It’s always intriguing to watch a creator do their work and at the same time dispensing sage wisdom, gathered from years of experience. Somehow all that talking seems to be adding some value to the work as the creating happens.
Author: WL
Abandoning Originality
https://psyche.co/ideas/to-be-creative-chinese-philosophy-teaches-us-to-abandon-originality My conversations with people around me on the subject of creativity are very often met with a wishful expression — “oh how I wish I know how to do art” — sometimes tinged with envy — “if only I can be that creative!” I relish in these moments. They show that people do think […]
About Play
https://aeon.co/essays/play-is-cathartic-allowing-people-to-sit-with-their-shadows ‘The game is the process, not the finished product. Importantly, when we play and make art, the products we make, the things we do are autotelic – they are their own end in themselves; as Hannah Arendt wrote: ‘only where we are confronted with things which exist independently of all utilitarian and functional references […]
Who is Henri Rogers
This is an interesting investigation of an elusive artist hailed as the ‘Parisian Bob Ross’.
Art That Was Never Finished
I would have loved to view this art exhibition in person. One reason I find paintings done particularly from the Renaissance to pre-Impressionistic periods difficult to grasp is that they look so anatomically realistic and ‘complete’. As if the artist’s only intention was to perfect the technicalities behind the art-making, or that the artwork can […]