Creative Spirituality

In this weeks reading about Deeply Seeing, Grey addresses the necessities involved for creating accurate artwork.  Rather than just simply looking at someone or something, and artist must see to create.  The idea of including spirituality into artwork comes from this idea of deeply seeing.  Look past what is on the outside, material, and look into someone’s soul.  The author addresses Saint Bonavantures three eyes of knowing, “The eye of flesh sees the outer realm of material objects; the eye of reason sees symbolically…and the mystic eye of contemplation sees the luminous transcendental realms” (Grey, 73).  Spirituality comes from the later two of Bonaventures three eyes and includes the radiant beauty of the art object. The concept of including spirituality into artwork is brought out with creativity.  The author breaks down creativity into formulation, saturation and incubation, which is the process of finding, seeing and interpreting the subject. Following those are inspiration, translation and integration, which is the process of the artist creating his mental artwork and putting into action and showing it off to the world (Grey, 75). By actually being inspired, saturating, and integrating spirituality into the work rather than just looking and creating, the work becomes much more personalized.  The difference to me, after reading this article, between spirituality and religion is clear.  The article expresses spiritualty as someone’s inside beauty and nature versus what is seen on the outside.  It is the deeper meaning behind the first glance.  Religion is more the organized beliefs of some higher power.  I think religion is seen though examining someone’s spirituality; it is a part of the substance within a person.

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