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THE ‘CREATIVE’ BLANK TO FILL
Are creative process and creative outcome different? What happens when we see the creative process as the outcome or the outcome as the process itself? As Creators, what we make…
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HOW ART HIDES AND REVEALS
The world is beautiful but not sayable.” – Charles Simie Art conveys what words cannot explain. The beauty in art is its unverbal as well as verbal nature. What we…
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WHY ORIGINALITY IN ART MATTERS
“You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.” – Ben Mikaelsen “Art is either revolution or plagiarism.” – Paul Gauguin What copying means to an artist can be variant…
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HOW WE CAN KEEP ART SIMPLE
"A great artist is a simplifier.” – Vincent Van Gogh Simplification is the game of the brave and the symbol of greatness. Relevance and relativity always has greater range in…
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WHAT MAKES ARTISTS INTERESTING
“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think is still the secret of great creative people.” – Leo Burnett Knowing the unknown has been something that has always…
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THE SEEN AND UNSEEN IN ART
French Artist (classic painter) Edgar Degas once said “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” Why do we make art? Does art need a purpose…
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PERFECTION AND MASTERY IN ART
Spanish artist (surrealist) Salvador Dali once said “Have no fear of perfection, you will never reach it.” What do we term as perfection when we create? What do we idealise…
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ROLES OF IMAGINATION AND REALITY IN ART
Spanish artist (cubist painter) Pablo Picasso once said “Everything you can imagine is real.” What we perceive of our imagination or think is our imagination can fully translate as reality…
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THE SIGHT OF THE SEEN IN ABSTRACT ART
When we create, we often frame the subject in a particular way; that is, what we see as Creators and what we choose to show our viewers. The hidden, the…
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THE ORIGIN OF ARTISTIC IDEAS AND THEIR JOURNEYS
THE HOW-AND-WHERE MAGIC - The hows-and-the-wheres for an artist could be many things or simply, the process. When one of us gets a ‘brilliant idea’, we get asked, “Where did…