"Create and share art from the soul" Isn't that the main notion of an artist? When we join hands to give life to a new composition, no matter what its scope, we ignite a spark within our being that is necessary to understand in order to be able to act out. Expressing oneself requires a minimum understanding of oneself before one can say "I'm going to express something". Taking this principle into account is fundamental for us artists.

We often question the "what we should create", thinking of the "what will be said" by the target audience, but have you questioned the almost supernatural potential of art if you subject it to the understanding of your emotions?

Whether you are a musician, writer, filmmaker, painter, performer, actor or any other artistic manifestation, you must understand that art has always been used as a vehicle of communication and therefore as a means of expressing emotions. Creators take part in their emotional reactions to give rise to their creative process and inspiration.

Abstracts emotions - Agnes Cecile

At the Latin American level, this way of working with art does not seem to be as consensual as we think. We observe artists who are afraid to show who they are and tend to create an image for others, what they expect them to be. Insecurity tends to be a common friend of these artists who accumulate experiences and emotions in a closed circle where their art is altered and framed in negativity and other emotions that, while also working to create art, are being nothing more than a kind of subemotion from which they could have created something much larger and real.

In other words, we usually cover love with pain, laughter with tears, life with death or vice versa, to name but a few examples where true artistic creativity is hidden in another, much less intense emotion, which, although it may create something truly sublime, is not achieving what the author originally wanted to represent, but what the consumer wants to see.

In every profession we tend to suffer moments that mark us for better or worse. This can be considered as an emotional injury which helps us to continue learning and growing in our process.

Picasso understood this term well and it was in this way that he became an emotional artist where he created more than 2000 paintings, living more than five artistic periods within himself and a variety of emotions transmitted on canvas: Melancholy, love, madness, passion, frustration, pain. Picasso was not afraid to show any of his emotions in his artistic process and it was this that led him to be recognized for his incredible work.

He never stopped painting emotions until the moment his death was near.

However, in order to take advantage of this emotional injury, it is necessary to know if there is any reason why we should live. The north of our actions and the right choices we will make in our artistic development. A first step is to try to be oneself and to act under our nature.

This concept is not only applicable in painting or the plastic arts. As we said in the beginning, all the arts are a vehicle of communication and artistic expression: reading implies connecting emotionally with the circumstance that is happening in the book; seeing a work implies smiling or shadowing one's face, being impressed or even clenching your fists full of fury; listening to any kind of music is like feeling that you explode in tears or boiling your blood with emotion; so successively with all the types of art that exist the consumer must feel connected with what is happening there and it is our duty to express it in the most sincere way possible.

The artist in such a way, must personify the image of what you seek to represent and expect the viewer to feel attracted to or reject the work completely under his own emotional sensation and sense of life.

Art acts as the mirror of the soul and reflects to a great extent what our spirit wants to transmit.

You have to understand that in order to work on all aspects of being an artist, the fundamental step is to understand your emotions, whether they turn out to be positive or negative. We must rediscover the meaning of each of them and know what they are conditioned to. In this way we prepare ourselves to be a better person and consequently we develop a better artist, living and knowing that we can discover ourselves thanks to the emotional intelligence we have developed.

By creating, we give ourselves the opportunity to get to know those sensations and concrete emotions that we later translate into art and thus we will be certain that the art we create will be an art from the heart, our true type of art full of emotion.