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Shallow and Deep Healing
Perhaps the theoretical element in 'art healing the heart' is that love heals, beauty invites love, and art creates or celebrates beauty. Shallow art merely draws attention to what people already know to be beautiful whereas deep art finds or creates beauty where it was not formerly perceived. Perhaps this also corresponds with different kinds of healing. What do you think?
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Permalink Reply by David Brazier on -
Thank you, Dawn. I'd like to push some of these ideas a bit further. If all one's paintings were just a pure white sheet, they might all be perfect, but they would not convey healing to all. In Buddhism, for instance, there are many jokes about the perfect scriptures having no words. However, a work of art also needs some dark pigment and life is full, not just empty. The darkness of the soul may also be a source of creativity and of its own particular kind of beauty, may it not? and is it not that very darkness that is, for many artists, the impetus to create? What do you (and any others who would like to join in) think?
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Permalink Reply by David Brazier on
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I think we are 'friends' on the other site, aren't we?
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