The Intuition of Beauty and the Creation of Artistic Work

Understanding beauty and love helps us comprehend art from the perspective of Mulla Sadra more deeply. In his works, he sporadically discusses 15 types of formal beauties and 16 types of content beauties, which is unparalleled in the history of Islamic philosophy. From the perspective of Sadra’s philosophy, humans are God’s vicegerents in all His names, including names such as Creator, Originator, Beautiful, “Every day He is in some affair”, and Seeker. Therefore, humans are artists by proxy, and all features of divine art also exist in humans by proxy and at a lower level. Mulla Sadra’s explanation of imagination clarifies the relationship between humans, art, and divine vicegerency. This explanation is presented in various works of Sadra.