If it affects you in some way, if it speaks or reveals the truth of something, even if only one’s own subjective truth, if it causes you to question life or to see something differently, from another angle, it is Art, to me.
I can say that Art comes from the psyche.
Art is ALSO an image of the self trying to express and to make sense of the world around us.
I wouldn’t have that on my wall - art is a personal preference - but it is very thought provoking and also poignant to me.
It can make one wonder what it is/was that the artist is trying to say? That could be different for everyone.
Things are not always to be taken at face value.
Delving into a particular work of art can be like an archaeological dig - much to be revealed.
Perhaps it came from the same place that philosophy came from…simply put, trying to figure things out. lol
You saying “I mean the metaphysical type” suggests that you see another type.
If you used the word psyche belonging to all aspects of the human being or Self, then I might agree with you that art can come from that soul.
But that isn’t necessarily eternal.
Art does also come from culture - I think also adopted and adapted from others’ cultures - but if that means it comes from soul, is it THE SOUL predominantly - meaning that intangible metaphysical thing which cannot be seen or felt but is eternal) or does SOUL here mean something else?
Doesn’t the culture of a people include their history, individual and universal, their thinking, beliefs, their rituals, their struggles, their achievements, their failures, the very genes and blood which have flowed within them from their ancestors?
Isn’t this a different kind of Soul? I do not see this as the Soul which came from a God but the Soul which has been created from a people and an on-going one, until that group of people has died out. Even then, perhaps it will be carried over to others.
Different Souls, right? Distinctions are important.