Frances to Armando... In the production of art, it would be my feeling that the somatic material act of making it likely motivates the cerebric mental act to adapt somewhat most of the time. In the sphere of say visual art, the graphic pictural act or the plastic sculptural act will stimulate the rational act of planning and predicting the work to alter or change the expectations of mind perhaps half the time, before the artist finally settles or completes or finishes the work. It is rare that the material graphic or plastic act will merely report on the mental or rational act somewhat precisely as designed in the mind. The artistic act in its stuff and form will have the power to feed back to the mind unexpected surprises that are pleasurable or joyful or admirable. In the consumption of art, any thinking or knowing or reasoning about it is another logical aspect of aesthetic art altogether. In any event, the work of art as found or made is objectively independent of the subjective mind, because it is the external work or object that is art or nice and not the internal sense of it.
Armando wrote... I, personally don't know "my" art, until it's created. Each one has some quality not found in others that pleases me. ...I don't know it's art until I create it. There is no joy in knowing the result before getting there. Personally, the joy is in the doing and perhaps getting there. Allan wrote... I fully agree, the joy is in some degree the discovery which is manifest in the end result that is always to degrees different from the starting intentions; I have the same sense and attitude to my photography, which is my attempt at producing art. But, do you not think that is different from saying or implying that knowing and making art are somehow in conflict, or mutually excluding?
