Living With Art Essay Joshua McCoy

Where does the impulse to create art come from?
The impulse to create art comes from the artist imagination and life experience. The word impulse means: the influence of a particular feeling, mental state, and so on. One perfect example is Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, in 1982. It is to honor all of the Veterans that had given there life for this country in a war that the United States should not have been a part of. Some times artists have the impulse to put thins in strange places like René Magritte, Delusions of Grandeur 2, in 1948. Also there can be the impulse to do something that is of religious importance like Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper, about 1496ish. …