Music and Art – A harmonious relationship!!!

Music is an art of expressing ones feelings. Adjusting a piece to the perfect rhythm, variation in the tempo makes one get the feel of the music. Listening to a piece of music sometimes gives a good mood and refreshes one from fatigue. Similarly, a painters stroke makes it feel the same. When an artist draws, his every stroke is detailed and accurate. Talking about accuracy, music and painting both need to be given a good finishing all together so that the entire picture is depicted before you through its strokes, which makes you sway resembling the waves in the ocean.

I was just sitting one day and thought what if music and painting be interrelated? What a thought. A stroke on a paper and a chord on instrument say it all. When a rhythm of music sets into your mind, you immediately start swaying to the rhythm of music. Similarly, when music is played, the brushes of the painter automatically tango with the canvas. Rhythm in music is something you can tap your feet to. It tells you how to rock with the music. Rhythm affects art in a similar manner. If an artist uses rhythm correctly, he or she is capable of making your eyes move around every corner of the paper within seconds. It is how the artist wants you to see his/her work.

Sometimes rhythm and the piece are difficult to be understood by a common man who has no knowledge about music, similarly a stroke of a painter fails a normal man to understand what he wants to reveal. The musical notes increase in frequency at a predetermined ratio and so do colour. Moreover, music and art have many things in common such as the pattern, rhythm, balance and emphasis. As each tone has a certain weight which gives a song its overall balance, correspondingly same principle is applied by artists to add structure and balance the painting.

In a palette, the artist mixes the colours and comes up with a unique colour, likewise, the musician combines different notes and composes his own music.  As the process proceeds, painting and music do converge as construction becomes more mysterious, if it does not fade away altogether.

Music and painting have many things in common such as pattern, colour, shape and form, but the way of expressing the emotion varies in language.

PM breaks the grip on corruption and Black money

A lot of beds in Gujarati households are going to seem uncomfortable tonight as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a televised address to the nation on Tuesday, Nov 8 2016, that the legal tender character of the notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denomination notes stands withdrawn from midnight. The old high denomination (OHD) notes can be exchanged for value at any of the 19 offices of the Reserve Bank of India or at any of the bank branches or at any Head Post Office or Sub-Post Office.

Why is this scheme?

This scheme has been introduced because of the increase in the fake currency notes in higher denomination. This has increased the usage of fake notes in antinational and illegal activities such as these notes have been misused by terrorists and for hoarding black money. India being cash based economy; Fake India Currency Notes continues to be a menace.  Introduction to such schemes may control the raising incidents of fake money.

This huge step is taken like a surgical strike on Black money, to curb circulation of counterfeit notes and also fight the black money which has rapidly snapped the country’s economy.

Notes Legal and Illegal:

The RBI has intimated that it is withdrawing currency notes that are issued prior to 2005, to ensure that the notes in circulation are of similar design. All notes where the year has not been mentioned have to be exchanged. The notes issued prior to 2005 are considered to be illegal. These notes can be identified easily as these notes do not have the year of printing mentioned on them. These notes have to be exchanged in the banks till December 30, 2016. For example: If a Rs 500 note mentions the year 2013 is considered as legal. But the note does not mention the year or if it is printed 2004 is considered as a mere piece of paper.

Further Assistance:

For further queries, you may approach the control room of RBI by email or on Telephone Nos 022 22602201/022 22602944