iandol on sun 17 sep 00
Anthony Allison made the following comment
< the common thread for every real artist is that art is about =
CREATIVITY>
If I knew what you meant by Creativity I might agree. But surely the =
common thread for every artist, real, virtual or imaginary, is Emotion.
Perhaps it is important to emphasise the distinction between the Maker =
and the Consumer. Many people are responding to this thread are =
commenting in the same breath as though they are both. Hence some mixed =
messages about evaluation and judgement.
Introducing Creativity into the equation tends to muddy the water for no =
lesser reason that it is often impossible to show that this function has =
occurred. Is Create being used as a synonym for Invent? Should it be?
Some correspondents have from time to time drawn a distinction between =
Art and Science as though they are different. Should they be better =
regarded as alternative intellectual functions? Can you accept that Art =
is a science, the product of experiment and reason? Can you accept that =
Science is an art where leaps of intuition are necessary to reveal new =
insights?
It seems no one has suggested the distinguishing attribute of any work =
which may be called Art is its capacity to incite Human Emotion. I =
imagine Picasso would have been crushed had people been indifferent to =
his products. His work makes people emotional. Would you like people to =
be indifferent to your products?? Can you achive that degree of energy =
through your work?
Be an artist, be like Picasso - incite emotion; violence, sadness or =
happiness. He knew how to define new flavours.
Ivor Lewis
Carrie or Peter Jacobson on mon 18 sep 00
On the table, we have creation and emotion as the common thread for every
artist.
I beg to differ. These are secondary. Expression, in my opinion, is the
common thread, no matter what kind of art. You can have all the emotion and
all the creativity in the world, but if you do not have some desire to
express it, you don't have art.
Carrie Jacobson
Bolster's Mills, Maine
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