picasso, is perfect. study his colors plattee that is your zen. it al makes since. the maddness is cubism. he would walk around his subject matter and get three or four visuals. dali with his surrealism. pure maddness in a zen like world.the era of impression was very zen, such as matise the water lilies. however the maddess of it all is the size of the piece.however everyone interpertation is different at different tmes, so therefore if your connection with the universe is sincere and you can,take the negitive enrgy into a postive you have a zen feeling.now doing that is different. during the hippie days it was peace and love. not war. but we were in war.it will look different to everyone and feel diffrent to everyone, because of interpitation. good luck . miss you.p.s. dont cut your ear off like van gogh did. love momma