The Artistic creation - Essay

                                                            The Artistic Creation

 In the Bible, It is written « God created the man to his image, He created him to the image of God, He created the man and the woman » Genesis, Ch 1. In general, the creation has a original relationship with a religious  topic. Over many decades, the utilization of this word was directly connected to God, to symbolize the process which allows Him to give an existence to the humanity and to all things on this planet. Already during the Antiquity, Greeks gave a special attention to the « fureur divine », « divine fury », which seems possesed by the poet when i was creating. During the  XVI° s, a religious worth was attributed to the artist. The beauty of his art pieces revealed something superhuman, a power given by God. It’s difficult to explain precisely what his artistic creativity was trying to explain the mystery of create a piece of art.

First, « giving birth to »/ creating  an art piece is like giving birth to a child. After,you have to educate this child to see him blooming. In the same way, a piece of art created by an artist is « a world » with its own autonomy, and its inside order. In 1846, Balzac wrote , in Cousine Bette : « les grands hommes appartiennent à leurs œuvres »/ « important men belong to their art pieces ». They take part of the worl they create throught a painting, for example. A painting is, as Giotto said, « a window opened on the world ». In this contemporary era, a painting can be symbolized as a window opened on one of the dimensions of the inside world. The creator is anyone who can accept his part of passivity in front of the creative impulse from the essence, and who gives the room, the time and the opportunity  to create the art piece inside himself, first. It is the manifestation (demonstration) of the man’s possession by a force which comes from inside himself, and by himself. Like a pregnant woman who does not know (without technology) what the face of her baby is, the creator des not know either. The future mother will know the physical aspect of her progeny, only when he is born. By the way, an artist knows what he is going to do, what he wants to do, only when he has done his piece.

Secondly, the feeling of the beauty and the ugliness are essantial parts which precede the artistic activity. For example, humanity has been sensitive to the beauty of a flower, of a sunset, a sunrise, before nice paintings or beautiful sculpture existed. Of course,  everyone has a sensitive part inside himself which can react in front of an ugly or a beautiful element. However, there exists two different kinds of beauty, a « natural » one, and an  « artistic » one. They are  independant. The natural beauty is the result of the perfect adaptation of its form to its functions. Kant said «  l’art n’est pas la représentation d’une belle chose mais la belle représentation d’une chose »/ « art is not the representation of a beautiful thing, but the beautiful representation of something ». The real artistic person has the power to create something beautiful by inspiring himself from a common, unremarkable thing. He has the capacity to show the essence, this same essence, everybody has inside himself. We come from the same  originel source and when an artistic person reveals this part in his art work, through the artistic creation, the artistic beauty can be born. Of course, every artists has been inspired by the nature as  the painters of the Renaissance who were more interested about the representation of the nature. Nonetheless, only a little part has really created a masterpiece that everyone can appreciate positively. For example, the « Capela Sixteen » in Rome, of Michel-Angelo, causes everybody a non-understod feeling of greatness. 

The artistic creation is the wedding of the source with the creator, the artist, and the result is an art piece, which draws another world, as child who is born. The constant work is the law of the art like the law of life. As a child  to his parents, he brings the passivity or the activity in front of his actions, sometimes, sadness, nonetheless, most of the time, he brings love, joy and happiness.