Zed A. Shaw, Painter

Conundrum: An intellectual activity uses your brain. A physical activity users your body. Yet, people consider art (like painting) neither intellectual or physical. Then...what is it? Explain what kind of activity art is without brain or body physiology explanations.

I think there is a term I'm forgetting, but it's essentially an emotional, reactionary, instinctual sort of activity. Which means it's still in the brain, but the subconscious part part that deals with intuition and such things. Other people would describe this as spiritual.

That's intellectual. It's a fallacy to believe that instinctual stimulus response is not intellectual simply because it doesn't use fully articulate words. In fact, a massive amount of your brain's processing is done entirely w/o being articulated into words.

Then my guess is either art is intellectual or spiritual, depending on one's stance on the existence of one's spirit.