Artistic Mind

What do the following artists have in common: Caravaggio, Michelangelo, Poussin, Raphael, Rembrandt, Renoir, Rubens, Titian, Velazquez, Vermeer, Bernini, Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Dvorak, Handel, Mozart, Rossini, Schubert, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Vivaldi, Ibsen, Shakespeare, Sophocles, Williams, Dostoyevsky, Dumas, Hemingway, Lewis, Tolstoy, Coleridge, Dickinson, Frost and Yeats?

 

The greatness of these painters, sculptors, musicians, playwrights, novelists and poets cannot be matched or surpassed today. The era of the great artist is over. It came to an end a century ago. This article reveals why the era of the great artist is over, what happened and the remedy to ensure the rise of great artists in the future.

 

The Psychological Role of Art

For tens of thousands of years art has been a unique form of expression and communication among people. Art was intermixed with the development of written language during the early days writing. Art also enabled man to express himself in a way that is not available through the spoken or written word.

 What is the psychological role that art plays in human life? Why do people search the world for art and pay upwards of one million dollars for a single work of art? The answer is that art provides pleasure and inspiration to its beholder.

 People attend a concert, view a play, observe a sculpture or read a novel with the implicit goal of experiencing a sense of pleasure or even awe. In this sense, art can be said to satisfy the soul the way a delicious meal satisfies the stomach or the way a massage satisfies muscles. People from all over the world in all different cultures produce and observe art in its various forms for the delight, inspiration and pleasure it provides.

“Imagination i…

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”

― Albert Einstein

Imagination, also called the faculty of imagining, is the ability to form new images and sensations that are not perceived through sight, hearing, or other senses. Imagination helps make knowledge applicable in solving problems and is fundamental to integrating experience and the learning process^.A basic training for imagination is listening to storytelling  in which the exactness of the chosen words is the fundamental factor to “evoke worlds”. It is a whole cycle of image formation or any sensation which may be described as “hidden” as it takes place without anyone else’s knowledge. A person may imagine according to his mood, it may be good or bad depending on the situation. Some people imagine in a state of tension or gloominess in order to calm themselves. It is accepted as the innate ability and process of inventing partial or complete personal realms within the mind from elements derived from sense perceptions of the shared world.The term is technically used in psychology for the process of reviving in the mind, percepts of objects formerly given in sense perception. Since this use of the term conflicts with that of ordinary language, some psychologists have preferred to describe this process as “imaging” or “imagery” or to speak of it as “reproductive” as opposed to “productive” or “constructive” imagination. Imagined images are seen with the “mind’s eye“.