If an artist creates an artwork, is it ...

[anotherlife]

If an artist creates an artwork, is it his creation or is it God's creation?

 

[fncceo]

Is this artwork the result of the child's effort, or the parents.

 

[anotherlife]

Is this artwork the result of the child's effort, or the parents.

The parents did not create the child, or the child would not survive the parents. So the question remains, is this artwork a result of the child, or the result of God?

 

[emilynghiem]

If it's divinely inspired, such as the art of a 9 year old student I once tutored,
whose pen and ink/color renderings looked like a cross between Picasso and Matisse,
then it COULD be interpreted as a gift from God,
where God created both the artist and the image that would come through that person.

However, if it's such bad art, that neither God nor even Satan would claim it,
then it WOULD be blamed on the artist for making that mess!

(Likewise, if an artist's graffiti or tagging ends up on a wall or someone's
car as illegal vandalism, if the artist is underage, it likely ends up on the parents who are legally responsible.
I don't think you can blame God for that!)

 

[fncceo]

The parents did not create the child,

Do you not know where babies come from?

 

[emilynghiem]

The parents did not create the child,

Do you not know where babies come from?

Ha ha fncceo I think what
anotherlife means is just because the parents conceive and create
the physical pregnancy and child (as well as being legally responsible),
does not mean they create the
life and soul of the child and that person's will to live
that enters into that physical body and legal person.

The artwork is not the best analogy because the artwork is not a sentient being
or legal person.

(BTW anotherlife, here is a short story I published in a university journal,
where a mother does declare her son to be an art sculpture funded by grants.
http://www.houstonprogressive.org Enjoy!)

 

[jillian]

If an artist creates an artwork, is it his creation or is it God's creation?

seriously?

 

[fncceo]

If artwork is created in a forest and no one is around to see it ...

 

[deanrd]

So many good artists are gay.

Racist right wingers? Not so much.

Probably one of the reasons they are sooooo jealous.

 

[fncceo]

So many good artists are gay.

Racist right wingers? Not so much.

Probably one of the reasons they are sooooo jealous.

Jeesh, Pony. Get a new trick.

 

[Missourian]

The same as if an artificial intelligence created a work of art...who gets the credit...The AI, or it's creator?

The obvious answer is...both.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

I'm an artist.

I was given my ability to create art by God. I am simply His instrument just as the brush is my instrument. Who created that painting? The brush? Of course not.

 

[usmbguest5318]

If an artist creates an artwork, is it his creation or is it God's creation?

Theological determinists call it "God's creation." The rest of us, believing in free will, do not.

I suppose too that semantic quibblers, to advance absurd notions, may, even not truly being theological determinists, also at times call such a thing "God's creation." The thing with such individuals is that insofar as they are largely unprincipled, oppotunistic and capricious, there's no reliable way to predict what the hell they may or may not do and when.

 

[Natural Citizen]

If an artist creates an artwork, is it his creation or is it God's creation?

Creativity comes through you but not from you. Though it is with you it belongs not to you. That's someone elses thought on the matter which I'd read some place.

In other words, we merely transcribe what is. This, of course, requires humility.

I read another great quote as well with regard to the creative process some time ago. "a great artist is but a conduit for an expression that resonates with something that is greater than him or herself"

 

[fncceo]

Is the vision of G-d being channeled through the work of Robert Mapplethorpe?

 

[ScienceRocks]

The artist.

There's no fucking god

 

[Natural Citizen]

Is the vision of G-d being channeled through the work of Robert Mapplethorpe?

That minds me of another great quote.

“Reality, it seems, is multiple, and tightly coupled to perception.”

Which may be indicative of the secret to winning all philosophical battles on the Internet. It do take a village.

 

[Natural Citizen]

There's no fucking god

Yeah? Hm. How do ya know?

 

[SobieskiSavedEurope]

So many good artists are gay.

Racist right wingers? Not so much.

Probably one of the reasons they are sooooo jealous.

I'm a racist Fascist artist.

 

[playtime]

god's creation? or the artist's free will?