What is the complete love of Art!

Love has been an internationally recognized and revered subject since the beginning of time. It has been expressed through countless mediums over an equally countless number of decades.

Love falls into many different types of categories: the love of GOD, the love for your children, the love of parents, family, friends, or the love of nature. The list can go on and on. But what is the "Complete love of art" we speak of and where dose it start?

Motives and reasons are behind the feeling of love for art which determine its trueness and guarantee its longevity. Can a true artist keeps his/her career, as an artist, if he/she merely, paints for self satisfaction, fame, recognition or for stress relief? Rather, the love of art is an expression of the deep appreciation for the marvelous and unexplainable nature surrounding us?

Only by being truly fascinated by the creation and its loving beauty, can a true artist emerges as a part of it. The longevity of the complete love and of a successful relationship acquires two fundamental strings: 1- lasting availability of an object/Superior nature and 2-A committed Artist/person to respond responsibly?

I believe that the perfect love, in a physical sense, is born at the moment of experiencing spiritual attraction, mental attraction, emotional attraction, and lastly, but not always completely necessary, a physical attraction, which is a bonus. The first three elements are all what a true artist acquires to complete the perfect love of art, the attractions between the artist and the beauty of our inspiring surroundings.

A 95 year old Artist who describes herself as having a full and satisfactory life that gave her almost all of what she had hoped for said. "Only, if I had a husband and children, would my life have been a perfect life for me! Who knows if I could have been able to continue up to age 95, my career, as an artist, that brought me so close to nature and to GOD!"

What would make an artist love art so much! It has been interesting for me to read about the prefrontal lobe cortex in the brain that is mostly involved with elaborating thoughts, intelligence, motivation, creativity, philosophy, reasoning, communications skills, sense of morality, concern for others and personality. Artists have a large and flexible prefrontal lobe cortex which contributes to higher mental functions. Also, behind the prefrontal lobe cortex is a strip stretching across the head - the motor cortex which contains billions of neurons that connect with our muscles. Grouping of nucleic acid and protein molecules in these areas contributes to the love of art. As professor Michael Leyton pointed out: "Art is perhaps the most inexplicable phenomenon of the human species. Enjoying art and beauty is what makes us feel. "

Mona Youssef - Realist fine artist

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