How does art happen? That is like asking a Dalmatian how it got its configuration of spots- it’s both natural and unpredictable. We can consciously try to breed a new idea to get a certain out come but more likely than not we cannot foresee every turn that art will take. Whether it be to sit down and forge a new creation or to accidently stumble across something that you have produced by mistake can manifest itself as art. Personally I have my art moments when I least expect it, when I get a flash forward of an image of inspiration. However, it is with that image that I try to create something but usually I find my manifestation of what is in my mind to deviate- losing the image in translation from my brain to my fingers. It was during our art session that I really took a closer look, to not only my own art process, but of those around me.
To begin understanding the art process and how it happens we must take a look at the artist as an individual. As I sat in the classroom I observed a few people delve right into the process and begin etching into their zinc palate a picture that they had chosen. Others were found to be at a loss, me included. I also have to note that this form of art in not idyllic for everyone- this must also be taken into consideration when analyzing the process of art. Everyone has their own picture of what art is and others may not be able to work with in the same confines of a medium that suits another artist. Michelangelo preferred to sculpt and was rather vexed when he was commissioned to paint the Sistine Chapel. I heard a great deal of frustration of those around me as they were forming their creation because it not what they wanted, however, they may be able to create something that it more their taste when using other supplies.
Art is also something that can be conscious or unconscious. When the metal piece is sitting right in front of you it is difficult to picture what you want. However, once I began to draw lines I let me hand take over and flow over the metal. The picture was rather unclear, yet I liked what I saw and then began to consciously recreate it on other portions of my canvas. The art teacher that came to show us this form of art, gave each of us a few pictures that she wanted us to use somewhere in our final creation. This was not really what I had in mind and I became a little confused when she took my tool out of my hand and began to etch on my zinc piece. This is what I have never understood about art teachers, how they can tell me that art is different for everyone and yet insist on the way in which it should really be done.
Therefore, everyone’s form of art is different and cannot be defined by one set of rules. This being said, we must also share a point from the viewers of all art. Everyone can see art differently; therefore define the process of art in their own way. One creation may be seen as nothing more than a pile of nothingness which then throws the process of how it was created out the window. While on the other hand someone may see the same pile of art as beautiful and creative. Art can be whatever you want it to be and in the same way created however you want it to, whether it be on accident or purposefully. The outcome can either be carefully calculated by one artist, yet in someone else’s hands it can be created at random with an unpredicted outcome.
Art is beautiful and its creation is tangent on the artist and the interpretation of the viewers. It is the creative process that must contour itself to the artist and not the other way around. Art can be planned like crossing two breeds but it can also be a mutt with the creation of something being born from random mixes of ideas both conscious and unconscious.
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