Artifact #7: Spirituality
Objectives
- Become familiar with ways in which spirituality influences artists
- Discuss the differences between spirituality and religion
- Examine spirituality as a generative force and a well spring for creativity
Original Post
- How do you define “spirituality”?
- Does spirituality differ from religion?
- How do you define “creativity”?
- What is the source of creativity?
In Wikipedia, spirituality means “a process of personal transformation in accordance with religious ideals. Since the 19th century spirituality is often separated from religion, and has become more oriented on subjective experience and psychological growth.”(Wikipedia) In my point of view, spirituality derived from inspiration and imagination. People can image base on their view and get the inspiration from imagination. This is a process of how the spirituality comes from. There are two part of spirituality. One is the postnatal spirituality that can be fostered by education. The other one is inborn spirituality. Inborn spirituality cannot be replicated and every person owns it.
I think the spirituality and religion is different. Religion is about someone’s belief and spirituality is something about the spirit world. The religious spirituality is another thing and is a type of spirituality. People can get the inspiration from personal religion belief. Grey claim “Inspiration means access to spirit. Spirit brings the vision to the artist via the imagination, the multidimensional media center of our minds.” Spirituality derived from inspiration and imagination. Creation is a form of conveying the spirituality.
I think creativity is an ability of creating something new and an ability to create something special. As I mention before, Creation is a form of conveying the spirituality. Creativity derives from personal inspiration. Creativity is very important to artist and artist gets the spirituality to create something. Every single person owns a different perspective and the different perspective is the most motivation for people’s creation. In Wikipedia, creativity means “a phenomenon whereby something new and valuable is created.” So, creativity is valuable thing for people.
The source of creativity usually comes from inspiration and imagination as I mention before. Creation is a form of conveying the spirituality. For example, the musicians get the spirituality from personal religious belief to write the Church songs. The painter gets the spirituality form their imagination and view when drawing a painting. There are a lot of way to get the spirituality of creativity, like personal hobby, education and other artist’s artwork. People who have an open mind is easier to have a good creativity.
The original blog post can be viewed here.
This is a really abstract thing for most people and also for these artists. We cannot create some new things that don’t exist before. All things that people or artists create are based on the old things or in other word the original of things. So the spirituality is the thing that with people when they were born. That can also influence people in many different kinds of ways. It can influence the artist the way that he or she thinks. So that could change the way that the artist draw pictures, they way they create and also the way that they act. Grey mentions that, “an artists finest works can symbolically unveil depth upon depth of meaning, like mirrors reflecting each other, deepening endlessly” (P. 75). So that is a good way that spirituality can do things on an artist.
For the spirituality and religion, these are the things that different from each other but they can be also influenced in positive way or negative way by each other. When you belong to a religion, some things that maybe you can or cannot to due to the rules so it may be limit people’s ideas that associate with it. The spirituality can give you the way that you think and act beyond the religion but still don’t break the rule that you limited by your religion. Grey claim in her article that “inspiration is the most mysterious step in the creative process. The artist is possessed by a creative force, overtaken by a vision and driven to create” (P. 81-81). So it provides you the most important thing for creating. Also religion is a very serious thing that people must respect it. Whatever it is your religion or not, you must respect it.
Future Goals
Future goal for the spirituality field, I think that I need to learn a lot of things about the spirituality either online or search some information from the library. Because I think that the spirituality can give me important and necessary things that I can use in my future live. It will also help me to have better understanding about what thing that can limit my creation and what can be useful for me to crate things or art. Finally I learnt a lot of thing through the spirituality about why people need it and why it is so important in people’ lives. People need it to create things that are useful for our society.
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