Creational Art

Art is one important aspect of the fact that mankind was made in God's image. It is an expression and evidence of the creative process that brought us into being, a manifestation of the Divine spark left over in everyone that enables an artist to manifest in his heart and hands the very power of creation; to bring into reality a thing of beauty from raw materials and inspiration alone. The evocative nature of art is just a continuation if this process, to ellicit from the universe a realization of the angst and desire that birthed the artistic experience, each time a reiteration and reincarnation of Genesis.

The field of Psychological Science illustrated this indefinable essence of the artistic creative process with an experiment. A group of participants, made up of traditional classical artists, craftsmen, and engineers, and people who just professed an ability to draw were asked to draw a portrait of a stranger. While these subjects drew these portraits, they were given CAT scans that mapped the areas of their brains that were experiencing the most electrical activity during this assignment. The results were examined and analyzed and the resulting CAT scan data separated the group of subjects into two distinct camps. As you would expect, the draftsmen, engineers, and amateur drawers processed most of the information they received and utilized through hand-eye coordination to render their portraits in the area of their brains called the visual cortex, an area at the back of the cerebral cortex that processes visual stimuli. These participants in the experiment were merely duplicating as accurately as possible what they saw, no more than a facsimile of what their eyes perceived.

The classical artists, on the other hand, were found to experience the most electrical activity and hence process the most information during this portrait creating activity, in the area of their brains called the Frontal Lobe. This area is generally believed to be the seat of human consciousness, where the thoughts occur, through various idea creating and analytical processes, responsible for every advancement in the field of human intellectual development strongly influenced by emotional content, the basis for inspiration. It has been theorized that what the artists are doing is bringing into existence through the creative endeavor their "idea" of the portrait, not a mere processing of visual information, but a utilization of a quality of consciousness expressed in symbolic forms that other people can recognize, interpret, and respond to, bringing forth into our physical reality a concrete representation of what it means to be human.

The artistic experience, perceiving the world in unique perspectives and recognizing its potential, through the creative process, appears each time, in every artist's own way, to be a repetition of the original act of creation, bringing forth from the humble earth truth and beauty. Though artists have often been under-appreciated in our greed-driven , Western culture, in this sense they are like priests, possessing an innate ability to perceive and conceive the divine and infinite, and to express and communicate these qualities in a tangible way to world-weary souls. J. Wallace