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Architecture,
sculpture and painting, because they are the three great arts
which appeal to the spirit through the eye, are those too
in which the sensible and the invisible meet with the strongest
emphasis on themselves and yet the greatest necessity of each
other. The form with its insistent masses, proportions, lines,
colours, can here only justify them by their service for the
something intangible it has to express; the spirit needs all
the possible help of the material body to interpret itself
to itself through the eye, yet asks of it that it shall be
as transparent a veil as possible of its own greater significance.
Sri
Aurobindo
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Current
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VOL. I No.1
THEME
Of CURRENT ISSUE
The
Significance
Of
INDIAN ART
An e -zine from Search
For Light On
Architecture, Sculpture
and Paintings
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seeing in the self accordingly becomes the characteristic
method of the Indian artist and it is directly enjoined
on him by the canon. He has to see first in his spiritual
being the truth of the thing he must express and to create
its form in his intuitive mind; he is not bound to look
out first on outward life and Nature for his model, his
authority, his rule, his teacher or his fountain of suggestions.
Sri
Aurobindo
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The
Yogin's aim in the Arts should not be a mere aesthetic,
mental or vital gratification, but, seeing the Divine
everywhere, worshipping it with a revelation of the
meaning of its works, to express that One Divine in
Gods and men and creatures and objects. The theory that
sees an intimate connection between religious aspiration
and the truest and greatest Art is in essence right;
but we must substitute for the mixed and doubtful religious
motive a spiritual aspiration, vision, interpreting
experience. For the wider and more comprehensive the
seeing, the more it contains in itself the sense of
the hidden Divine in humanity and in all things and
rises beyond a superficial religiosity into the spiritual
life, the more luminous, flexible, deep and powerful
will the Art be that springs from that high motive.
-Sri Aurobindo
(From The Synthesis of Yoga)
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Painting |
The spirit and motive of Indian painting are in their
centre of conception and shaping force of sight identical
with the inspiring vision of Indian sculpture. All Indian
art is a throwing out of a certain profound self-vision
formed by a going within to find out the secret significance
of form and appearance, a discovery of the subject in
one's deeper self, the giving of soul-form to that vision
and a remoulding of the material and natural shape to
express the psychic truth of it with the greatest possible
purity and power of outline and the greatest possible
concentrated rhythmic unity of significance in all the
parts of an indivisible artistic whole.
SriAurobindo
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The gods of Indian sculpture are cosmic beings, embodiments
of some great spiritual power, spiritual idea and action,
inmost psychic significance, the human form a vehicle
of this soul meaning, its outward means of self-expression;
everything in the figure, every opportunity it gives,
the face, the hands, the posture of the limbs, the poise
and turn of the body, every accessory, has to be made
instinct with the inner meaning, help it to emerge, carry
out the rhythm of the total suggestion, and on the other
hand everything is suppressed which would defeat this
end, especially all that would mean an insistence on the
merely vital or physical, outward or obvious suggestions
of the human figure. Not the ideal physical or emotional
beauty, but the utmost spiritual beauty or significance
of which the human form is capable, is the aim of this
kind of creation.
Sri
Aurobindo
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great oriental work of art does not easily reveal its secret
to one who comes to it solely in a mood of aesthetic curiosity
or with a considering critical objective mind, still less
as the cultivated and interested tourist passing among strange
and foreign things; but it has to be seen in loneliness,
in the solitude of one's self, in moments when one is capable
of long and deep meditation and as little weighted as possible
with the conventions of material life.
Sri
Aurobindo
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The
theory of ancient Indian art at its greatest—and the greatest
gives its character to the rest and throws on it something
of its stamp and influence—is of another kind. Its highest
business is to disclose something of the Self, the Infinite,
the Divine to the regard of the soul, the Self through
its expressions, the Infinite through its living finite
symbols, the Divine through his powers. Or the Godheads
are to be revealed, luminously interpreted or in some
way suggested to the soul's understanding or to its devotion
or at the very least to a spiritually or religiously aesthetic
emotion.
Sri
Aurobindo
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Effort to reveal the richness, greatness, beauty and
majesty of the Consciousness (Human and Divine)
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