A work of 'Art' is a creation. After many years, I finally came to understand that I am most happy when I am creating. The chorus in Verdi’s Aida sings an invocation to the great god, Ftah. “You, who from nothing created the universe....” How is something created from nothing? By use of the imagination. We have an image in our mind and we create it as art. And by creating a tangible product that starts with a thought, we are assuming, on a small scale, the role of God. Perhaps the anxiety of being powerless over life and death is relieved a bit when we, like god, create.
A work of 'Art' is a creation.
After many years, I finally came to understand that I am most happy when I am creating.
The chorus in Verdi’s Aida sings an invocation to the great god, Ftah.
“You, who from nothing created the universe....”
How is something created from nothing? By use of the imagination.
We have an image in our mind and we create it as art.
And by creating a tangible product that starts with a thought, we are assuming, on a small scale, the role of God.
Perhaps the anxiety of being powerless over life and death is relieved a bit when we, like god, create.
what about narcissism and art?
Of course Plato was an artist!!