Artistic Genius and Psychology

Four characteristics of Artistic Genius are 1. Elevated condition of the artist; 2. Imposition of Form on Matter, e. g. on colors, sounds, words, etc.; 3. Novelty of artistic creation; and 4. Exemplariness of artistic creation.  So, because #4 entails communication between Artist and Audience, Atomist Psychology is inadequate to the concept of Genius.  Because #3 entails the destruction of established structures, Gestalt Psychology is inadequate to it.  And, likewise for Kant's hybrid, which seems to have no systematic relation to the "Spirit" to which he ascribes #1.  In contrast, according to Organicist Psychology, the behavior of each Member of a Species is determined by a principle that governs the latter, though, in routine circumstances, that ground tends to be forgotten by them, as has been previously discussed.  But, in extraordinary circumstances, e. g. the initiation of some novel adaptation of a Species to its Environment, the site of the initiation, i. e. some Member, experiences the occasion as an elevation.  So, Artistic Genius is one such extraordinary circumstance, e. g. as the human species begins to achieve a circumambient relation to the planet, Picasso's Cubism stimulates a corresponding novel visual awareness in his fellow humans.  In other words, unlike its rivals, Organicist Psychology is adequate to the concept of Genius.