It is true that art is spiritual; it is also
true that art is ever present with us. In the words of the late sculptor and
art educator, Mr. Sam Majemite: “Look at the whole man-made world, all you see
is art.” There cannot be a better truth. In all my years as a practising artist
and art writer, I have come to a better understanding of the intrinsic values of
(fine) art simply by noticing people’s perception of the world around them. Art
embodies all works having to do with human creativity – works wrought by human
hands; fine art deals with fineness, and even finesse as a concept; it is about
any work requiring specialised skills. But art transcends the physical essence;
art is – romancing with the muse.
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| Leonardo da Vinci |
It was the Renaissance man – Leonardo da
Vinci who rightly stated that “The eye is the window of the soul”; such amazing
thought. It summarises all that art and the artist is about. At this point you
would wonder if art is not a branch of philosophy; well, I think it is. Drawing
inference from the power of conjecture, and how different people tend to
observe differently, seeing and looking become two markedly divergent concepts.
