By Cyn Rene’ Whitfield
There’s an unspoken art that drives us all. It is not in the clay we mold, or oils we mix, or chalk we dust to express ourselves. This art artists know is what drives inspiration and maintaining the integrity of the art. Some are more receptive to its gifts yet, others repel it with their very being. This inspiration is called the art of allowing.
Art is created by allowing a composition to be as it is and capturing its essence through representation. A photographer knows a candid shot is much more powerful than a staged one. Such as in life, if you allow others to live the life they choose you allow in more beauty and experiences than the ones you control. Allowing expands vision, choices and consequential experiences of those choices. Is posing a subject more ethical than a candid action shot?
Artists who invoke an emotion allow for interpretation. Modern Abstract Artists repel so much of the truth that it allows emotional responses to seek untapped places. In opera you needn’t understand the words to evoke the feeling of the message, yet the integrity of the intention is still present.
Vincent van Gogh and Edvard Much both were known to suffer from mental illness. Munch suffered from bi-polar disorder and van Gogh suffered from paranoia, epilepsy and absynth addiction. Yet, through the honesty of their work they were able to maintain integrity in their work. Why? Because, through their art, they provided an honest expression of allowing.
Sources: There’s an unspoken art that drives us all. It is not in the clay we mold, or oils we mix, or chalk we dust to express ourselves. This art artists know is what drives inspiration and maintaining the integrity of the art. Some are more receptive to its gifts yet, others repel it with their very being. This inspiration is called the art of allowing.
Art is created by allowing a composition to be as it is and capturing its essence through representation. A photographer knows a candid shot is much more powerful than a staged one. Such as in life, if you allow others to live the life they choose you allow in more beauty and experiences than the ones you control. Allowing expands vision, choices and consequential experiences of those choices. Is posing a subject more ethical than a candid action shot?
Artists who invoke an emotion allow for interpretation. Modern Abstract Artists repel so much of the truth that it allows emotional responses to seek untapped places. In opera you needn’t understand the words to evoke the feeling of the message, yet the integrity of the intention is still present.
Vincent van Gogh and Edvard Much both were known to suffer from mental illness. Munch suffered from bi-polar disorder and van Gogh suffered from paranoia, epilepsy and absynth addiction. Yet, through the honesty of their work they were able to maintain integrity in their work. Why? Because, through their art, they provided an honest expression of allowing.
Hillman, James (1999) The International Library of Psychology. Emotion: A Comprehensive Phenomenology of Theories and Their Meanings. Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, NY retrieved November 19, 2010 from http://books.google.com/books?id=C1ZgmmVIkPsC&pg=PA226&lpg=PA226&dq=artist+who+invoke+emotion&source=bl&ots=gldBBz3a56&sig=6UI3V9DF_6sinOLYZj14ijdRhCE&hl=en&ei=RAPnTNOZEcL7lwfQ9-D7Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CDMQ6AEwCA
