There is an assumption that you have to be mad to want to an artist and if you succeed then the evidence of madness is obvious.
MaADNESS – THE NECESSARY INGREDIENT FOR SUCCESS
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Opinion
Ruskin, artistic virtue and a just society
There is no doubt that the art of the last century or so has reflected massive social change and that both the technology used to create art and the subject matter would be unrecognisable to Ruskin.
THE CULT OF THE NEW AND THE OBSESSION WITH NOVELTY
Much has been written about the idea of originality in art but in the end just what does ‘originality’ mean? Before the 20th century it wasn’t a term much considered. Artist studios were places where apprentices went to learn from the master and with the advent of Art Schools, nothing much changed. The cult of originality is a 20th century obsession and yet it ignores or neglects that much great art was produced within the western tradition using traditional techniques.
Considerations of Proustian genius
The narrator hypothesises that all artists owe allegiance to a moral contract
The Proustian Process
The equivalent of Proust’s cahiers are my note and sketchbooks. I record, interpret and examine continually both as a painter and a writer.
HOW WILL WE DEFINE THIS ERA?
Historically we can look back over the last century and see how art reflected the time in which it was made.