Ummm...
[no Freudian or Jungian stuff about that, please]....LOL!
OK. shucks, that might have been fun
People break their backs trying to read *something deep* into everything when the possibility exists that then, as now, people created art simply because they were artists....:)
That is the truth! My wife paints, because she needs to. (She is pretty good, too, imo. )
Here's the bad news, Joe.
"Art" is something in your head that you -must- let out *somehow* or it will drive you batty.
Buy her lots of art supplies....or she'll explode.....:D