Definition of an Artist Revisted
A while ago, I mentioned my definition of an artist. Today, my niece was painting a chain of paper dolls. When she was done, she showed them to me and said, “Look, Aunt Kate, isn’t it beautiful? That makes me an artist.” I think I like her definition - an artist is someone who makes something beautiful. But what about ugly art? It’s still art. So maybe an artist is someone who makes something that means something to him or her, no matter how ugly or pretty it looks to the viewer. (By the way, the dolls are beautiful. They’re a rainbow of colorful little people.)
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bill
Dec 12, 2007 at 9:16 pm
An artist captures the historical event and express it in a painting. Everybody can draw to a degree but few can capture an event, artists are like historians who wrote the story of the event impartially, words that we can relate to the logic and behaviour of then civilization.
Creative artist captures the event, be it abstractly or vividly. For example, a simple painting describing four grown ups line in a line and only wearing pants laughing and teasing at four other grown ups using their figures acting as executors executing them, such a painting usually takes days but would fetch millions, as it’s a piece of art capturing a historical event of the time.
The artist who painted that painting not necessary a master craftsman but was able to paint the title of his painting in our head, yes you guessed it right. It’s called the ‘Mock Execution’ by a young Chinese artist who was recording a historical event of the time then in China, this artist is a time impartial historian. Painters who depicts and recreate the artist’s work worth little.
@ an extract at the bottom of my web page http://www.freeuknetwork.co.uk/Painting_Folder/war.htm
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