Art and Psychology
I will agree with psycho-analytic psychologies and their proposals that the visual image, when created by a person, can arguably be regarded as s psycho-visual phenomena of the artist who had created the image. The image is a data-set of sorts, of the artist’s psychic corpus (Emotivity, intelligence, awareness, etc.) This is a notion that supports Freidrich Nietzsche’s text, “The Borth of Tragedy” and his argument that the grounds of the particular appearance of a work of art is foundationally rooted in the current state-of-affairs of a culture. The state of culture is reflected in the body of art created by its people. I argue that this phenomenon applies to the individual artist, in that, the art piece is a reflection of the individual’s psychic current psychological state-of-affairs, just as an art piece reflects the psychological state-of-affairs of an entire culture.