Re: ART Regular Output vs. Inspiration

[Stefan Tiedje <stefantiedje@googlemail.com>]

Rick Walker schrieb:
> This may be woefully different than the original (and all apologies
> to academics that I might offend with my rather primal and
> unsophisticated oral history approach that I use telling it but it is
> at least illustrative in it's 'big yarn' version.

Oral story approach is much better than the "truth". We love the stories
for their meaning. If you add your own perspective to it, your students
will grab the essence of it much better anyway. (First time I heard of
that story btw., no idea about the original)

> Amazingly and consistently,   the artwork from Camp TWO (constant
> output with our without inspiration)  was judged to be 'better art'
> than the artwork of Camp ONE (inspiration without necessary constant
> output).

That is what I would expect. I would ask the students what they'd expect
as a result. I wonder how young people, without their own experience of
what training can do, would look at it...

One misconception is often that you think inspiration is coming out of
nothing and you don't have to be forced to anything to grab it. But
that's not true, there is no contradiction of being forced to do
something (work in a completely different field to earn your living for
example) and getting inspired. Whatever life throws you in, is the
source of all the inspiration one can have including practice...

In my own experience I must say, deadlines help - definitely. If you 
don't have any you have to invent them. Its hard, I am not good at it. 
If ist coming from out side I happily accept it. It will drive me into 
stress, but after all is done I feel much better...

Only if there is no time left at all to do your art, there will be a 
problem...

Stefan

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