“Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”
Pablo Picasso
GOOD TASTE IN ART
I agree with Pablo (quoted above) - and also one of my idols, Max Ernst, who said "Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted”. I made my digital image with these in mind, a sort of tongue-in-cheek statement. I use the phrase "Good Taste in Art" in some of my videos in the closing credits, and also in printed material, hoping that both Pablo and Max will understand how I mean this:
I didn't record the steps I took, except the result of the initial image (selfie) with the Magna Mater Pizza already added:
the photo was taken in my studio in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada - back then, no beard, no long hair!
The paintings used for the image
PABLO'S LAST CONCERT
Now I am flooding you with quotes about art, and you may want to follow some of those links in order to see what interested me about the thoughts of the artists mentioned. We all have to endure criticism at times, and Duchamp put it bluntly:
“Not everyone is an artist but everyone is a fucking critic.”
Marcel Duchamp
These works were from my mature period already. I was not always that accomplished. While I was always good with drawing, painting was a struggle for quite some time, until I began to study the methods of the "Vienna School of Fantastic Realism" more closely. By the time I entered University (1977 to 82), I had already established my style. Starting out is a struggle, as the quote below so well says:
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
Ira Glass
The above is a writers perspective - and then we have Picasso again that tells you to loosen up:
“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”
Pablo Picasso
OK Pablo, here is the perfect video to get motivated:
and that is all I have to say about this!
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