One can create a subject that you know easier than a subject that you're not as familiar with. Gi fts could help. ab
On Dec 10, 2013, at 1:46 PM, [email protected] wrote: > You have to finish it. No gifts needed,just truck on through. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cheerskep <[email protected]> > To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]> > Sent: Tue, Dec 10, 2013 2:37 pm > Subject: Re: comment invited > > Michael writes: > "when you encounter a painting or song or > other creation that you cannot imagine creating yourself, you are > looking > at > something that you do not know how to start." > > When I was an unknowingly benighted youth, I could ostensibly "start" > works > in a number of genres. For example, I could invent a melodic line for > my > symphony, and a passable first line or two of a poem. But I lacked the > gifts > necessary to the full execution. I could not hear in my ear any complex > orchestration. I could fuzzily picture the attitude and posture of a > figure I > wanted to draw, but I could not, after starting, push beyond the > fuzziness to > specificity, except in a mechanical, imitative way. (I've confessed > here > before that I was the "class artist" in high school -- with just about > zero > visually creative talent.) > > I would not protest if you insisted that what I did was not "starting" > at > all, but it felt like starting at the time.
