The Extract from First Discourse of art was enjoyable for me to read. It is an interesting topic about the importance of knowledge and having spacious mind. It made to think more about the school role in art.
Joshua Reynolds, the creator of text has told 4 main ideas (at least that may I’ve found for myself) in the extract I’ve been given.
That’s true and I am mostly agreed with mentioned topics. But the wheel reinventing makes me thinking of a question I’ve been curious for last years. What is the fine line between giving knowledge of art, and forcing minds to choose one of the ways was made?
I mean at which moment teaching of technique, perspective and anatomy becomes not giving knowledge but the originality prevention. How much of freedom should be given to artist to make him know something, and still giving him a chance to save his own vision? Maybe this question is really closer to me, because of experience in schools saying you there is only one way to be good in something. It makes no sense, especially in art.
If Joshua Reynolds asks “How many talent was wasted in having only one position in art” or “How many talent was lost in searching for information” then the questions I have sounds like “How many originality was lost with being forced to one position in art” and “How many originality was wasted in having information”.
Of course being original has another side: creating new is mixing different old. So having no space in art knowledge you have no ability to create new. So of course it is almost impossible to be original having only one piece of knowledge.
But is there is space for pure originality? Or it would always be the wheel reinventing?
Anyway it just some of thoughts I’ve been reminded of by reading the extract. And some of questions I wouldn't be ready to answer yet. But even so it is great to have something to think about, and to read something you agreed with, being in the place discussed in text.
Joshua Reynolds, the creator of text has told 4 main ideas (at least that may I’ve found for myself) in the extract I’ve been given.
- The advantage of an academy is having all the knowledge of forbears in one place, so the artist should spend no time for searching.
- Having no knowledge and making art is a waste of talent and reinventing the wheel.
- Artist must have as many knowledge he could. So he has the ability to choose. As my parents used to say: Don’t beware of the person who read thousands of books, beware of the person who read only one, because it is the only point of view he knows and believes in.
- Having all art in one place also means having all artists interested in it in one place too. And the writer says it is better to study something from a person in your age. So that is side advantage of a school of art.
That’s true and I am mostly agreed with mentioned topics. But the wheel reinventing makes me thinking of a question I’ve been curious for last years. What is the fine line between giving knowledge of art, and forcing minds to choose one of the ways was made?
I mean at which moment teaching of technique, perspective and anatomy becomes not giving knowledge but the originality prevention. How much of freedom should be given to artist to make him know something, and still giving him a chance to save his own vision? Maybe this question is really closer to me, because of experience in schools saying you there is only one way to be good in something. It makes no sense, especially in art.
If Joshua Reynolds asks “How many talent was wasted in having only one position in art” or “How many talent was lost in searching for information” then the questions I have sounds like “How many originality was lost with being forced to one position in art” and “How many originality was wasted in having information”.
Of course being original has another side: creating new is mixing different old. So having no space in art knowledge you have no ability to create new. So of course it is almost impossible to be original having only one piece of knowledge.
But is there is space for pure originality? Or it would always be the wheel reinventing?
Anyway it just some of thoughts I’ve been reminded of by reading the extract. And some of questions I wouldn't be ready to answer yet. But even so it is great to have something to think about, and to read something you agreed with, being in the place discussed in text.
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