Art & Photography.

Art and Painting has been there in human lives from the past thousands of years.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau once said,"The world of reality has its limits;the world of imagination is boundless."

It is art which gives limitless power to one's thoughts.

Everyone can draw,but how many do you think explain their thoughts through it?Its not that you need to have proper educational knowledge to know how to draw!I don't have any art certificate,as a matter of fact I never went to any drawing school.Yet I draw,and you can see that for yourself.

Everything has beauty in them,but its that some who see it.And those who see it speak through it without words.Beauty is something which is untamed,it can only be watched and desired.And what can be more beautiful than bringing the beauty to life?

"The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through."-Jackson Pollock 1912-1956

Artist believe that everything has life.Human,animals,nature,air,water and even a still object always has something to say,and it is they who put the words in.

Imagination,its something so beautiful that has been gifted to humans.We use our imagination to invent.When an apple fell from a tree it was Sir Issac Newton who used his imagination and discovered the 'Law of Gravity', isn't it? 

Edward Hopper said,"No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination." 

Imagination does not have boundaries,you could be anywhere in the world,maybe siting near a television,or chatting with friends;walking down a lane or even when you are lying down in your bed.And it is the Artists who find something to think about in every place they be at.

Paul Strand said,"The artist's world is limitless.It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away.It is always on his doorstep."

The famous Pablo Picasso said,"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

For some its a form of meditation,calming your soul with a beautiful thought.

There is this another thing that gives equal pleasure and happiness,which is also a form of art,i.e, Photography.

Photography and painting are similar in nature,they can both capture moments in time that are accurate.In the earliest days of photography,practitioners took their inspiration from paintings.And both use the artists imagination in order to capture what they are thinking.

"Be daring, be different, be impractical,be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safer,the creatures of the commonplace,the slaves of the ordinary." –Cecil Beaton.

Photography makes you see the world rather than just look at it.You need not own expensive camera to click a good photo,it isn't the camera that see the beauty,its your eyes that do and camera just captures what you have seen.

Similar words from Arnold Newman says,"A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they’ll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won’t do a thing for you if you don’t have anything in your head or in your heart."

I will give proof for that.The photographs that you see here has been clicked by a friend,who has no professional knowledge in photography,and it is his mere hobby that he clicks.And to top it all,he has used Samsung Galaxy Ace phone,5 megapixel camera to take these photo.

You have also seen the photographs clicked by me in the past posts,they were done by Sony Cyber shot,14.1 megapixel camera.There you can see,to get a good shot SLR camera isn't required but a good imagination to see the invisible is!

The Mount Everest Paintings by Von Gerard,who painted the mountain on an expedition with a science crew so because photography wasn't invented.Did they use camera to capture the moment?

"A good photograph is one that communicates a fact,touches the heart and leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it.It is,in a word,effective."–Irving Penn.

Painting alludes to its content,whereas the photograph summons it,from wherever and whenever.

"When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes.But when you photograph people in B&W,you photograph their souls!" —Ted Grant.

Different people imbibe beauty differently,some through painting and sketches and some through photograph.Rene Magritte said,"Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible." 

And it is the artist and the photographer who see it and bring them to life,giving meaning to its existence.

It is easy to see a photo or a sketch,but the thought it has in it is difficult to understand.

Edgar Degas once said,"Daylight is too easy.What I want is difficult – the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight."

Everyone knows how to click but not everyone understand the meaning of,what to click and when to click.

“There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.” – Robert Heinecken.

Nowadays artists have created ways to simulate both photograph and painting together.Usually now the incorporation of photography in artistic paintings and visa versa is done.And it is done by digital touch up of photographs and paintings.

"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."- Ambrose Bierce.

Art and Photography has always been linked throughout history and it continues to be used together.

“For me,the camera is a sketch book,an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.”-Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Here are the sketches done by Me and the photographs clicked by Dipankar Das (a friend) and this is his site https://www.facebook.com/d.photography975?ref=stream ..I hope you all enjoy them!