Arts, Music, Beauty and Humanities

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Art

Music 

Dance

Poetry 

Photography 

Humor and comedy 

Emotion 

Beauty 

Romance 

Sex

Art also comprises of architecture, literature, prose, theater, drama, presentation, decoration, cosmetic, costume designing, fashion

 

Major constituents of the arts include visual arts (including architecture, ceramics, drawing,   filmmaking, painting, photography, and sculpting), literature (including fiction, drama, poetry, and prose), and performing arts (including dance, music, and theatre), culinary arts (including cooking, chocolate making and winemaking).

 

Some art forms combine a visual element with performance (e.g. cinematography), or artwork with the written word (e.g. comics). From prehistoric cave paintings to modern-day films, art serves as a vessel for storytelling and conveying humankind's relationship with the environment.

 

Edited July 9, 2020 by Preety_India

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Humanities 

The humanities include the study of ancient and modern languages, literature, philosophy, history, archaeology, anthropology, human geography, law, politics, religion, and art. Scholars in the humanities are "humanity scholars" or humanists.

 

Here are five good, short definitions of the humanities.

“The humanities—including the study of languages, literature, history, jurisprudence, philosophy, comparative religion, ethics, and the arts—are disciplines of memory and imagination, telling us where we have been and helping us envision where we are going.”

 

Fields of Study in the Arts & Humanities

Archaeology.

Psychology

Comparative religion.

History.

Literature, languages and writing.

Media and communications studies.

Performing arts.

Philosophy.

Visual and studio art.

 

[Preety_India]

Fantasy and mystery (horror genre) is also included. 

Like goth. 

Cultural trends like goth 

 

 

Edited July 9, 2020 by Preety_India

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Now this is something 

 

 

[Florian]

 

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@Florian nice

 

[Florian]

@Preety_India I really love "The Awesome Piano". After listening to it a few times it's my favorite piece of music now.

And the Africa cover was the first video I found from him. 

[Preety_India]

@Florian awesome 

 

[Florian]

@Preety_India haha you are awesome too 

[Preety_India]

 

@Florian

 

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Proficiency in language is also a part of arts. 

 

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I have enrolled in for a online Portuguese class and course from the Getúlio Vargas Foundation. This is online business program that will also teach me important skills. 

This was given to me by the online Portuguese group I'm associated with and they are great with international sales and business. 

I also get to learn Portuguese in the meanwhile which is awesome. 

So they have this skills package I'm enrolled in. Online skills training. 

I will call this GVFST Getúlio Vargas Foundation skills training 

 

So I begin my GVFST program today. 

I'll record the progress in this journal from time to time but not on a regular basis. 

 

[Preety_India]

Sales pitch is also a part of arts but it's more like marketing. 

 

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So yesterday I did some digital art

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I always had a penchant for arts and humanities. 

I forgot craft is also a part of art. 

Even hobbies like stamp collecting or gardening 

Making little objects out of waste like DIY crafts. 

Making your own jewelry. I love this. 

Any form of creativity. 

I always show my stuff to Andrew. 

 

 

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Even designing covers and making greeting cards 

I work with a local orphanage now where I teach kids basic skills and crafts and language for free of course. 

It's difficult because of the coronavirus so I Skype and teach them. They are loving it. 

Whatever I get to learn I teach them. This will help them grow creative skills 

 

It's a satisfying for me that I'm doing something for my community. 

 

I like doing little stuff for the environment.. Since I went Vegan, this has become easier for me.. 

I also want to teach those orphanage kids some recipes 

 

 

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I have to seriously focus on GVFST 

I will need hardcore discipline. 

 

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Wabi Sabi art 

Just gonna add that here

 

 

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So I wrote a post long ago about Wabi Sabi. Fished it out from my old journal. Dated. 18th April 2019.

 

It was informative. And I was digging into Wabi Sabi at that time. 

On 4/18/2019 at 3:15 AM, Preety_India said:

Personal Growth

Wabi-Sabi: The Japanese Philosophy For a Perfectly Imperfect Life

Thomas Oppong

Nov 1, 2018

Photo by Robbin Huang on Unsplash

Life is unpredictable. And that’s okay. Embrace it.

When nothing is certain, everything is possible!

Your plans for tomorrow, next month or next year may not unfold as you expect. But it’s important to make plans and move on.

Landon Donovan once said, “Life isn’t perfect, of course, but we all know it’s how you react to things that counts.”

Imperfection is the basic principle of Wabi-Sabi, the Japanese philosophy of accepting your imperfections and making the most of life.

“Wabi” is said to be defined as “rustic simplicity” or “understated elegance” with a focus on a less-is-more mentality.

“Sabi” is translated to “taking pleasure in the imperfect.”

The concept of wabi-sabi, is wide and almost impossible to distill in a single post, but can easily be applied simply to moments of everyday life.

The relentless pursuit of perfection — in possessions, relationships, achievements — often leads to stress, anxiety, depression and hasty judgement.

This is where wabi-sabi invites a pause.

The Japanese philosophy encourages us to focus on the blessings hiding in our daily lives, and celebrating the way things are rather than how they should be.

Wabi-sabi prizes authenticity.

Wabi-Sabi is “a way of life that appreciates and accepts complexity while at the same time values simplicity,” writes Richard Powell in his book, Wabi Sabi Simple.

Richard says it acknowledges three simple realities:

“Nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect.”

In Zen philosophy, there are seven aesthetic principles in achieving wabi-sabi:

Kanso — simplicity

Fukinsei — asymmetry or irregularity

Shibumi — beauty in the understated

Shizen — naturalness without pretense

Yugen — subtle grace

Datsuzoku — freeness

Seijaku — tranquility

The timeless wisdom of wabi-sabi is more relevant now than ever for modern life, as we search for meaning and fulfilment beyond materialism.

Wabi-sabi is like minimalism with a conscious choice.

The concept has its roots in the traditional Japanese tea ceremony.

A common explanation is the example of a well-loved teacup, made by an artist’s hands, cracked or chipped by constant use.

Such traces remind the observer that nothing is permanent — even fixed objects are subject to change.

A great example of wabi-sabi in creativity is the art of kintsugi, where cracked pottery is filled with gold dusted lacquer as a way to showcase the beauty of its age and damage rather than hiding it.

The fault is not hidden but highlighted.

This is not to say the Craftsman was sloppy (wabi-sabi isn’t an excuse for poor craftsmanship). Wabi-sabi draws attention to the cracks in a tea cup as part of the beauty of the object.

In his book The Unknown Craftsman, Soetsu Yanagi argues that imperfections are necessary for a full appreciation of the object and the world.

We in our own human imperfections are repelled by the perfect, since everything is apparent from the start and there is no suggestion of the infinite.

Wabi-sabi is everywhere, you just need to know how to look, and what to do to embrace the concept in your life.

The cracks in the old teacup are seen as assets rather than flaws.

“Wabi sabi is a different kind of looking, a different kind of mindset,” explains Robyn Griggs Lawrence, author of Simply Imperfect: Revisiting the Wabi-Sabi House . “It’s the true acceptance of finding beauty in things as they are,” he says.

What does it take to embrace Wabi-sabi in your life?

Robyn explains that you don’t money, or special skills to appreciate your imperfections and make the most of life.

Bringing wabi-sabi into your life doesn’t require money, training, or special skills. It takes a mind quiet enough to appreciate muted beauty, courage not to fear bareness, willingness to accept things as they are — without ornamentation. It depends on the ability to slow down, to shift the balance from doing to being, to appreciating rather than perfecting.

Mike Sturm says Wabi-sabi is about accepting yourself and building on what you already have in life. He writes.

Embracing wabi-sabi is as easy (or as difficult) as understanding and accepting yourself — imperfections and all. It’s about being compassionate with yourself as you are, and building on whatever that is — not feverishly trying to rebuild yourself in order to pose as something else entirely.

Today, appreciation of the things we have, people we love, and the experiences we have the opportunity to weave into our lives is losing value.

Wabi-sabi represents a precious cache of wisdom that values tranquillity, harmony, beauty and imperfection, and can strengthen your resilience in the face of materialism.

It gently motions you to relax, slow down, step back from the hectic modern world and find enjoyment and gratitude in everything you do.

Put simply, wabi-sabi gives you permission to be yourself.

Embrace the perfection of being imperfectly you.

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