This is hard to explain but if you don’t have any experience or influence with art, and your kind of a blank slate, why is it so impossible to have any ideas about art? If you’ve never seen something before why can’t you have an idea about what it is?
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Most artists work from reference. They’re typically not just coming up with whatever’s on their minds. Painters are painting something in their environment or something they’ve sketched out or drawn for example. It’s very difficult to just imagine something from scratch unless you have a lot of references built up in your brain to pull from. Otherwise the stuff on your mind is often just a mess of ideas and feelings not a cohesive picture. And even if it is a clear picture if you don’t have the skills to represent that picture as a drawing or sketch or something it will fade away. Art relies very heavily on skills not just inspiration.
Most artists work from reference. They’re typically not just coming up with whatever’s on their minds. Painters are painting something in their environment or something they’ve sketched out or drawn for example. It’s very difficult to just imagine something from scratch unless you have a lot of references built up in your brain to pull from. Otherwise the stuff on your mind is often just a mess of ideas and feelings not a cohesive picture. And even if it is a clear picture if you don’t have the skills to represent that picture as a drawing or sketch or something it will fade away. Art relies very heavily on skills not just inspiration.
do we know that the premise of your question is true? it seems to me it’s impossible to find a person who hasn’t been exposed to art.
do we know that the premise of your question is true? it seems to me it’s impossible to find a person who hasn’t been exposed to art.
Art is a lot like philosophy, or any field really: there is a context and a conversation going on. It’s not happening in a vacuum. Imagine walking into a room and knowing exactly what would make everyone drop what they’re doing and listen. That’s what savants are like. There’s a reason it’s incredible.
Art is a lot like philosophy, or any field really: there is a context and a conversation going on. It’s not happening in a vacuum. Imagine walking into a room and knowing exactly what would make everyone drop what they’re doing and listen. That’s what savants are like. There’s a reason it’s incredible.
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