Please read Chapter 8 and respond to 4 of the following Questions by Tuesday November 20 since we don't have class on the Wednesday before thanksgiving. Enjoy your friends and family and eat lots of turkey. Gobble, Gobble!
1. Are
you an artist who sets clear goals and looks for measurable feedback? Is it the
technical stuff you challenge yourself with? Are you “doing a perfect swan dive
off of the low board?” Have you learned to see beyond the simple and measurable
goals and set the challenge a bit higher for yourself?
2. What
do you think about the statement “art that deals with ideas is more interesting
than art that deals with [just] technique.”
3. “Art lies embedded in the conceptual leaps between
pieces – not in the pieces themselves.” Do you see a conceptual difference in
your work – piece to piece? (Think about the example of the craft of the 5
Stienway piano’s and the art of the 5 Beethoven concerti that can be played on
them.)
4. The authors speak of seeing as “To see things is to
enhance your sense of wonder both for the singular pattern of your own
experience and for the meta-patterns that shape all experience.” Throughout
this process of becoming an artist – have you learned to see? Explain how you
have or have not.
5. Based on the reading… what is the difference
between science and art? Do you see any similarities?
6.Are you an artist who views the world as happening
”out there,” or as one who views the world happening within yourself?
7. Can you remember when, or even if has happened, you had the “lightning shift” from having to work very hard to understand the art making process to when it just happened? (P 110 – the French Language example.)
8. Readers may wish to note that nowhere in this book does the C-word (creativity) appear. Why
should it? Do only some people have ideas, confront problems, dream, live
in the real world and breathe air? What do you think about the fact that nowhere do
the authors attribute successful art to the idea of CREA**VITY?
