Thank you!
 

This is a great idea. It's definitely nice to surround oneself with beauty instead of dwelling on any negativity :)

Oh, I really do like your flower photo. You cropped it very nicely. You have a good eye for the natural world.

I like the formal art, too. As suggested before it would be nice if you could note who the artist was. I also have a terrible memory. :)

Steve

Art gets through to people faster and deeper than politics
 

This thread about beauty is the creation of Bluedahlia; in a site about suffering, she posted page after page of stunning beauty. And 29,000 pageviews: 29,000 clicks for beauty, on a forum that deals with suffering and cruel death. We need art and truth and wonderment as much as we need sinemet.

My wife and I lived on a Reservation and have been active for 40 years with Innu and Inuit; that is our first cause; Parkinson’s comes next. Now I am mixing the two: I understand why, for example, Igloolik has a suicide rate 10 times higher than average; tuberculosis 14 times more… but I do not understand why Inuit would have double the rate of Parkinson’s, and I intend to find out.

I have been busy in “Idle No More”, an ongoing protest movement originating among some Aboriginal people in Canada

It’s a dangerous racial political football that Canada keeps fumbling, so I consciously chose Bluedahlia’s method: lash out with beauty and humanity.

We gathered 15 videos, hoping that Canadians will SEE the native people they are spurning, just as we want People With Parkinson’s to be visible, to be SEEN as human beings, not just stared at as aberrations.

http://parkinsonsdance.blogspot.com/...hapter-50.html

Please pass it on if you see fit. It’s about Beauty.

Look back at the artwork Bluedahlia posted here. You can’t get angry and destructive when confronted by beauty. Art gets through to people faster and deeper than politics. People are hungry for food for the soul. The pre-verbal; below intellect and below ideas, and below words; yes, even below emotions: there is the pre-verbal. That’s where we are hurt and that is where we must heal.

If that is just a placebo effect, please, please bring on every placebo you can find.

art on the web - links
 

Hi, what a great idea - I had not thought about viewing art on my computer - too busy googling etc. Soothing and takes my mind away from PD thinking!

Coincedently, I was at the Apple MacWorld a few weeks ago and listened to a talk "art goes digital" - about where to find art on the internet:

artsy.net - a variety of pieces

googleartproject.com - I think google drove their cam cars around major galleries and took hi res photos

artauthority.net - more collections but I think this is an ipad app

I haven't really explored these links in any detail, but I'm sure there's lots more and apologies if this info is already buried in the thread

btw, 2 out of 3 of my kids are serious artists, and I'm not - go figure

Thanks to whoever started this discussion...

Brian

Something a little different......

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It's been too long since I visited this thread~ my heart swells and my spirit soars when I touch on beauty, connect with others who thrive on beauty. Thank you all. Every time I feel sad or discouraged I take my camera and go in search of beauty, or I make something, anything! Here's a token of my gratitude...