Challenge
To Express A Feeling
One of the most apparent intentions of art is to express an emotion or experience that is to great to be summed up into one word. Within art, it a labeled emotion that holds a complex ocean of secrets and feelings. One may summarize how they feel by saying that they're happy or sad, but this may be but an understatement to a profound freedom and joy that can only be compared to a bird set free. Or perhaps, it is an understatement of a darkness that holds a beauty that consumes any beholder until they are forced to confront the undying loneliness that can only be compared to an abyss of cold solidarity? Regardless of the emotion, art is what expresses and defines an emotion that cannot be summarized into one word. That being said, pick an emotion to describe. It can be any emotion, and it can be described in any way!
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The Night Cafe
there's a painting
by Vincent van Gogh
of a bar all in reds and yellows
a master work
before 90's hip hop could be blasted
into the eardrums of clientele
they say he painted his best work
in a psychiatric hospital
in two years
where he was self-admitted
just like in a dive bar
it's important to know
when you've had enough
and you need to decompress
inside what will be
infamous