Does Art Reflect it's own Spirit: Is the Artist's Spirit changed by becoming Art? →

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Artists’ inner feelings and emotions can be the voice of their spirit wanting to be heard. Feelings turn into powerful emotions that have their say and reflect the happenings in their life. Art becomes the tool for the spirit expressed using art.

Art may be presented to entertain or influence others; in those cases, it may draw more from the art’s goal than the artist’s feelings.

The totality of society and culture can be represented in art, becoming a form of collective expression.

The positioning of people, objects, and colors reflects the artists' personalities and spirits. When an artwork has a hidden or obvious meaning, you may feel the artist’s soul. The goal for the author would be for you to feel what they feel or think you should feel.
Joseph Heinrich Beuys, a German artist and art theorist who died in 1986, believed in the "extended definition of art" in which everybody was an artist.

He once said, "every sphere of human activity, even peeling a potato, can be a work of art as long as it is a conscious act,"

For some, art depends on its purpose. I can be a means to truth or knowledge, the acquisition of truth. Art has even been called the avenue to the highest knowledge available to humans and a kind of knowledge impossible to attain by any other means.

Why would different people perceive art differently? One answer has to do not with art creation but with the perception of what is created.

Perception is conditioned by many factors, including political, social, cultural, gender, racial, and even the life story of the viewer. For all an artist intends to present, the object for the viewer is the art, not the artist.

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”

Art will impact our life journey we experience along the path. The influences change as we change. The forms of art that appeal to us change. We may at some point find art painted on canvas profound and then find we are influenced more by nature surrounding us. Those are influences of choice, but what society deems art impacts us all as well.

Monochrome Art Brings a Focus on Winter →

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Art is generally understood as any activity or product done by people with a communicative or aesthetic purpose—something that expresses an idea, an emotion, or, more generally, a worldview.

It is a component of culture, reflecting economic and social substrates in its design, and the use of colors can amplify those conclusions.

What do we say about art that wasn’t produced by humans but instead only perceived as art by humans? Is it art because it was perceived to be, or is it art regardless of whether humans observed and sensed it.

Contemporary artists and designers interpret the symbolic meaning by using black and white, making you concentrate on elements such as composition, value, lighting, and form. It can help focus on the image as a whole.

Another way to view black and white, as well as monochrome, is to consider color vs. ’s design. Picasso had a love affair with monochrome design versus color, and the artistic debate goes back to the Renaissance, with Picasso firmly on the side of black and white.

The artist presents testimony by revealing more than we see →

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Much has been said about art presenting a message transcending the content. What causes the items portrayed to have a message in addition to what is seen? Where did that message reside?

Perhaps a unique and previously inexperienced view of colors, shapes, and textures brings out memories or suggests them? Maybe it is the intensity of the color or the place of the object that we view that brings a previously unthought message to us?

Could a painting have a spirit of its own, and if so, is that spirit the poetry of the image that speaks to us?

Did the painting, or work of art, exist before it was found, and has it only been revealed? If images and art are displayed, then where and who is the original talent that the painter only uncovered.

Is art the artist’s testimony, or is the artist only the messenger?

Quotes to Ponder

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is a painting that is felt rather than seen.”  ― Leonardo da Vinci.  

Color fills the space, layers showing light, darkness, movement, peace, and beauty. Purple represents dignity, grandeur, mystery, independence, and especially magic.

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”  ― Pablo Picasso.

"He said it wasn’t our decision if “Art was art,” adding that, "We don't inform art, that art informs us.” - Leonardo da Vinci

A Painting is Poetry and Art in what it suggests and in your thoughts. →

Art is likely to be poetic if it leaves out detail or conceals information or suggests the interpretation of the detail. It may suggest the influences and moods that are poetic.

The composition of poetry implied draws strong parallels the message of the painting. It starts with an idea, a subject, a theme, or often a distinct feeling.

It is the artist that takes pen or brush to canvas or paper and brings the poetic message to life.

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” 
― Leonardo da Vinci

The color focuses the eye to the message of a marketplace which conveys where the center of excitement is. We feel the festive mood and if we relate to it then it is poetry to our soul.

This painting of the pioneer woman was painted as a mural by a pioneer artist, Minerva Teichert, across the entire front wall of this chapel above. I attended this chapel regularly in the 1950s, and it offered ample opportunities for interpretation.