On 2011-02-02 02:03 , Larry Colen wrote:
The replies to this question were interesting, and enlightening. My father used to say that if buildings were built the way programs were written, the first termite that came along would destroy civilization. Judging by this list, photographers make programmers look like the very paragon of forethought. I wonder how many other artists start out their works with so little planning. Do painters think "I just got this tube of really pretty green, I think I'll paint a forest"?
i think it varies quite a bit with artists, but many do improvisational sketches to work up ideas, then they choose the best ideas for further work; i think this has direct parallels in photography practice
and i personally know a couple of painters who spend hours, even weeks, covering up the first things they put on canvas with very different other things in an evolutionary process that is not at all planned from the start (this approach is not so easy to parallel in photography)
and consider music, which i think shows the breadth of how planned or unplanned good art can be
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