| Welcome To Shard 2! | | | | looker, about what feelings he is to have, about |
| If you have read shard one of this chain of articles, | | | | himself. |
| on "composition in custom oil painting", then I | | | | What Are The Best Trees? |
| welcome you, most heartily, to shard 2. | | | | A tree, that is healthy and tall, with leaves, flowers, |
| If you did not read shard one, then I'll give to you a | | | | or fruit, tells the looker to feel well about himself. It |
| clue about that, which you missed: it was the | | | | tells him to have life abundantly. An end, of his feeling |
| uncovering of marks, left on the viewer's mind, by | | | | so, about himself, would be his success. |
| positive, versus negative tokens; and how every | | | | If we truly care about someone, then our art painting |
| token, whether good or bad, has its own right, and | | | | gifts, and presents, to that someone, ought to have, |
| useful, time and spot. | | | | in them, tokens, that are wholesome. |
| The Jungian Mandala Is The Highest Of All Art | | | | The tall, and healthy, tree tells the looker to see |
| Symbols | | | | himself as inwardly strong. The oil painting artist, who |
| Judging by all the lore, that I have been yet able to | | | | knows his stuff, will display the tall and healthy tree in |
| get, I find that the "Jungian mandala" is the highest | | | | the gifts, that he paints. |
| of all tokens. Because of that, every artwork ought | | | | The custom oil painting, that shows a lush, green tree |
| to be a mandala - or ought to be an element, in a | | | | tells the looker to have hope, to desire, to be safe, |
| display of furniture, that makes a Jungian mandala. | | | | and to be stable. |
| Yet, it is now too early in the development of the | | | | What About Sick Or Defoliated Trees? |
| Jungian Mandala Movement, for me to cause you to | | | | Otherwise, a sick, or defoliated, wintry tree tells the |
| accept the idea, to make your every custom oil | | | | looker to feel that he is incomplete, inwardly weak, |
| painting to be a Jungian mandala. | | | | or undeveloped. Art gifts for our loved one ought |
| Because of the too-soon-ness, I hope to entice you, | | | | not to show any tree except a healthy one. |
| bit-by-bit, into that thought, by telling to you, first, of | | | | When we consider custom oil painting, as one of our |
| the betokening of the palm tree, and how you might | | | | gift ideas, then it behooves us to think of the |
| put it to use, in your art works composition. | | | | possibility of adding a tall, healthy tree to the |
| Palm Trees Are Trees, Too! | | | | composition. |
| Since a palm tree happens to be a tree, it, therefore, | | | | You may remember, that I told to you, that I |
| shares the symbolic impact, of all other trees. Thus | | | | studied graphology. That is the art of handwriting |
| begin we with the symbolism of trees, per se. | | | | analysis. It divides up the writing space into symbolic |
| Please, I beg of you, bear in mind, that to interpret a | | | | areas. Healthy movement is upward and to the right. |
| symbol is a subjective process, in most cases. The | | | | This is confirmed by other research, such as hand |
| expert must be an intuitive person. I have gotten | | | | motions and eye movements. |
| some interpretations from websites about dreams, | | | | What About Trees That Block The Flowing? |
| and some from websites, of intuitive folks, who are | | | | I suspect that a tree, in a work of oil painting art, |
| not dealing with only dreams. | | | | when put on the extreme right-hand side of the |
| What Betoken Trees In An Artwork? | | | | page, could form a symbolic barrier. |
| Here is some, of the lore, that I discovered, about | | | | If the view of the tree is so close, that the stem, or |
| the meaning of trees, in dreams, in one's | | | | the tree, appears to block the eye's movement, or |
| consciousness, and in culture. Any of the following | | | | the flowing of the composition, from moving to the |
| may apply to art paintings, as well. | | | | upper right-hand edge of the picture, then the tree |
| Trees, seen from within a grove, an orchard, or from | | | | may betoken an obstacle, even death. |
| within a greenwood, betoken the character of the | | | | Because of all that, it is important that views of |
| people who surround us. It has been said, that the | | | | trees be from slightly afar, or else there be space |
| height, of the trees, betokens the height, of our | | | | around the tree, or, if the tree is close to the looker, |
| ambitions. To see the treetops, it has been said, | | | | it ought to be on the left. |
| betokens attainment of our ambitions. | | | | For example, a photo, or other work of art, that |
| Seen from a distance, in art works, such as art | | | | uses a tree stem, or tree limbs, to frame the picture, |
| drawings, or fine art paintings, the same trees might | | | | ought to place the tree on the left, and to leave the |
| betoken a social setting, which we view from afar, | | | | right-hand space to be open. |
| not having gone into it yet, as, for example, a | | | | What Are The Exceptions? |
| traveler might see a town from miles away, before | | | | Exceptions, whereof I can now think, are 2. One |
| he ever goes into it. | | | | exception would be a picture, that is to be used in a |
| What Means A Solitary Tree? | | | | mandala-arrangement of furniture. |
| A solitary, or focal, tree, in a custom oil painting, | | | | Exception, number 2, would be if the picture contains |
| betokens the person-who-looks-at-the-art, the | | | | a Jungian mandala composition in the middle, then it |
| looker, himself. | | | | shouldn't matter if the right-hand edge is "blocked" by |
| When you consider a painting, or oil portrait as a | | | | "framing", of a tree, or of any other object. Here I |
| possible gift, see whether a lone tree is in the | | | | am only guessing, though it is, for true, an educated |
| composition. The condition, of the tree, tells the | | | | guess. |