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An artist must be taught, by another artist -- or through trial and error, the artist can teach him or herself.
But sometimes the pencil teaches me. I will be doodling, and suddenly find myself amazed at the strange, symmetrical beauty of the shapes of the squares, triangles, and hexagons furling out from the nib. The presence of the pencil has released something from my unconscious mind. I will be staring at a line, attempting to draw my other hand or even just write my name and the strange turn and twist of the lines will urge me on to newer, more fruitful creative heights. A tropical flower, a dog jumping rope, or an abstract image will suddenly come, generated by the presence of the pencil and the inspiration of the lines it makes, not my thinking mind at all.
Richard Selzer has said that a surgeon...
After creating an image, bringing it to life, the artist must go back and edit out what does not work: ruthlessly, I must erase, re-do, reshape, and re-shade.
Sometimes the pencil is simply a way for me to exercise as an artist, a work-out tool, as I practice figure drawing and other assignments, or I copy sketches from famous black-and-white artists from the past like Escher and Durer.
At other times, the pencil is merely a precursor to what I will attempt with a brush, on an artist's canvas, or a graphic design I create on my computer. But no matter what other media I explore, from clay to computer design, I can never abandon the pencil. For me, the pencil is the original inspiration of my art, connected to my body like an extension of my hand.
Sometimes, a paintbrush is used to create great circles, squares, and triangles of color that do not look like anything that can be found in life. The exciting, dynamic, and vivid use of the paintbrush show the viewer an imaginary world from the mind of the artist that only paint can create in its use of color. Sometimes a paintbrush can be used to blend colors on the canvas, to
Again, this feminine passivity outshines masculine action in its ability to experience divine and even human love. As Crashaw continues, the erotic imagery becomes more emboldened and perhaps slightly more ambiguous, not clouding or confounding interpretation but suggesting several alternatives that work towards the same end of demonstrating the purity of passivity in its relation to the divine. After setting up the concept of virginity, love, and an active passivity
Thus, we assume that children gifted in the arts are every bit as intellectually endowed as those with academic gifts. The relationships among giftedness, talent development, and creativity are challenging areas of research. Because researchers lack consensus about what constitutes creativity itself, progress in developing operational definitions of "creativity" has been slow (Clark & Zimmerman, 1992-page 344; Csikzentmihalyi, 1996; Hunsaker & Callahan, 1995-page 2). Although some scholars agree that creative
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