§Art

Art is a diverse range of activities involving creative imagination to express beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.

It can represent:

aesthetic senses or values
the creation of works of beauty
a use of skill and creative imagination for the production of objects intended to be contemplated or appreciated as beautiful, as in the arrangement of forms, sounds, or words
imaginative skill applied to representations of the natural world or figments of the imagination
a field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature

Science and Spirituality are human concepts.
Art however, seems to be the only important category that is not exclusive to humans, which makes it much more important in my opinion.
Apes, elephants, dolphins, reptiles and others are skilled enough to create paintings.

“Art” can be synonym with general “Skills” or “Know-how”, but I don’t care about that meaning here.

Quotes

To develop a complete mind:
Study the science of art;
study the art of science.
Learn how to see.
Realize that everything connects to everything else.
– Leonardo da Vinci

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
– Banksy

Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.
– J.G. Ballard

If somebody has a creative gift and out of laziness, or for some other reason, doesn’t use it, that psychic energy turns into sheer poison. The refusal of higher development or higher consciousness is one of the most destructive things there is. It makes people automatically want to pull back everybody else who tries.
– Marie Louise von Franz

Articles

Animal-made ‘art’ challenges human monopoly on creativity

Art is usually considered a uniquely human ability, but that may not be true.
Given the opportunity, animals like chimpanzees, gorillas and elephants produce abstract designs that arguably rise to artistic level.
https://wired.com/2012/02/animal-art

Can you guess which Houston Zoo animals created these artworks?

Berani, a 6-year-old Malayan tiger at the “Houston Zoo”, likes to create works of art by walking through paint and leaving a trail of paw prints and tail swipes. Berani is just one of many different species of animal artists at the Houston Zoo, though.
https://chron.com/neighborhod/photos/article/Houston-Zoo-Animal-Art-program-paintings-14879215.php

“Nature’s Nursery” animals create art to raise money

The nonprofit organization is turning to tails, talons, and turtles as the tools for creating paintings.
https://13abc.com/2021/01/28/natures-nursery-animals-create-art-to-raise-money

Animal artwork requests from “Saint Louis Zoo”

https://stlzoo.org/give/zoomerchandise/animalartwork

Can animals create art?

This article claims that animals don’t really create art.
I don’t agree with that conclusion, but I’m keeping it here as a link.
https://scienceblogs.com/bioephemera/2008/03/06/can-animals-create-art

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