How does art happen

How does art happen?
This is an interesting question as there are so many different genres of art and each has so many different sub categories within in them. If we look at painting we see all the different paints that can be used, oil paint, water based paint, spray paint and then there are even more surfaces that can be used to paint on.

Art can happen in anyway but I think that it always starts in ones feelings. How we are feeling and the situations we are experiencing at the time reflect in our work. I was going to say that real art comes from within and is a personal expression so commissioned work didn’t seem that real to me. While I still hold this point of view to some extent I can see that our emotions always bleed through into our work. If we look at the Sis Teen Chapel, considered one of the greatest works of all time, we learn that Michael Angelo didn’t even want to do it; he was a sculptor not a painter. But he took what he was commissioned to do and we see how it was an expression of him. We see this especially in the way he made the devil look like Biagio da Cesena that was something that was happening in his life and it came through in his work.
I think the hardest part about art for me is coming up with a concept to creatively display your emotions. If people simply painted rainbows when they were happy and rainy days when they were sad art would be extremely boring. Thankfully there is so much creativity in this world that this will never be the case.

How artists get to this concept differs, some see it before hand and then start their work, others begin working and the concept develops through the course of their work. I am the kind of person that starts and develops the idea, I like this style, as there cannot really be any mistakes as you are adapting and changing stuff as you go. If you picture something before hand, it may not come out the way you would have liked. When we did our carvings on the zinc tablets my work developed as it went, it started with a basic idea of me wanting to do a leaf, and then when I began the veins of the leaf I thought it would be cool to do them as different patterns, and as I started the patterns I began to see which ones I liked where. The whole piece developed from a simple leaf to my representation of the leaf, and what I thought would be fun to create.
I really believe that art is more of an internal thing, an expression of what is inside, and some people are just more gifted at displaying externally aka artists, but anyone can do art and that is why it is beautiful.