Living Your Life as an Artist  / by Carole

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Unlocking Creativity: The Artist's Mind

LIVING YOUR LIFE AS AN ARTIST

Some people believe that many artists lead punishing lives. They need to invest their skills and planning. They also invest money, time, and principles to a great extent. Some even are not recognized or appreciated in the way that they expect. It is incredibly important that you understand that artists are talented than you ever imagine. They can easily transform their imagination into a real picture. They draw it as a painting or on the canvas. Their life can be hard, but only they know what to make out of it. They can understand our culture, our traditions, and our history more than we can. They are more like scientists. The only difference is that a scientist experiments with different theories and natural elements. Artists experiment with their thoughts, ideas, imagination, thinking, and colors. Lots and lots of colors. By using colors effectively, they can illustrate important life aspects. They also evoke sensations in our thoughts. 

The Creativity of an Artist

Artists push beyond the usual norms. They start to question their own assumptions that no one else has questioned. They question their own thoughts and ideas, and then generate creativity. They can easily blend a lot of colors to give shape to their creativity. An artist can look around and take inspiration from every object. They see inspiration in every surface, every scene, and every color. Even a situation that appears interesting can inspire them. Artists will never stop learning about art. They constantly think about blending creativity into their work. Art now encompasses many forms and types. This diversity can easily confuse an artist on how to approach so many different aspects. The artistic process works on the questions of art, culture, tradition and their own thought-processes. 

The World and its Problems

As we know, the world has many problems like scarcity, poverty, hunger, economic conditions and globalization. Many of these tough problems even question our thought of mind and culture. Many of us would ignore such problems and live our life, but an artist sees these problems differently. Though they can't do much to change it, they still like to give it a picture. They create something out of it so that people would at least see it. This encourages people to do something about it collectively. With the artist’s work, the general audience can question their own thoughts. They can think about how they are playing their part in the world. That is what an artist does; they invoke thought of reasoning in people. They introduce new knowledge to the cultural realm with their artworks. They provoke people to contemplate it. 

Making someone think about anything other than themselves is difficult. An artist achieves this with creativity. They also use a blend of different colors. We live in a time full of color, images, and pictures. There is language, videos, stories, and music. There is a diversification of cultures and traditions. An artist brings out the positivism of these elements. They make something meaningful out of them. The artist can then motivate a reason of thought about culture. They can inspire reflection on spiritual, political, emotional, or even economical aspects of our world.



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