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
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How do I define “spirituality”?
For me, the spirituality is a symbol of our soul. It is necessary for human being and occurred in immaterial world but connect material universe with awareness or feeling. Because of spirituality, whole world for people become bigger than we looked. Especially the artist, they have various imaginations in spirituality. Thus, they own a bigger individual world than normal people. However, everyone person should be own spirituality. People become happy or angry for the emotion change. The emotion, feeling or thinking are one of parts of spirituality.
Does spirituality differ from religion?
They are different. For religion, it is one of characters of spirituality instead of whole. The religion can express what your spirituality is. But the religion is not the natural part in people’s life. People can use the talent of spirituality to choose what your religion or belief is when grows up. But the spirituality is must be occurred in your body when your born in. Even if some people thinking of the religion is the spirituality because the religion becomes their purpose for life and same as the function spirituality given. Religion is not useful for everyone but spirituality does.
How do you define “creativity”?
Creativity means create some new, fresh things in normal life. It is the bridge to connect your spirituality and the reality world. It seems as your spirituality world inspired body to create more beauty or special things in reality world. Creativity becomes important way for people to take actions to represent the spirituality universe. If you have an idea in your brain, the creativity helps you to shows what you wanted. Because of this kind of ability, the relationship between spirituality world and material universe get closed. People own the talent of creativity to increase interesting things in life. Thus, creativity helps people shows how they are thinking and change the world becomes interesting for human being.
What is the source of creativity?
As same as I defined of “creativity”, the main source of creativity come from spirituality in the macroscopic view. The thinking from spirituality is inspired people or artist to create something in life. Moreover, each of people can connect their individual spirituality to achieve some creations together. Thus, what of people’s thinking in spirituality is original reason why creativity in people’s life. In the other hand, the source also comes from experience, environment or anything which related in reality life. The fresh or new things would be created by compared with old things. Thus, creativity base on many factors in life by the microcosmic view. Anyway, the source of creativity is complex and related in both spirituality and objectives.
Reflection
In above assignment, I defined that what are creativity and spirituality and what is difference between spirituality and religion. I believe the spirituality is a symbol of our soul and it makes the world bigger than what we can see. The creativity is one of important ability for people to represent spirituality universe. Creativity is original ability for people or artist to develop art, even world until now. Meanwhile, religion also is a form to show what the people spirituality is. It is one of benefit but religion shows strong power of people. Thus, in my opinion, they are difference and the spirituality is basic thing to support religion and creativity to develop.
Furthermore, spirituality is the magic. I can’t imagine the effects on person by spirituality. But I believe that the spirituality is power for artist to create. As course material of “Art as Spiritual Practice”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). The relation about art is hard to say. Such as life value, process of creating, the benefit of religion. The power from them is invisible but strong enough. But because of they can’t instead of anything, the meaning from them is universe.
In the Future, after research of spirituality, I believe the spirituality is essential factor for person and art. The inner soul is universe because of spirituality and it brings all kinds of ability for people such as imagination, creativity, vision and religion. Even if the factor of art is complex, it is important for people to follow the self-feeling and find what art is.
