Beautiful Mind

It’s been a long time since I wrote anything over here. May be that’s the reason the title reflects the cause. Some event took place lately which made me to think what TV series I liked in my childhood. The list is not too big, or I should say there is no list at all. It's just a couple.

Bharat Ek Khoj, Discovery of India
Written by Jawaharlal Nehru and directed by Shyam Benegal

I am not that good at all in history. That’s the last Subject I ever used to touch in school. I am kind of lucky that the serial started at the right time when we had same topics in our history lessons. In this modern world of machines, it was hard for me to imagine what could have happened in the past and how the civilization took place. This series gave me a path to find the truth by myself and the sense of direction to make my history paper better than ever. And again it's all history, do not attempt to ask any history questions to me.

Kshitij Yeh Nahin

This is one of those series which I never missed. It ran just for about 3 month and I never used to miss it. This is the time when I started thinking about paintings. The title song was so pleasant. During the course of the song the sketch will appear with few lines and gradually emerge in a portrait of a lady. Pleased my heart so many times. Whenever I feel short of any ideas for my painting I recall the moment of joy I found watching this sketch being built; The secret of my wild imagination and black & white sketches.

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling It.” a great saying by someone which everybody uses when they are talking about Art. But no one knows who said this. When I searched on the internet I found a name - "Frank Zappa".

But what I am trying to say is not about this person, but about ART itself. If I was a narrator them what could be the first question I would have asked you? Yes! That’s correct.

"Do you know how many kinds or forms of Art exits?"

Let me tell you something. I had no idea about the answer till now. Whenever a topic on art is raised I always have two things in mind; paintings and drawings. The reason is obvious.

As I found Frank, who is very close to me now since I am using his quote to start with, I started searching on internet again about Art. There are many sites which give information on this, but what other site could have given me insight more that an encyclopedia-'Wikipedia'.

I was amazed when I saw the list of Types of Art.

painting
drawing
printmaking
sculpture
music
poetry
architecture
cinema
theatre and many more.

Then I went to painting sections which gave me again 40+ types of painting type. Now I realized that it is now simple to be an artist. You can be a painter in one or two types of painting; you can be a musician in one or two forms, but not an artist, not a true artist.

And when it come to an artist great work this is the one who is looking for