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"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands", this was said by one of the greatest artists of all time, Michelangelo. Now what did he mean by this? We are all acquainted with the image of a painter at his easel, brush in hand in front of a canvas. But how do artists get the idea in the first place? And then how do artists move from the images in their mind to the object which exists in time and space?

"A man paints with his brains and not with his hands", this was said by one of the greatest artists of all time, Michelangelo. Now what did he mean by this? We are all acquainted with the image of a painter at his easel, brush in hand in front of a canvas. But how do artists get the idea in the first place? And then how do artists move from the images in their mind to the object which exists in time and space?
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What's the creative process? This is a question which has provoked much research and debate, going all the way back to the Greeks. Plato and Aristotle wrote about Forms. Did you know the word 'information'' is derived from their philosophies? It literally means taking the form of something into the mind and letting that form shape the mind.

What's the creative process? This is a question which has provoked much research and debate, going all the way back to the Greeks. Plato and Aristotle wrote about Forms. Did you know the word 'information' is derived from their philosophies? It literally means taking the form of something into the mind and letting that form shape the mind.
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So, lately, I've been wondering, have I been spending too much time, painting with my hands and not my brains? And so I turned to Carl Jung to help me understand the cycle of the creative process. Carl Jung, born in 1875,, was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of Analytical Psychology. He believed that the mysteries of the human psyche could be unlocked through exploring the world of dreams, art, mythology, religion and philosophy. In what Jung called the 'Collective Unconscious', he believed we all store primordial images or archetypes.

So, lately, I've been wondering, have I been spending too much time, painting with my hands and not my brains? And so I turned to Carl Jung to help me understand the cycle of the creative process. Carl Jung, born in 1875, was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of Analytical Psychology. He believed that the mysteries of the human psyche could be unlocked through exploring the world of dreams, art, mythology, religion and philosophy. In what Jung called the 'Collective Unconscious', he believed we all store primordial images or archetypes.
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Now, mankind is unaware of the collective unconscious, but what the artist does is to draw archetypal images from the unconscious and shape them into works of art. It strikes me that Jung was saying something very similar to what Plato and Aristotle had been saying over two thousand years ago: Forms or Images shape how Mankind experiences the World. Each of these thinkers sought to analyze the artist and his art, from the creative process which begins in the artist's mind to the finished product. "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free". You've just gotta love Michelangelo.

Now, mankind is unaware of the collective unconscious, but what the artist does is to draw archetypal images from the unconscious and shape them into works of art. It strikes me that Jung was saying something very similar to what Plato and Aristotle had been saying over two thousand years ago: Forms or Images shape how Mankind experiences the World. Each of these thinkers sought to analyze the artist and his art, from the creative process which begins in the artist's mind to the finished product. "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free". You've just gotta love Michelangelo.