better for reading them. Vocal expects a lead image so I usually create them in Night Cafe but sometimes I do use a straight photograph.

Sometimes I feel that I want to complain or write a downer piece but always pull away from that. My last anthology sort of proposed by Dharrsheena was dark poetry but with the intention of it not being depressing. I have written before about the difficulties of writing positive prose, this was the piece in which I set out my difficulties.

I follow Jerry Saltz, an intelligent Art critic, and some of his observations are brilliant and make me think I am doing the right ring.

As well as writing I do try to make music and draw with pencils and digital devices but I find this so difficult and always make mistakes, meaning I have to start again.

Here is a piece I produced using a mini studio on my Kindle. It is amazing what you can do in your room these days.

If I find any of my digital art I will include it here, but here is some of my #TabletArt that I make with my medications and share on Instagram

Yesterday I was speaking with a creator T Andries at the John Marley Centre about his amazing black and white creations which Fiona had asked me if they could be coloured.

Art can be seen everywhere every day. You see it in advertisement boards, book and record covers as well as stand-alone art installations that can be seen in public as well as galleries.

We hang art on our walls because we love to see things that can take us somewhere else, even if it is just for a few seconds.

I wrote a piece on album art and picture discs which can be fascinating to examine as you listen to the music that is contained within.

But Back To Writing

Writing is my main creative outlet, possibly because if I make a mistake it can be quickly and easily rectified.

Also, you can take advice from others to improve whatever you have written. In the case of music and permanent art, to apply the advice you would have to recreate the piece whereas with writing you can change the existing thing that you have created.

Writing is Art, Painting is Art, Theatre is Art, and everything is Art if the creator says that it is Art.

A letter to a friend or an unmade bed can be art.

Concluding My Artful Observations.

Art is something that has an effect. It does not have to be practical or useful but it should cause an effect. Art should not be easily ignored. If it is ignored it has failed but is still Art.

I think a lot of my "Art" is ignored, but the reality is that on Vocal I have had over twenty-seven thousand reads, my Seven Days In blog has had over eight hundred thousand page views, and my Youtube Channel has almost two hundred thousand views (though half of them are from a single video) so I am anything but ignored.

I hope you have found this ramble stimulating.

The music I included is "Art Decade" by David Bowie, which I also hear as "Art Decayed".