To my understanding, visual artists are artists who distinctly experience the visual aspects of life and then replicate it depending on skill into art forms that people can actually see and feel something from.
I think there's a fine tuning involved in experiencing visuals distinctly, it could be there's some natural disposition too, given I've met children like my niece who's fascinated by the vivid blue-ness of the sky. The term she often says is the sky is very very blue!
I personally would just translate it as blue via my ordinary mind, the vividness only dawned on me later on when I lived less in my ordinary mind.
I think words tend to fall short in describing this blueness of the sky, it's not just vivid but also alive in a way that makes it look like the sky is dynamic, outside of the moving clouds of course, it has dimension, so to speak.
For added context, living in one's ordinary mind is kind of a technical term for living in a state of mind that's characterized by the almost endless chattering of the mind. I'm not sure what's the equivalent of that is on an emotional level other than being caught in a constant swirl of reactions that never quite settle down.
Living in the ordinary mind once you've got a glimpse of living outside of the ordinary mind can be quite unbearable, no peace/silence, a chaotic soup that keeps getting stirred and never finds stillness, unless one is asleep of course.
Presence beneath the noise
Outside of the ordinary mind, this state at least for me is best described as the silence where every sound springs from and returns to.
I'll hear a bird sing and then later it stops, a car horning in the distance, which then also stops, passersby having a lively conversation about an upcoming party, that also stops either them having a short break in between sentences or reaching outside of my hearing range, the background that stays between all these sounds is what I'm talking about, that underlying quiet presence.
A bit similar to self-awareness and won't be surprised if this state is actually an aspect of self-awareness.
Now, back to visual artists and visual experiences having so much depth in them that words become almost useless in capturing what's really there.
I think replicating them into various art forms, especially if one's expectations are high is a big challenge because 1) the art medium needs to be fine tuned into something that can hold that depth and translate it properly, and 2) the subject may not be able to reach that depth if they themselves haven't experienced life beyond the ordinary mind, which means the art might end up being technically good but missing that alive quality that makes you stop and really see something.
The latter is why as of late I'm pushed towards revisiting some of the artworks I saw years ago, to see if I can catch what I missed the first time around.
Might also consider doing the same thing with books I've read a couple of years ago that left a distinct impression, good or bad.
Everything is not art, but most things are embedded with something worth seeing in one shape or another.
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