Flow of inspiration: Water in traditional art

Flow of inspiration can be clearly seen in water being an impossible theme in most ancient types of art from time immemorial. For instance, in the classical arts of East Asia, in Chinese landscape painting, and also in ink painting in Japan it assumes the form of a metaphor for serenity and placidity in that which is of life, which sooner or later is going to pass on into oblivion. Flowing rivers and waterfalls-those calm lakes-they tell much of harmony and balance between man and nature. Such is the Japanese concept of "wabi-sabi": imperfection and transience that bring beauty, something often repeated in water's surface changing.

Water has been painted in west-end art since centuries and great artists like J.M.W. Turner have become perfect to paint the chaos as well as the turbulent side of water in seascapes. Infact, the art work of Turner's "The Fighting Temeraire" along with "Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth" captures both power as well as mystery associated with water because it epitomizes concepts related to change, time as well as motion.

Modern Water Art New Age of Innovation

Water, from a very simplistic conceptual representation in modern and contemporary art, developed into an actual medium for artistic expression. One can play with concepts of fluidity, transparency, and reflectivity as many modern artists did when creating one's thought-provoking immersive installation through water. In any form, people should experience changes in thoughts with it.