Unit 7 – Creative Spirituality Response

1.  As far as I am concerned, spirituality is the resource of art. Only when an artist has spirituality, can he create a piece of art touches the deepest part of people’s mind. Even though inspiration is import in the process of creating art as well, comparing to spirituality, inspiration is like spark. Inspiration can help people create a piece of art by accident. Normal people can have the inspiration to create a piece of art but only artists have the spirituality to create art. Besides talent, spirituality includes rich knowledge, experience and so on. Therefore, I think spirituality is the basement of artists but spirituality needs much time and energy to prepare. Only when the artists have rich knowledge and experience, can artists create art.

2. As spirituality has close relation with knowledge and experience, I believe spirituality will be different in different religion. Let’s take painting as example. Since long time ago, the western countries have different painting style from the western countries. The European paint oil painting while the Chinese enjoy wash painting. The European like painting people and objects, while Chinese like painting mountains-and-waters painting. We can conclude that spirituality differ from religion and people in different places tens to create different genres of art.

3. I refer creativity to people’s ability to create something new. Not only artists but also inventors need to take advantage of their creativity to create art. Only when they have creativity can they create art. But there are many factors which can influence the inventors and artists’ creativity such as education, daily life, experience and so on. The environment of the artists and inventors can also affect their creativity. Artists and inventors tend to create something which is closely related to their daily experience and the environment around them.

4. As artists tend to create something closely related to their daily life, artists tend to use their daily experience and the things which have touched them as the source of their creativity. For example, the western artists tend to paint the object which apparent to them every day such as egg, woman, fruits and so on. Just like the inventors tend to create some inventions which should be used in their daily life like washing machine and dish-washing machine, artists have the tendency to create something close to their daily life. Artists also create something abstract, but I think the source of it is still their daily experience.

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