IDEARTISM vs. REARTISM in Ten Different Colors. My Reflections on Art.

It was my birthday yesterday and since I am transitioning to a more challenging and engaging year of life, I decided to approach it differently and do something out of the normal while the birthday wishes were coming in. I have been working on this project for the past three weeks trying out several other designs before settling on this one that I decided to manipulate into other several colors with the help of the ever resourceful Sollo Kinuthia.

Orange – The color of social communication and optimism. I have had my own share of these over the past year. Its optimism and hunger for conversations that has brought me this far.

Yellow – The color of the mind and the intellect. I’m not so bad there. Still working on it.

Green – The color of balance and growth. I have self-reliance as a positive and possessiveness as a negative basing on this one. Let’s see how this year goes!

Blue – The color of trust and peace. As much as I claim to be liberal and free-minded, there is still some frigidity in here somewhere. This year, I am working on getting you out too!

Indigo – The color of intuition, idealism and structure. Well, I am an ideartist!

Purple – The color of imagination. Sometimes, I have termed my own imagination as immature or impractical. This year, I am going to stop being the one who is immature and impractical.

Turquoise - The color of communication and clarity of the mind. I see yoga coming my way this year! I need this so much.

Magenta – The color of universal harmony and emotional balance. Let my outlook on life be balanced and global. So help me God!

Brown – A serious down to earth color that relates to security, protection and material wealth. Let this be the year I get to get browner hehe!

Silver – The color or feminine energy. It is related to the moon and the ebb and flow of the tides. Let the waves and the waters carry treasures to my shore!

In undertaking this project and asking the question herein I decided to marry knowledge from the two things that have consumed much of my time over the past three years – art and politics. Ideartism is a term I have coined from merging two separate words (idealism and art). It therefore implies art that is not on real subjects but imagines the way things should be in art – free, risky, roaming, wild, out of this world. As you would know by now, reartism is coined from  the words realism and art. Reartism implies art that simply embraces the true nature of things in illustration and imagination- whether a drawing, poem or film. Anything!

If you consider yourself an artist of any type, kindly comment below with your answer to the question – whether you are an ideartist or a reartist and I will be glad to reply back. Meanwhile, look out for more of such art coming out soon!