“Inspiration and Creativity, two worlds into madness” P. Melitón (Salamanca Painter)

The truth is that you consult these two words and you stay a little perplexed; man, still  inspiration makes you think with those 4 meanings, but creativity only have two and so easy to understand! I wish it was so easy to explain, wasn´t it? I think not.

And if not, then someone try to explain it to my good friend Julia Cameron author of global bestseller “The Artist’s Way.” (Reading recommend). If creativity is simply the “power to create” and “capacity to create”, then how this great friend has been able to write a book of more than 300 pages concerning creativity and has sold millions of copies of her book? So, it doesn´t seems so easy.

Well, if you´re interested in these topics, please don´t fail to follow this simple and austere blog unfinished (for now) heh, heh
In the next post I´ll tell you a little more about me and how and why I started painting.
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See you tomorrow.

P. Melitón.
Painter.

Impossible Love

I hope you enjoy my work

“If I paint my dog exactly as it is, naturally I’ll have two dogs, but not a work of art” J. W. Goethe

How many arguments there are in these words of my good friend J. W. Goethe, what  would it be of art and artists if we painted all things as we see them? What would it be of the museums if this would happen?

Imagine “El Prado, Museum in Madrid” full of paintings of pets, near and distant relatives of the artists and the bedrooms of each one?

Oh, my God, holy creativity, wit and genius. Rather, it looks like a contest sponsored by Dog Chaw, Affinity or whatever brand of which we give to our great friends the pets (dog in my case); the best part is that we wouldn’t have to  rename the meeting, “The Meadow” is a good name for a place full of animals (whether bipedal or quadrupedal).

Heh heh heh … Well, enough of jokes and let’s continue.

Today we’ll make a little mention concerning Inspiration and Creativity. You may wonder why I have written in capital letters and bold; It´s very simple, they are two of the components of the essence of Art and Artist, and they deserve a little more highlight to other words in this context.

But let’s dig a little more in these two words that more than one of us goes mad over the years and centuries.

According to the SRAL (Spanish Royal Academy of Language) this is the meaning of:

– Inspiration.
(From lat. Inspiratio,-onis).

1. f. Action and effect of inspiring or inspired.

2. f. Illustration or supernatural movement that God communicates to the creature.

3. f. Effect of feeling the writer, speaker or artist’s unique and effective stimulus that makes him to produce as spontaneously and effortlessly.

4. f. Inspired thing.

– Creativity.

1. f. Power to create.

2. f. Ability to create

In a while, a little more.

P. Melitón