What are the important emotional and thinking activities in the process of artistic creation?

As a complex and arduous aesthetic creation activity, artistic creation not only has the unique characteristics of psychological activities, but also has a way of thinking different from other human social practice activities and scientific research. In the process of artistic creation, artists should take thinking in images as the main body, and at the same time need to comprehensively use abstract thinking and inspiration to form an organic dialectical relationship, thus promoting the progress of artistic creation activities. The two basic ways for human beings to know the world are image thinking and abstract thinking. Thinking in images is a main way of thinking adopted by artists in the whole process of creative activities, from discovering life and experiencing life to carrying out artistic conception, forming artistic image and materializing it into artistic image or artistic conception. It is a complex psychological activity, with concrete and overall images as thinking materials. Image thinking has the characteristics of concreteness, emotion and creativity. The concreteness of thinking in images means that thinking in images always takes tangible things or objects as thinking materials. The emotionality of thinking in images refers to the rich aesthetic feeling permeated in the process of thinking in images. Creativity of thinking in images refers to creating a new image or a new artistic conception on the basis of the original thinking materials. ② Abstract thinking is a thinking method that uses concepts to judge, reason and demonstrate. Image thinking and abstract thinking play a role in artists' creative activities, and they can complement and promote each other. (3) Inspiration refers to the special psychological phenomenon that the artist suddenly appears at a certain time in the creative process, which is manifested in the fact that the creative impulse and creative ability far exceed the usual level, and the artistic conception or communication has made a leap through epiphany. The characteristics of inspiration are: suddenness, extraordinary and perishable. Thinking in images is related to inspiration, and they often interact with each other.