After reading the course material of “Art as Spiritual Practice”, deeply seeing inspires artists to create art. Different seeing is bases on the different thinking in our spiritual and seeing leads to aesthetic decision. Meanwhile, the writer discovers the relationship between subjects and art which determined that the seeing inspired the art to reflect or create in subjects. There had a word said that “The artist’s three eyes of knowing are inspired by the radiant spiritual beauty of the subject, fascinated by the subject’s harmonic structure, and motivated to express the unique wholeness of the subject by drawing a bounding line around it” (P. 5). Furthermore, the inspiration is unique by each of artist. In the other hand, the reading also told about the meaning of success for artist. The important one is your art must fulfill your inspiration or require your desire. Then your friend’s good feedback is also means success for your art work. Thus, the reading focus on the unique inspiration brings the special see to create art, also people how to know or determined art.
I have interested in the words from reading which said 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. 13). How is amazing of the process of create art! I am no doubt that the inspiration gives powerful energy to artist. Meanwhile, the inspiration gives the special vision to artist. They will feel what normal people don’t know things. The requirements for how to get close of art also are abstract concepts. “Saint Thomas Aquinas, an Italian philosopher of the thirteenth century, declared that three things needed for beauty: integritas, consonantia, and claritas” (P. 3). The creation of art is meaningful for human being by inspiration. The consciousness has the different level, such as the aspect realize for each person is different. Anyway, the Authenticity-art is related on inspiration and they have more meaningful characters occurred in both normal people and artistic’s seeing.
Hi, I really like your response to the Grey’s article. I pay much attention on the three eyes theory that introduced how we think about when we look at an object. You also mentioned this theory, but I want to talk more about the third eye, as Grey explained, “the mystic eye of contemplation sees the luminous transcendental realm” (Grey, 73). You said the inspiration is unique by each of artist, and I agree with this argument and I also think the reason is those artists apply the mystic eye of contemplation so their inspiration could be drawn forth. In addition, you said friend’s good feedback is also means success for art work, but I think the friend’s feedback is just one aspect to judge the success of art work because the art work is created for the artist self not for others, even an artwork just be appreciated by artist self you also cannot say it is not a good artwork.