by Gary C. Gibson

Created on: November 29, 2009

Art has many forms of expression, and of course not all art is deliberately an object of leisure. The art of walking with a backstaff to regard the declination of the sun above the horizon at a given time of year may have approached spiritual dimensions as an intrepid soul squinted eyes considering the golden beauty over the ocean sending its majestic evening rays toward the deepening dark heaven. One voyageur more would have considered the timeless brilliance of God's creation and felt that his spirit might travel through time beyond his own physical limitations as well.

Modern art may occasionally contrive non-structured criteria for expression paradoxically as art initially was not structured as a recreational activity. In the beginning was the word. Form followed function and creative contextual competence. Representation of experienced objects and important ideas was perhaps initially nominal and only over a substantial amount of time did art evolve away from what realistic imaging it could portray, or at least was functions of objects an artist might conjecture and move into other forms of metaphysical constructions. Artisans were trained workers in many fields that occasionally drifted over into purely decorative ventures.

We know that poets such as Sappho wrote plainly about everyday life such as it was in the 7th century b.c. We know that wandering Middle Eastern poets were affiliated with tribes and played the role of historical, mythical bard for milllenia. Yes the cave paintings of Lascaux existed as do rock paintings of South Africa or Namibia, but the paintings tended to be realistic so far as technique permitted, and human belief inn the functions of all things reasonable posited that a spirit lay within everything causing it to move.

Individual spiritual expression may be made through artistic means in the modern world, and philosophers such as G.W.F. Hegel writing books such as 'Realms of Absolute Spirit' certainly inspire us to admire their art. Kind David and Solomon expressed their ideas and relationship with God through art not uncommonly. Renaissance painters portrayed religious historical scenes, yet was that for pay as artisans or solely or even primarily because of spiritual devotion?

In Dante Alighieri's Trilogy we see literature as great art with a spiritual message; the list is quite endless from Milton to 'A Place for Faith' (modern poetry). we may thank the spirit that motivated individuals and groups to produce such spiritually lifting works of art.

Structure within and without that may be perceived or comprehended by an artist can also be represented in more lasting forms in harmony with the capacity of the artist to construct models of the ideas, or perhaps images of the things for-themselves. Plainly the advance of knowledge may be compared to, or considered to be an aspect of the advance of skill and production as art. Spiritual knowledge is a part of that realm of human understanding, it is also a creative interpreter of the metaphysical advance of borders into the unknown. Human beings often consider the Spirit to be the foremost dweller of the unknown.

Indefinable criteria for existence have accompanied mankind throughout his advance through history. As any other might be out of contact with others yet exist, so people have regarded the transcending spiritual potential of the Author of being. Creativity is a function of comprehension and reception of knowledge. Art exists in engineering as well as for itself. Art exists in poetry and in logical. Scientists remark about the beauty of a theory as one of the ways that verification seems to actualize for its correspondence between theory and explanation of facts.

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