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09/20/2004: "Art is communication on a very deep level"
I'll simply begin by telling you my own art-story.
I began painting only a few years ago. I had no artistic training - I am a psychologist - and by lack of techniques I invented, a bit by coincidence, my own technique. I was surprised about what arised!
I showed my paintings to a professor of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and she was really touched. She encouraged me to bring my art in society. Two weeks later I got my first exhibition!
Soon I put my paintings on the internet, on my own site and on absolutearts. You cannot imagine what happened! Immediately I got dozens of messages from people from all over the world, not only telling me they liked my art, but also sharing things about their lifes, about their joy and pain, about their desire to beauty and to live who they really are...
This was amazing!
Without knowing, without purpose, without intention I had expressed things of myself of a very deep level of being and by doing that I had provoked communication with other people on a the same very deep level of being!
By looking at my paintings they went into themselves, they felt their own feelings and desires, brought them in their awareness and began to communicate about itŠWhat a wonderful process to see, especially for a psychologist!
This process keeps going on, all the time.
This event opened my eyes and heart for a lot of new things, a lot of new insights, a lot of new joyŠabout life , about communication, about what Art can do in the development-process of peopleŠWhat a beauty!
I'll continue sharing it...
With love,
Monique Veyt
