Art is Beauty, Artificial, and Morally Ambiguous

Illuminated Rose Candle

Art, in its very existence, is everything. Expression of what is beautiful and what is not. What it makes me feel when I do is like meditating on a rose. It illuminates the darkness in my little world and brings out the artist in me. That blossoms "like a red, red rose." -Me

Art is beauty. Art is simple and ethereal. It is filled with life, energy, passion, seduction, grace, and some elements of truth integrated in a single piece... like a rose. I can't say enough about it, in fact, I'm at a loss for words when I marvel at its significance and how much it is associated with beauty (among other things). A red rose, such as this, can be described in poetry, story, song, maybe even in a dance. 

As you're looking at the image above, you must wonder about the artist's intention to create that overwhelming "radiance" (I think it's exaggerated because there's already some small ray of light coming from the center) in a rose to emphasize that it's greater than it already is. Or maybe you could just look at it and get a sense of it's magnificence. Close to perfection. As if there's nothing too overbearing in its composition from this angle. 

If you're looking at it from the latter's point of view, then you'll have the amateur (me!) and not the original artist to thank for that! If you can see that it's rather overdone with the luminescence or something and maybe get rid of the fluff that surrounds it, then it's totally possible to find an earlier version of it. The original work titled "Meditative Rose" is actually a painting done by a true master: Salvador Dali. Among all his most famous pieces, this one stands out to me as the most captivating portrayal of the beauty in nature with almost no hint of indecent ambiguity. 

You see, sometimes looking at art too closely can give you strange ideas and somehow you were able to catch on to the actual meaning behind the work. For me, I prefer to see the beauty of it if that is what the artist intended rather than what it might mean.