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Your work and art are an expression of you. How can you express something effectively that you deem unimportant?
by seanthemon 2y ago
Your work and art are an expression of you. How can you express something effectively that you deem unimportant?
- aethertron 2y agoNot to downplay my personal importance (=make an ostentatious display of humility, lol) I can work on art and projects to express the importance of other things in the world that aren't myself.
- throwaway48540 2y agoBut it's still your expression, or put another way an expression of you. Imagine art critics studying your art - they would be asking what was your history, context, what happened to you and what was going through your head that made you do this. It's always about you, even - maybe especially, considering that defeating one's ego is still noteworthy - if you don't want it to be about you. Making art that's not about the artist is reserved to LLM... At least for now.
- DiscourseFan 2y agoI would hope that my art is not just for art critics
- simplify 2y agoFirst, humility is an under-appreciated virtue in today's world. Second, the idea of "your work and art are an expression of you" is dangerously self-centered, in that it can limit your growth by pushing you conform to acceptance over aspiration.
- DiscourseFan 2y agoNo, I am extremely self-centered. The fact that I can create great things only adds to my own greatness as a person, but I recognize that my personal greatness will always be eclipsed by the greatness of my works.
- DiscourseFan 2y agoThey are and at the same time they overcome me, they are more than just "me." And that is why the possibility for greatness lies in the artwork, and not the person.