my Art Appreciation for Humanities Majors Class paper (our task was to pick one, not both, which of experience or imagination produces art)
We all think that we are actually experiencing things in our life but really we all are just imagining that we are experiencing it. Art is then a product of our imagination, not our experience, because our experience is not really experience, we just imagine that we experience it.
How does one distinguish that we are actually experiencing it and if we are only imagining it. What if we are imagining things so good that it seems that we are actually experiencing it? That kind of imagination is what really produces art from us because it is so strong that it inspires us to make a piece of art, and so strong that we actually think we experience an imagined experience. Sure there may be basis for our experience, but we are also imagining these bases of our experiences, that’s how strong it is that we are inspired to do art with it.
Imagining it need not be unreal or separate from reality, it only needs to be perceived by us. Let’s say that we are given basic sensory stimulation of light, sound and touch. These stimulation at the very basic level are really just light, sound and touch and because of our imagination, we translate these stimulation into something we call “experience” where we get our inspiration to do art. And we say that we experience imagining where really we are imagining our experiences.
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