19 Facts About Artistic inspiration

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In Christianity, Artistic inspiration is a gift of the Holy Spirit.

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Psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung's theory of Artistic inspiration suggests that an artist is one who was attuned to racial memory, which encoded the archetypes of the human mind.

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In modern psychology Artistic inspiration is not frequently studied, but it is generally seen as an entirely internal process.

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In Greek thought, Artistic inspiration meant that the poet or artist would go into ecstasy or furor poeticus, the divine frenzy or poetic madness.

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However, Artistic inspiration is a matter of revelation for the prophets, and the two concepts are intermixed to some degree.

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Revelation is a conscious process, where the writer or painter is aware and interactive with the vision, while Artistic inspiration is involuntary and received without any complete understanding.

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In Christianity, Artistic inspiration is a gift of the Holy Spirit.

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Artistic inspiration then composed "Cædmon's Hymn", and from then on was a great poet.

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Therefore, Artistic inspiration was a somewhat random but wholly natural association of ideas and sudden unison of thought.

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Artistic inspiration said that genius is "the god within" the poet who provides the inspiration.

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Romantic writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Percy Bysshe Shelley saw Artistic inspiration in terms similar to the Greeks: it was a matter of madness and irrationality.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's accounts of Artistic inspiration were the most dramatic, and his The Eolian Harp was only the best of the many poems Romantics would write comparing poetry to a passive reception and natural channelling of the divine winds.

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The artist's Artistic inspiration came out of unresolved psychological conflict or childhood trauma.

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Carl Gustav Jung's theory of Artistic inspiration reiterated the other side of the Romantic notion of Artistic inspiration indirectly by suggesting that an artist is one who was attuned to something impersonal, something outside of the individual experience: racial memory, or a 'Psychopoetry' experience.

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Materialist theories of Artistic inspiration again diverge between purely internal and purely external sources.

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However, in each of these cases, Artistic inspiration comes from the artist being particularly attuned to receive the signals from an external crisis.

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In modern psychology, Artistic inspiration is not frequently studied, but it is generally seen as an entirely internal process.

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An example of a modern study on Artistic inspiration is one that was conducted by Takeshi Okada and Kentaro Ishibashi, published in 2016 in the multidisciplinary journal, Cognitive Science.

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The results of the first and second experiment revealed that copying artwork enabled the students to produce creative drawings that were qualitatively different, but only when the example—the Artistic inspiration—featured a style that was unfamiliar to the students.

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