Spring, a time return to innocence and beauty | Opinion
What holds us together is what is common among us. When we lose the delight for what is ordinary, we lose the innocence of the floating world that seems fleeting. We “build religious” and exclude God. We write poems and exclude sound and sense. We paint nonsense and forget the essential shape of the human body. But innocence is always just below the surface. When an artist or writer peels away the layers of ego, the essential shapes of who we appear once again.
Fortunately we are pulled back to innocence and beauty throughout history. The artist Johannes Vermeer did not want to paint elite, fashionable citizens. He wanted to focus on ordinary people such as theÉdouard Manet fought against the conservative French society where artists worked for money provided by wealthy patrons, the church, and the state. Manet was a rebel of the soul choosing, over great odds, to create beauty with his own vision.
I admire artists from Japan and their woodblock prints and how they used domestic life and the natural world for inspiration: a loose kimono, an ocean wave, cherry blossoms, a walk in the rain, all reminders of what is available to a child’s vision as well as to an old man walking through the museum.all that returns to a person drawing a bison on the walls of a cave. All that returns to a child finger painting on a flat piece of white paper.
And then there was Ralph Waldo Emerson, who wrote that we will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds. ... A nation will for the first time exist, because each person believes himself/herself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires everyone.
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