Anekantavada through Paintings - Hardcover

Manju Nahata

9788120836006: Anekantavada through Paintings

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8120836006 ISBN 13: 9788120836006

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass, 2012

A thought that comes on a persons mind and is externalised into speech or utterance it stays there in the form or shape of an image as a picture this image or picture is rather unsubstantial as long as it stays in the depth of the mind as it gradually surfaces and resurfaces it is, then, externalised and concretised in some recognisable form, as speech thus, it logically follows, imaging precedes materialising or externalising or objectifying it is the quality of the mind that should be regarded as a mark of excellence when the image is transferred into speech so image making is a common feature with us and in this sense we are all artists now, mere objectifying is not the whole truth a true artist must bring his understanding of the subject matter into an accountable way and add to it the colour of imagination this capability, generally speaking, is an essential mark of a true artist, so much so that he, as an artist, develops the power to make the intelligent viewers happy in fact, painting like love and music, has the power to make man happy it is the interaction, between the painter and the viewer, that is the highest reward a painter can think of when it comes to considering the interaction among thought, language and painting we should at once take note of the fact that in terms of the jain philosophy the process of thinking is known as anekanta-drsti and that the manner and way of definitively expressing it through a comprehensible medium is generally called syadvada in terms of anekantavada, every phenomenon contains duality in it, so painting as a form of fine art cannot escape this duality or, for that matter, the concept of non-absolutism

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