I believe that when the exorbitantly high pressures of life are beyond withstanding, we begin to express ourselves in a capacity higher than is usually attained through the average medium of energy transference. This is why so many expressions that become revered as exquisite art begin with a person’s desperate and dire search for God within. Beethoven wrote the composition Für Elise for his greatest love, whom he dearly wanted to marry. That did not happen. She, instead, chose to marry the nobleman Johann Wilhelm von Drosdick. It is one of the most famous musical compositions ever stemming from an obsessive and desperate love for Therese (“Elise” in the composition).
Most famous art forms are expressions rendered after extreme shock forces the artist to absorb a great amount of negative energy. In a process of self-healing, the artist exhales the negative energy, attempting to replace it with the love of God by expressionism through any art form. Appreciating true art is the fabulous process through which a formidable audience admiringly witnesses the artist’s secretion of negativity onto a safe canvas within the universe. This negative energy, now under the artist’s directorship, transforms into God’s love energy in the form of eternal expression. It is eternal because the state of pure love energy is eternal; God is eternal.
Art is probably our most important medium of expression and release for maintaining sanity, communicating love, and remaining hopeful. Without art, one would disintegrate upon inheriting powerful negative blows from the ego’s influence when battling to secure a path to pure love.
Often, great artists are categorized as mentally unstable. I suggest that we describe them in such ways due to our lack of understanding of the higher expressionist capacity of the artist who endured great emotional imbalance through unique events affecting them on the path to God. Appreciating their art is a matter of our ability to interpret what we connect with on their canvas through comprehension stemming from similar parallel portions of our distinct journey. Edvard Munch, Vincent Van Gogh, Francisco Goya, Paul Gaugin, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Michelangelo are but a few of those great people who were able to release the pressure onto a simple brush, creating harmony with each stroke of genius—yet never madness.
