On Mar 31, 2008, at 9:20 AM, Chris Miller wrote:
Can anyone offer any examples of images that were made by people who
didn't
know how to make them ? (excluding those instances where the maker
herself
rejected the image as a failure)
Teach a drawing class. The instances are legion. In fact, the
students' errors can be divided into lack of manual skills in
execution (can't draw well) and lack of discrimination in seeing the
drawing (the student sees what he expects to see, rather than what is
there--a form of the intentional fallacy, btw).
If you cannot make your hand do what you want it to do, you have to
accept what you can make. Usually, that leads to poor art, but
sometimes necessity mothers the invention of lemonade. Many people
cannot sing well, but some few with limited vocal skills prove to be
good "interpretive" singers (as the term is often used). For the most
part, makers of apparently undisciplined or unskilled efforts, in
whatever form, possess the skills to do not only what they want to do,
but what a jaundiced viewer or listener wants them to be able to do
(even though they don't prefer to do that).
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