Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art

 

Welcome to another Mindful Monday!

It's amazing what you can get done in the middle of nowhere. Bright and early, creativity is working. Today is about aesthetics and the philosophy of art.

There is a philosophy to art. Most people don't see this. Yes, there is a business to art. A lot of people think it's all about the money. But we make things because we want to make things. You need to have the attitude that if you make money with your art, great, but if not, you don't.

A lot of stoicism goes into making art. As an artist, if you're a true artist, you don't care about the money. It's enough to make art to help change the world. People may look at your art or they may not. It's up to them. All you can do is create it. Yes, you can work on the business of letting people know about it, but you can't control if they look at it or not. It's important to have that attitude and mentality.

Aesthetics is defined as the philosophy of art. If you research aesthetics, it deals a lot with beauty, and what is considered beautiful in art. Art is subjective. What is beautiful to one person is not to another. It may be offensive to the other person. You need to be aware of that. Be aware as an artist you can't please everyone. Opinions are like assholes. Everyone's got one.

You must be aware that aesthetics deals with appreciation of things. What is pleasing? What is pretty? What is artistic? What is artistic may not be pretty. There's different ways to look at things.

Question everything. Be fearless. That is a true artist.

Creativity

 

What is creativity?

That's a loaded question. Google defines creativity as 'the use of imagination or original ideas'. If you google the word 'creativity', there's a world of information out there. I love creativity. We're surrounded by it here at the Red Block.

With all of these creative projects to get done, it's hard to get things done. We've been working on things for the last couple of weeks, and for example, this morning there were emails that haven't been responded to for over a week. It's just hard to get things done. But when you're able to focus on 1 thing, it gets done. It's just crazy how that is. But sometimes, you just have to get one thing done at a time.

There's so much to do, though:

This daily routine out here: working on the senior citizen theatre project, reading a chapter from a book each weekday, creative projects Monday-Friday, 2 writing projects each week, and much, much more. This is just an example of the insanity with creativity going on out here. You don't need to be around others to get things done. Sometimes, it helps being in the middle of nowhere. 

It's a wonderful life of creativity going on here right now; but hard to get things done.

Just to let you know, when googling the word 'creativity', this is something that is done a lot. Just googling words helps the imagination. It triggers other things. This is done frequently with words and terms. I love research. This was taught in graduate school, and hasn't left. It's a lifestyle now, just like veganism. As the Founder, my brain is always working. That's the creative artist in me. Most people aren't like that.

But that's just how I roll.

Creativity rocks. Simple as that.