{"id":149098,"date":"2019-06-14T21:10:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T04:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=149098"},"modified":"2019-06-14T21:56:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T04:56:51","slug":"the-upside-of-artistic-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/14\/the-upside-of-artistic-ignorance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Upside of Artistic Ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Upside of Artistic Ignorance\" width=\"1180\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6qa_UvmxBcs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is it that children are so artistically creative, innovative, and productive? Their \u00e2\u20ac\u0153tabula rasa\u00e2\u20ac\u009d approach to life and artistic creation. Because they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have any prior knowledge of the history of art, they can create without constraint, self-judgement, or insecurity!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Too much knowledge of the past is suffocating<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I believe that history should be used as a positive motivation and stimulus to us today\u00e2\u20ac\u201d to motivate us to create new artworks today, and well into the future!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The problem with lots of artists and individuals who know too much about history and art history is that they get discouraged. They think to themselves:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What is the point of me attempting to create new art works. I will never be as great as X, Y, or Z\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is where history can become pessimistic and disempowering \u00e2\u20ac\u201d when we feel the weight of the past upon us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead, the past and great individuals from the past should be our positive role models, our motivations, and our inspirations! We should look at them as our mentors and guides who encourage us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Just because someone else has done it before doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mean you shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t try it yourself!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Almost everything has been photographed before. The purpose of pursuing a photo project isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t to try to document something which is totally unique and hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been done before. It is to take common and simple topics, and for us fo attempt to do it in a great manner!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are timeless things to photograph and document like family, society, landscape, nature, the streets, etc. We should be like the ancient Greeks \u00e2\u20ac\u201d they never got tired of pursuing the same few simple ideas. But what the Ancient Greek artists and poets tried to do was to simply do it better than their peers, or to simply do it for the sake of attempting to create great artwork to impress themselves, and to seek immortality amongst future mortals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For us, our poison is too much information. Most of the information out there doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t encourage us, it discourages us. In fact, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve become more artistically, philosophically, and creatively productive after I stopped using social media, reading the news, and reading blogs and websites. My great motivators are individuals from the past \u00e2\u20ac\u201d like Nietzshe, Steve Jobs, Homer, Matisse, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So friend \u00e2\u20ac\u201d feel free to delight yourself in being ignorant of the past. If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re curious of learning from the masters of the past, go for it! Just don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel pressured that you&nbsp;<em>must<\/em>&nbsp;study the masters from the past. Let your own personal research happen organically, based on your own personal curiosity and personal interests.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are no \u00e2\u20ac\u0153should\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153musts\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in art. Only personal desire, curiosity, and interest!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MAKE ON! ERIC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it that children are so artistically creative, innovative, and productive? Their \u00e2\u20ac\u0153tabula rasa\u00e2\u20ac\u009d approach to life and artistic creation. 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