Monday, January 24, 2022

Beauty Is Life Affirming

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty


 Twilight Woods
Acrylic paint on canvas
24" x 48" (61.0 cm x 121.9 cm)
201708086
© copyright Mike Kraus Art Inc.

Beauty is an affirmation of life that can soothe us while in distress.  Art is a hidden reconciliation of opposites creating harmony from chaotic elements.  This is an energy that removes societal blocks and reimagines our cultural structures.  It breaks rigid, obsolete, and oppressive rules in exchange for higher values.  It challenges and engages us toward more freedom.  To observe this, we need to respect and allow contemplation.  Time with no destination, pressure, activity, distractions, or purpose.  Allowing yourself “boredom” clears away the poisonous mental clutter and grants the mind space for creativity.  Strategic and purposeful procrastination to think of a goal or option is good.  This allows you to take in wider alternatives that are more creative and effective.  Immediate productivity freezes creativity in exchange for quick and often less efficient results. The mind needs time to simmer on intimate thoughts for pattern recognition.  Our brains want to create meaning, sense, and order.  So much so that our experiential memories will purposely change to “make sense” of situations.  Art is not the solution to the world’s problems.  It is a device of contemplation for a human mind that creates and solves its own problems.

Do you allow yourself quiet relaxation?  If so, how: a relaxing bath, long hikes in the wilderness, listening/playing music?  Do solutions to problems pop in your head when you stop thinking about them?


 Chicago Alley
acrylic paint on canvas board
16" x 20" (40.6 cm x 50.8 cm) 
201811125
© copyright Mike Kraus Art Inc.

Mike Kraus was born on the industrial shoreline of Muskegon, Michigan. After earning his Fine Arts Degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he attended Grand Valley State University for his graduate degree.  From there, he gained varied experiences from the Chicago Architecture Foundation, Art Institute of Chicago, Hauenstein Center For Presidential Studies, Lollypop Farm Humane Society, and the Children's Memorial Foundation.  And every place he worked, he had his sketchbook with him and found ways to be actively creative.  In 2014, Kraus became a full-time artist by establishing Mike Kraus Art.  Since then, he has sold thousands of paintings that are displayed in nearly every state and dozens of countries.  Currently, Kraus lives in Rochester, New York with his beautiful wife and goofy dog.

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