We will all begin to plan for the holidays now by using our creativity in how we want to celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas. Does this take time? Do you need to sit down and think about ideas and how you are going to get started?
Artists do the same thing. Artists need to have ideas for their paintings and artwork. Where do they get their ideas? Some artists say they get their ideas when they have nothing else to do and other artists get their ideas from everything. Memories are good sources for ideas and that is what the coming holidays will be for many of us as we plan how we will celebrate and share memories we have had with our families and friends.
The beauty of the holidays appeals to all of us and there are so many ways we all will want to create beauty for our families to enjoy.
Thanksgiving and Christmas are full of real experiences and much joy. Ideas come from real experiences for paintings, drawing and writing. Remembering different memories of how the holidays were celebrated as a child. Art is really the language of feeling, to tell about something special to you, to share your own story of how you celebrated the holidays. A person’s identity is developed in relation to their background, and that the art in their life helped them learn and develop concepts of who and what they are.
Our holidays do this for us over and over and the beauty we see, enjoy and visually experience create a foundation of how we appreciate the joys of the holidays. Whatever we confront during the holidays, it is crucial to realize that expression, dynamics and value are what we will gain from our experiences. The same is true for works of art and the aesthetic experience. When we confront art we find that things look certain ways. We must realize expression, dynamics and value are part of the look of a work of art as the objects depicted or the colors and these ideas can be part of how we simulate our lives during the holiday season. Again, art is really the language of feeling. You should take a time out to examine these ideas.
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