Is Art more mental, physical, emotional?

United States
April 27, 2007 5:52pm CST
Well, the answer is in the question I guess. I just find that after I know what I am drawing, I like to free up my mind and emotions from the physical 'mechanics' of making a drawing and focus them on the impression I want to get across. This makes for a very impactful piece of art as opposed to an exersize in memory or mastery. What do you guys think? Is art more mental, physical, or emotional?
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simbrialuis
@simbrialuis (387)
• Philippines
20 Jun 07
Art is a combination of the choices you had given us. It took knowledge, to know what materials to be used, and where to work, when to work, concepualization, to work the ART out. Planning and analysis is a mental thing. It took emotion, to have the passion of doing what has been planned and analyzed. It took your physical strength to materialized everything. It is your physical body that would "materialized" what has been "conceptualized" which is driven by "passion". That is the very reason why, ART is considered to be morale enhancing, spirit uplifting, kind of stuff.
hcromer
@hcromer (2710)
• United States
2 May 07
For me art is more emotional. I do artistic things because it helps me to relax and makes me more calm. I usually don't beat myself up too much to make it look right, it's more just the action and the release for me.
aglocoincome
@aglocoincome (174)
• Czech Republic
28 Apr 07
Of course. The art is emotional, can be lucky, expresive... I am artist too. You can see on my builds and tell me after, if it is emotional, or not: http://www.shareapic.net/content.php?id=1535351&owner=aglocoincome