Monday, October 5, 2015

Copiers or Creators

I am a Christian.  I believe that God created the heavens and earth... etc.  I believe He created us to be like Him... creative.  However precious few of us have CREATED a planet or heavenly bodies of any type.  We can only copy what He has already created, add to it, subtract from it maybe, but technically as Plato says, we don't really do more that mimic what already exists.  Oh yes, we try to be original by using color and form in different ways, abstract, etc. We can add our unique voice to the narrative but it isn’t really new.  But all color and form has already existed.  We are simply reshaping it.  It has all been done before.  And somehow, I find comfort in that.  Because we can still find a unique voice even creating a copy.  Just my opinion.
Michelangelo was very focused on the creation of inspired forms, creating the best through God’s   He felt that only a true artist listening to God’s voice, guiding form and concept, will be able to make something of God, of Beauty, that is successful.  That seems very profound and very realistic.
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I must say that we all bring our own Point of View to each piece.  A group of friends and I went out to the same lake location to paint.  Several of us painted the same spot, same medium, same time of day, but each painting turned out slightly different.  We can all look at the same thing and "see" it a little differently, colored by past experience, emotional turmoil, and personal mood, adding unique brush stokes that become fingerprints.  I think that's what makes art great.  We are copying, in a sense, what already is, but each one is unique.  That is how the art experts tell a fake or forgery from an original.  And today we have DNA testing as well.  Thomas Kincaid put a drop of blood, varnished into the original, in the corner of each painting so it could be authenticated as his unique work.  If Van Gogh had known about DNA, perhaps he would have done the same thing, and there wouldn't be so many forgeries of his work floating around today.

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