A beautiful environment promotes health. Beauty and health are almost synonymous. Throughout creation they are intimately related. When we speak of a healthy forest, we see a beautiful and fertile natural environment. When we see a beautiful person, we see a healthy human being.
To be and stay healthy, we humans need to live surrounded by beauty. The way we decorate our homes and our work places impacts our state of mind, our health, and the way others relate to us in business and in the intimacy of friendship and love.
We see the same law connecting beauty and health in everything. We seek to travel to beautiful places to rest and be healed from the stress of ugly cities and the tiredness of body and soul they produce.
It is self-evident that the ultimate touch of beauty the Divine Artist added to Nature is in the mysterious splendor and fragrance of flowers. World cultures have adopted flowers’ wordless language to express all that is beautiful in our emotional lives. We give flowers to express love in ways words cannot match.
Viktoria Vidali’s masterful photographic art giclees capture the essence of universal floral radiance and bring into home or work spaces a magical artistic alchemy that transforms static environments into elegant ambiances, without forcing intrusive statements like other forms of art. For example, famous paintings like the Mona Lisa or Diego Rivera’s murals impose disturbing realities that are soon best relocated to the impersonal protection of a museum.
It is worth repeating: beauty is health and health is beauty. Together they manifest the greatest truth that guides our lives: that the path to happiness and peace is found in the magic and mystery of beauty. Viktoria’s giclees capture the silent song of Nature’s ultimate beauty and bring in the atmosphere of any place its secret healing powers. ~ Guest Writer: The Luminous Compass
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I agree that beauty and health are intimately connected and interdependent.
Dostoevsky once wrote: “Beauty will save the world.” Solzenitzen, in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, pondered: “How could that be possible? When in bloodthirsty history did beauty ever save anyone from anything? Ennoble, uplift, yes – but whom has it saved?” Of course, his very words, “ennoble, uplift” answered his own question.
The mysterious beauty of flowers expressed in an immeasurable variety of colors and an incomparable perfection of design has been blended in digital photography by an exceptional artist, Viktoria Vidali, into a healing emotional alchemy that not only fortify emotional and physical health but also deepen awareness of mutual love as it subtly kindles affinity into lasting friendship.
This uncompromising opinion may sound hard to believe, but there is, in fact, a certain power, according to Solzenitzen, in the essence of beauty, a magical force that is best manifested by true art. In other words, the power of a true work of art to influence and convince is irresistible and can force even unhappy hearts to surrender to joy.
I’m an Italian journalist and marine researcher living on the shores of the Sea of Cortez who discovered Viktoria’s art when she visited Bahia de Los Angeles.