Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty
Art is for influencing the mind; good and bad. This influence can be an imitation of life, truer than life, communication, pure form, or other aesthetic. In a free and open society, nothing is more important than a proper education with a free exchange of honest ideas. And this learning requires an understanding of the arts. Competent training in images, forms, writing, mass media, and other creations immunizes us from deception, manipulation, and enslavement by those wishing to be tyrants. Arts need to be a source of truth through the use of honest arguments; not a tool of purposeful lies for propaganda. Disinformation should be vigorously fought (https://www.stophateforprofit.org/). Providing clarity to the intellect is the highest honor for an artist.
What guides you? What principles do you believe? Do you really believe them or are they just empty words? Is it just dogma or do your ideas grow and mature when you learn?
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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