Where 'Art for Art's Sake' Went Wrong
Dante Alighieri, one of the greatest literary icons of the Western world, said in his Inferno , that Art imitates Nature (Creation), and thus, it is God’s own grandchild. The beauty of this sentiment has been felt repeatedly throughout history, whose great artists have often invoked divine muses before giving shape to their works. Indeed, there is something god-like about creativity itself, which may as well be the spark of divinity within man, who is made in God’s image. The creative man strives to emulate the Great Creator of the world himself, and very often the works of art first enter the artist’s imagination in the form of dream and revelation. Furthermore, the works of great artists are even said to inspire the creativity of budding artists who witness them, in that a kind of invisible thread seemingly connects the creative aspect of man across the macrocosm, which when tugged at one end would send reverberations pulsing across the whole mesh, that we would feel...