10/30/2007
The issue of what creativity is/isn't
Although the ancestors have probably been intentionally discarded thousands of time, there is an association between a breakdown in traditions, kinship, and the flourishing of the arts. By flourishing of the arts, I am not referring to such things as the vast number of art forms used by the traditional people of Bali, or to the process of producing a work of art, I am referring to dramatic changes in style. Most call this rapid and dramatic change using the term: creativity.
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I don't see how we can even get onto the same page, you and I. Maybe we could sit down together in front of my computer and go through the thousands of paintings and sculptures and drawings that I have downloaded or photographed either because I might learn something from them (even if I think they are ugly, poorly done, ill-conceived, whatever) or, most often, because I think they are wonderful, brilliant, knock me out, again whatever. And then you could tell me what you think about each one. I would say these latter artists are CREATIVE, but you would say that if they have not invented a new, maybe even destructive, style, they are NOT? They are working in various media and in wildly differing styles, but they are only rarely inventing anything new, even though they are all over the map. The map is now as large as the universe. That is the glory. GLORY.
To respond to the trouble with art criticism is going to take me longer, mostly because I not only agree with MOST of what you say, but I already knew most all of that, even the specific critics and quotes. I DID read your book. I also read this stuff fairly regularly in the paper, magazines, my own library. That means, I will actually have to pay attention and pick it apart word by word...a chore. You are WONDERFUL, how you put it all together sequentially, seemingly quickly and easily (whether true or not is unimportant, so long as it SEEMS so). Myself,I just stagger from thought to thought. After all, my living doesn't depend on doing much of anything carefully except the daily banking, and I even screw up there on occasion. sigh
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