I am a Christian. I believe that God created
the heavens and earth... etc. I believe He created us to be like Him...
creative. However precious few of us have CREATED a planet or heavenly
bodies of any type. We can only copy what He has already created, add to
it, subtract from it maybe, but technically as Plato says, we don't really do
more that mimic what already exists. Oh yes, we try to be original by
using color and form in different ways, abstract, etc. We can add our unique
voice to the narrative but it isn’t really new. But all color and form
has already existed. We are simply reshaping it. It has all been
done before. And somehow, I find comfort in that. Because we can
still find a unique voice even creating a copy. Just my opinion.
Michelangelo was very focused on the creation of inspired
forms, creating the best through God’s
He felt that only a true artist listening to God’s voice, guiding form
and concept, will be able to make something of God, of Beauty, that is
successful. That seems very profound and
very realistic.
I must say that we
all bring our own Point of View to each piece. A group of friends and I
went out to the same lake location to paint. Several of us painted the
same spot, same medium, same time of day, but each painting turned out slightly
different. We can all look at the same thing and "see" it a
little differently, colored by past experience, emotional turmoil, and personal
mood, adding unique brush stokes that become fingerprints. I think that's
what makes art great. We are copying, in a sense, what already is, but
each one is unique. That is how the art experts tell a fake or forgery from
an original. And today we have DNA testing as well. Thomas Kincaid
put a drop of blood, varnished into the original, in the corner of each
painting so it could be authenticated as his unique work. If Van Gogh had
known about DNA, perhaps he would have done the same thing, and there wouldn't
be so many forgeries of his work floating around today.
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