In the Eastern view Art is an integrate part of life itself, permeating every aspect of out living, and in the end , even becoming a means of attaining Moksha, or the absolute. In this view, art is in a sense, religion. Beethoven gave voice to the same feeling when he penned those famous lines to Bettina Brentano "I cannot but despise a world which fails to understand that music (his art of course) is a higher revelation then all philosophy and wisdom." Also in the Easters view the word of Art itself ---in ---the focal point, and not the artist. The song, and not the singer. This explains the fact that there are hardly and Bounarottis and Da Vincis in the East, where as there has always been a profusion of the likes of Pictas and Mona Lisas for thousands of years in and around the Sub-Continent that we now call India. Who painted the Sigiriya frescoes? around the Sub-Continent that we now call India. Sub-Continent that we now call India. Who painted the Sigiriya frescoes? There is no signature on there. Who composed the Jayamangala Gathas? There it is obvious that in the culture that is our birthing and heritage as Sri Lankans, Art has always been a way of living.Art is also the way of living of Gamini Wijesundara (in more ways than one), born as he was amidst the lush green fields of the Dmmbara Valley, where the terraced rice paddy itself, when seen from an elevation, is an abstract worthy of Paul Klee.