Art & Artists. A Philosophical approach.

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Trying to define what art is is a difficult enough task being in itself such a mysterious and subjective experience that we may summarize it with a quote from the Kena Upanishad:

What in lightning dazzles, makes one close his eyes and exclaim "Ah!"

We do not know the cause of this exclamation, however, but we can make a little logical effort to understand who packs and hurls these lightning bolts of amazement

Who or what is an artist? What is his or her task?

If we want to continue to use Indian culture as the spark to ignite this discourse, we can say that a potential artist is any person who feels the need to convey feelings through artistic expressions because he or she is struck by the burning arrows imbued with desire and lack of the god Kama.

Kama is "the one who inflames" , "the one who makes one burn in desire," a kind of our Cupid but is also the deity associated with lack.

How can desire and lack, such opposing expressions, be part of the same essence?

Do they perhaps have something to do with art and the artist?

Definitely yes.

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