Art & Spirituality

Spirituality and art can be contentious issue because of the partisan nature of religion and how that can limit the creative interpretation of what it is that we do not know.  Change, like death and taxes, is part of life.  Why does religion resist it so?  Is it because we use religion to explain the inexplicable, and if those explanations change, we feel we must shift our understanding of the world in relation to that?  One correlation between art and spirituality  is the feeling of the encounter of a great work of art and how that relates to the feeling of blind faith in a higher power.  The way that has been expressed over time tells us about the intensity of religious zeal felt by different cultures throughout history, yet the pursuit of art for its own sake has occurred in only the last century.  Why did it take us so long to make art without divine inspiration?