What is spiritual art?

So what is it? What defines spiritual art? Does it have to be religious subjects? Can it be abstract? Can a person with no spiritual intention create spiritual art? Is it the intention of the artist that makes it spiritual? Does it have to be beautiful? Is art that is beautiful necessarily spiritual? Is it only in the eye of the beholder? Can it be offensive and spiritual?

We have a small art gallery here in Taos, New Mexico that has been open for two years now and it is devoted to Sacred (spiritual) art and the answers to these questions have proven much more difficult than we ever imagined they might be. If you peruse the artist's statements of a good many artists you might conclude that a majority of the art being produced today is spiritual; maybe it is. Maybe it is like the supreme courts definition of pornography "I know it when I see it".

We have set ourselves the mission (I hate that word but for lack of a better one!) of turning viewers and or customers (sometimes we feel more like a museum than a store) minds to the only frontier left to explore on this earth and that is the journey inward into the Spirit. Defining and finding the art that does that is our conundrum.

Comments

[Susan Angeletti]

Hi Mike & Jodi & all!

It is sooo wonderful to hear from you both and to read about your gallery devoted to the continued pursuits of the heart and spirit art in your lives. I enjoy reading your blog and am thankful for it.I do like the sound of a "spiritual plumber". Digging deep is what it is all about right? :)

PS: To:R.Young, Hi, no mundane comments there made from you I would say, thankyou for sharing with us even if it was unintentional.

I am out here following my heart and spirit delving into my soul,gospel type blues singing and am feeling in my insides signs of light & encouragement, that I am on a spiritual journey here in my music and my life. I am starting to see and feel less seperation in all areas of my life, in the opening up of myself to giving and being in music, that makes me feel very alive and touches my heart.I feel less seperation these days in my interactions with family, friends and folks I run into each day I wake up.

much love to you all,wishing you Happy Holidays,
Susan Angeletti