Visual art is about looking and thinking too.
Visual artists create images, (imagine), from within the mind - the inner self, as well as from what they observe in the external environment.
Artists can - with varying success - reproduce a visual experience from observation and do the same from thinking - in the broadest sense. That is 'visualise' concepts, philosophies, cosmologies, emotions and points of view. All are rendered in point, line, form, colour and tone, in two dimensions, (eg drawings, paintings, prints, collage) or three (eg sculpture, assemblages, constructions) or four (visual experiences through time, eg video and deliberately manipulated sculptural experiences such as some forms of land art).
Artists create visual metaphors of life's experiences and speculations through varied symbolism, from absolute abstraction to those images which have a closest possible photographic or three dimensional exactitude.
Why? To articulate for us and themselves their experience of the material world and the inner world and all that that may mean for life itself.
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