Monday, February 1, 2010
What makes an artist?
For starters, I am trying to find the essence of the artist. Along with feeling the need to capture the human experience, the artist is someone who truly has little choice about whether or not to pursue their rightful creative genius. The curiosity of the artist is something that is insatiable, sometimes irritable and occasionally wide awake and calm. Some artists are lucky to really find their outlets, whereas others just live their lives searching for it and never find a way to encapsulate, to put their finger onto what is beautiful about life or what is disgraceful about humans. The artist often creates drama and fractures him/herself in the process, bounding from sanity to insanity, from love to hate, from hunger to starvation over and over and over again. I myself find that it is the artist that attempts to see life as though it were a piece of art, something to moulded and caressed, adored and critiqued.
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hey robro, interesting blog! as an artist, i am constantly seeking new ways to express myself...sometimes through something new, sometimes through a combination of media. for me, now, it's filmmaking, that also incorporates photography and animation. as for the drama inherent in the artistic lifestyle, i am trying to step away from that - i find it drains too much of the emotional energy vital to the creative mind...
ReplyDeleteBTW, it's doreen posting as parisgirl
ReplyDeleteI still think the drama fuels amazing art.
ReplyDeleteParisgirl,
ReplyDeleteYou are definitely right about the drama draining "the emotional energy vital to the creative mind". I just think the creative mind is inspired by something other than the beautiful, the pleasant, the joyous.