The Evolutionary Path Of An Artist’s Soul
Get involved in the very substance of your creation as a sign of a fierce struggle to assert those values of existence that turn you into a sensational talent.
The man who leaves the blacksmith’s trade in order to get into the guild of talented artists, working with the brush, is the restricted version of an astral treatise called “meeting with destiny”.
I believe that this is the essence of the life of the one who had a longer dialogue with the universe, even before he became the shine of a star. Perhaps, however, this is also the message of the book “The Book of Painters” by Mander, from which I printed this short fragment:
Quinten Matsijs, painter from Antwerp, says:
"A poor one-eyed blacksmith I had been before,
And my lovely courted a painter, with much zeal;
The girl then told me, in a few words not more,
The noise of steel and iron she’s not happy to hear,
That she prefers the game of the silent quill,
My love giveth me wings for art, for painting,
Proof is the small, rugged anvil,
Which I placed upon my paintings, along my marking.
As Cypris had received his armor glowing,
From Mulciber, for her son, in gift,
Poet, make yourself a painter from a blacksmith.”
Have you learned to consider a creation that does not cease to renew its perspective of development through the composition of an ordinary image in time to look at what exists beyond it?
This explanation of Quinten’s art, or the moment of the passing of an ordinary worker to the exercise of a distinguished profession, by the fact that it is worthy of a man to rise above his condition, makes art exert a beneficial influence on the importance the artist’s devotion must have to that reminder of his beginnings. Supported by the memory of his past, so well reflected in the substance of his creation, the artist must rise above the social conventions of the century in which he lives, above his humble condition, to win the devotion of an art dedicated to human dignity under all its facets.
A man devoted first and foremost to art, in the same mind, enhances me by the possibility of his passing from one environment to another, or from one status to another, finds his inspiration piece not in his profession, but in the heart of his art, which is nothing more than a strong desire to discover the importance of aesthetics in the beauty of another person, spiritually identical to him.
You may be wondering, where does this idyll full of candor and beauty begin to evolve slowly, in proportion to its adaptation to a new world that opens its doors to art?
It starts from his inclination towards art and his aesthetic sense, basically, starting from an analysis of how he relates to the beauty of the being to whom he can entrust the mysteries of his soul, for preservation. Thus, the artist’s talent is not just justified in the power to overcome his humble condition, because many have experienced the same kind of situation and have failed to change, but in the strong desire to please the heart that radiates beauty.
Leadership, from the perspective of the human being from one condition to another, is the example of a life freed from the pain of her past, insofar as life acquires the meaning of a creation that never ceases to amaze.
In this regard, let’s not forget what Adriana Ivonne Marinescu said: “The image of a creation takes the form of the leader, the nation, the unity and the ideal order, usually put under the protection of Providence.”
The Evolutionary Path Of An Artist’s Soul opens in front of the man who knows how to turn his condition into a launching ramp to the peaks of art, to the fusion of aesthetics and values, through the prism of the price needed to be paid: abandoning old beliefs, old activities, old customs, towards a great ideal.
The ideal of identifying with the ideal profile of another person who can complement your personality.
