Category Archives: ART

Paintings, photography, aesthetic objects, beautiful communication, and anything I consider to be art, artful, artistic, artsy or whatever.
Art is subjective. It is a quality of communication can be contributed to by the viewer through empathy or agreement with its creator.

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9 Principles of Japanese Aesthetics

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As a painter and writer I was delighted by this wonderful article about the aesthetics of the Japanese.  In my opinion, no culture on Earth has a more highly refined sense of aesthetic. The principles of Japanese art described in this article are eloquently illustrated!

9 Principles of Japanese Art and Culture

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LET IT BE PREDETERMINED

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LET IT BEFatalism: noun —  resignation, stoicism, acceptance of the inevitable;

Stoicism: noun — the endurance of pain or hardship without a display of feelings and without complaint.   synonyms: patience, forbearance, resignation, fortitude, endurance, acceptance, tolerance

Predeterminism: noun — the idea that all events are determined in advance.[Predeterminism is the philosophy that all events of history, past, present and future, have been already decided or are already known (by God, fate, or some other force), including human actions.

Predestination; noun — a doctrine or theory common to many of the prevalent religions such as Christianity, Islam Buddhism and Hinduism. Some of the features of it apparently seem identical with each other in every religion but the spirit of this concept generally varies in all to cause the bewilderment in the human community as to which of these explanations is based on truth.