Sahaja Yoga Arts

Enso, Zen circle, by Hakuin Ekaku Zenji (1686-1769)

What is it in an artwork that enables it to transcend the limitations of the culture in which it was created, giving it a universal appeal? Why do the works of Shakespeare, Michaelangelo or Mozart have the ability to move audiences so powerfully, hundreds of years after they were produced, in a culture and society with vastly different values and preoccupations to that of their original audience?

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“Poetry fettered fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed, or flourish, in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish!”

William Blake, from Jerusalem (written 1880-1820)

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Painter Beverley Budgen has recently been invited by the Cairns Regional Gallery in Australia to hold a solo retrospective exhibition that will including a selection from previous 20 solo shows from over 35 years, plus new works. The show is due to open in May 2010. The Gallery has allotted the large gallery space for this major retrospective of Beverley’s work.

MEREDITH COOPER

2008 EXHIBITION @ LOUMAX GALLERY
10 MAY – 10 JUNE 2008

Loumax Gallery, 56a Lovel Street, Katoomba.

10.00am - 5.00pm Thursday to Sunday
(02) 4782 3490
loumaxgallery@aapt.net.au

Click here to see more of Meredith’s work

They are the loveliest flowers of creation, sweetest dreams of the Creator, the dearest parts of the human society. Perhaps they do not know how they are loved, worshipped and followed by their spectators.

If an artist finds his countrymen being unpatriotic or cowardly, he can, through his art, inspire them and can serve the role of a brave soldier. Thus he can serve the society through others, by creating a deep impact on their minds. Such is the motivating force of an artist.

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Art has something to do with your heart and not with your brain.
(Shri Mataji, Shri Hanuman Puja 1989)

All creations which were dedicated to God in the olden times are being today very much respected, and people pay a lot of money for that. Maybe at that time the artists must have suffered, but they understood. Innocent artists understood very much that ‘If we have to express, we must truthfully do it not to please – not to please the people, not to please anyone, but to please God.

Shri Ganesha Puja 1993

In the modern times when everything is moving very fast, it is very difficult for a single person to achieve anything without compromising with the trend of the world. Hence, it is absolutley essential that those artists who seek freedom and who believe that they have to play a vital role to further the cause of art, should give up their petty differences and jealousies and unite together. If such a group of artists decides to accept good in their personal, economic and social life, and pledge not to deviate from the straight path, then no power, however destructive, can lay hands on them. Unity of purpose can only grant them all security needed for the creation of their art… Artists have to raise the public eye to their standard of taste and not to stoop down to the cheap demand of the public and thus surrender their freedom.
From ‘Heralding a New Age of Joy and Spiritual Fulfillment’

A person who is a genius is a person who has those sensitivities. The mind which is covered with thoughts, which is thickened, which is gross, can be thinned out at certain points. For example, some people could be very sensitive to music. Some could be to art. Some could be to human beings. Some could be to other things which might make them of rare people. But these subtler things, which create your personality, always indicate in your being that there is something of the beyond, which are throwing in some images within you. Such people are conscious of them, that there are some images which are throwing these subtle ideas within you. They are erupting some new commotiom within you and, once you start seeing them, you’re compelled to put them down somewhere. That’s how the poets are created, musicians are created, great masters are created.
London 1980