Paint With Music

Music is art, but when people hear the word "art," they think of paintings, sculpture, photography, or other art forms. Yes, music is played by musicians, but the musicians consider themselves artists. There is also the term "folk art" and then there is folk music. The point being made is that confining the act of creation to mental images is limited thinking.

 

Think about the lyrics of a song and they will conjure up different images for different people. Then when the music is put on a television in the form of a music video, the music is played out in a different format. When a movie is played on the big screen it is now an art form. Music has form and shape, sound, and yes, even color. A music video tells a story like a movie, thus to be perfectly candid, music is art.

 

What if you were to listen to music and imagine the colors, listening to only instrumental music? Could a person paint what they hear or see in their mind what they hear? Could sound be an actual image transformed into a two-dimensional picture on a piece of paper based on what the mind creates when the sound travels through the airwaves and stimulates neurons and translates that into images? Yes, it could be, but people don’t traditionally think of music as art or art as music. 

 

When you go to an art gallery, a person doesn’t stand around and listen to music, they go in an look at art. A street performer is doing sidewalk art, or is the only art on the sidewalk done with chalk and a keen mind. No, a persons mind is complex and art can be in many forms. Nude art is an art form. Paintings another art form. Why not music as a form of art, played by artists that use the medium of notes, rhythm, and sound as their brush, the microphone as their easel and your ears as the canvas.

 

It is funny when a paradigm shift occurs, altering a standard concept and framing it differently. Music is art and music as art in the non logical assumption happens if we let it. For fun, find some folk music and see if you can’t find the art in it. Listen with your ears, shut your eyes and imagine the canvas in your mind. If a determined person had a mind too, they could paint music as art.

The Artist In You

   Everyone can be an artist. Art is not specific to people who have a talent for painting or drawing. In fact, anything that someone puts their heart into creating is an art form. Art can range from pottery to singing, from graphic design to writing a novel. There is no limit to what an artist is. And, there is no limit to finding the artist in you. Each of us contains an artist. Though it may be hidden away our whole lives, that artist is within us, and it does not take much to find it. 

      Think about what you love. If your heart is in card playing, then that can be an art form if you play with passion and you work hard on it. If you like designing websites and you seem to have a knack for it, and then the artist in you is a graphic designer, creating both beautiful and useful sites for people. Your artist may be an amazing singer, or maybe you can do sign language to songs and create a beautiful dance. There are many ways to be an artist, and so many people think that they could never be an artist for they feel that only a select few have the talent and ability. That is not true. Just because you have talent in another area does not mean you are not just as much of an artist as your friend who can paint. Maybe you can design awesome children’s clothing or maybe you can sit down and write a heartfelt poem. All of these things are art forms. There is no limit.

 

    So you may wonder how to develop the artist hiding in you. It is simple. Find something you love, be it scrapbooking or personalizing your car, and follow your passion. Accept that you are in fact an artist and let those skills and talents show. Do not be afraid to be proud of your art form. In fact, sharing the fact that you have found the artist in yourself can lead other people doing the same. Art of any type can be fun and therapeutic, and if it has your heart, it can be perfect. So do not be afraid of the artist in you.