Yes art may be a natural thing to some but it can most definitely be learned by any. To be a successful artist can trully be a lonely road- just as with anything else. There are going to be times when nobody likes your work and you are the only one. There are going to be times when you yourself feel frustrated with what you are doing and have to find that drive from within to keep going- we can't let the fear of not being successful hold us back- because then, in fact, we can never be successful. My favorite line out of the whole article was "Consider that if artist equals self, then when (inevitably) you make flawed art, you are a flawed person, and when (worse yet) you make no art, you are no person at all!" That was very inspiring to me.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Fear
Art is something that releases peoples emotions and lets the artist express him or herself in there own ways; but what about the fear of it all. This article expresses well why even after failure time and time again an artist should not be afraid to still display his work but to take that make move on. In the art world, critisism is always going to be there. No artist has ever made it to the top without others bashing their work at some point and time. I love how it says that there are countless numbers of drawings that an artist will do; and none of them seem masterful until that artist has a very popular piece; and then all of a sudden his past work is also genius.
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After reading a few other C&P blogs regarding "Fear," I think my original thoughts towards it have changed. Actually, after reading your blog I think I may have been interpreting the whole article in a way that wasn't intended. When I read this, to me it seemed that the author was sort of BS-ing; he came across a bit wishy washy to me. I believed he was saying something more along the lines of "most of your artwork isn't important," but I'm starting to see now maybe that wasn't exactly what he meant. It seems a lot of people found the article inspiring, and I agree that some of the quotes did affect me in some way. The statement you quoted from the article at the end of your blog was definitely something that made me smile. And honestly, I think when I wrote my blog, I just forgot or blocked out other ideas from the article. I forgot he had pointed out that once one artist's work becomes popular, all of a sudden people claim all their past works were also hinting at brilliance. Your blog seemed to trigger my memory of other pieces of that article that I didn't really think about when writing my response. :)
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