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Colette’s Halloween Happenings: Art So Amazing…It’s Scary! (Part Two)

By Colette Baron-Reid [ 25 October 2009 | 446 views | 2 Comments ]

Halloween Happenings deviantART 1In , “Colette’s Halloween Happenings: Art So Amazing…It’s Scary! (Part One)“, I discussed The Quantum Theory as it relates to art and artist. I cited deviantART as the largest “laboratory” in existence for testing of this subject matter.

As stated in “Colette’s Halloween Happenings: Art So Amazing…It’s Scary! (Part One) “, deviantART did not start out as a mega-funded commercial site but, rather, as a passion project which grew organically. That fact seems to consternate some and deviantART has been dealt out some criticism by those who feel deviantART should be more far more choosey in the “level“ of artist and art they allow to post on the site.

In an interview from www.redefinemag.com Angelo Sotiro, co-founder and current CEO of deviantART, responded beautifully to that very query from the interviewer;

 Jeanette Liang of redefine asks, “DeviantArt allows anyone to post their artwork. Do you feel that takes away from the site’s level of professionalism“?

Angleo Sotiro; “Oh no, there is a little bit of artist in anybody, so we embrace the artist. The mentoring aspects are a very important part in that. The system is designed in such a way where everyone gets to go on the front page, and then we have filtering systems so the more people react to your artwork, the more that it filters up. So, if you want to come to see just the best stuff, you just browse top favorites. But there’s a community of people who just love to see the real raw reaction to the world every single day. That’s what DeviantArt is. There is one submission every 2 to 3 seconds. DeviantArt was alive and thriving during the September 11th attacks; you should see the reaction by the artistic community during those days. It’s a live vehicle for artists to explain the world around them every day of the year. And if you look at it in a different perspective, 13 million pieces of art in the past 5 years is an artistic documentation of a history of art online. That’s absolutely an incredible thing. It’s timely, and you can see it day by day. I don’t think anybody else can say that. Galleries are rarely time stamped. We are actually preserving history in a great way“.

Halloween Happenings deviantART 2So what is it about art that speaks to us?

Is the symbolic language inherent in visual art more powerful than the limitations of spoken or written language?

And, are there limitations in spoken or written language?

The answer, I think, lies, partially, in the Carl Jung quote I led with in Part One of this post;

“The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purposes through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is “man” in a higher sense – he is “collective man,” a vehicle and moulder of the unconscious psychic life of mankind.”                                  “Psychology and Literature“, 1930 -Carl Jung

Again, everything we see, think or feel is embedded in our soul, cells, DNA… perceptions permeate all.

In that process we are evolving in Planck time (the smallest measurement of time that has any meaning).

All pretty heady stuff…maybe…but the rest of the answer is actually quite simple.

In my book “Messages From Spirit”, chapter 16 outlines and defines The 27 Universal Unfoldments. These are the 27 archetypes and influences of the human experience that unfold from birth to death. The images are universal.

And, so, the Oracle message of  The Artist is the final portion of our answer;

 “Spirit is the true essence behind every moment of your experience; everything you accomplish is the result of co-creating with the Divine“.      Messages From Spirit   - Colette Baron-Reid (pg 215)

By definition, then, we are all Artists whose job…whose journey quest…is to recognize the creative God-force within and co-create as many written, oral and visual works of art as we can, both sophisticated and un with no creation being any more important or worthy than the next.

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  • QiaJenae Hamilton
    QiaJenae Hamilton said:

    deviantART just confirms what we know, but don’t hear much of in this worldly system of things, (except on CBR’s site, of course! LOL) which is that we are ALL in this TOGETHER, and we are ALL equal! We are all special and have something to share. Wooohooo! Embrace each other and start the day with a holler! “How will WE co-create with Spirit, today!” Yahoo!

    Thanks CBR!
    Q

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