The Cult of Personality

In our day, the cult of personality reigns, supporting the Romantic view that creativity means high emotion, outrageous behavior, non-conforming values and art as theater. In the turning cycle of fashion and belief, we might anticipate that following our era, a new day of Classical values will return. When the Classicists hold sway, order, symmetry, grandeur, nobility, and wit are reflected in art. When the Romanticists prevail, chaos, randomness, grittiness, social leveling, and facetiousness reappear. The Classicists replace the cult of personality with the elevation of impersonal standards, ideals, and historical models. Both Romantic and Classic artists seek to produce enduring works of art (unless part of their aesthetic is allegiance to the fleeting). Both Romantic and Classic artists strive to manifest their unique vision in a form that other people can experience.

In our day, artists with a Classical temperament are the odd men (and women) out. They may not be heard in the cacophony of the cult of personality. Creative Spirit Center offers opportunities to artists who are Romantic in temperament, but also to the Classicists among us. If you are an artist, be you quiet or be you loud, you can find a hearing (and a seeing and a tasting and a smelling and a feeling, if need be) here.

We open our doors to diversity, a diversity that goes beneath the surface of appearance, lip service, or convenience. We are open to experiencing the diverse temperaments of the artists among us. Come and share your sensibility -- Romanticists, Classicists, post-modernists, post-post-modernists -- we are waiting for you.