Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

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Well, came grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group being graded for quantity. Sacha Golob is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at King’s College London and the Director of the Centre for Philosophy and the Visual Arts; before joining King’s, he was a Fellow at Peterhouse, Cambridge. For many people, that alone is enough to prevent their ever getting started at all -- and for those who do, trouble isn't long in coming.

It is somewhat encouraging to have evidence that other artists have dealt with the very same setbacks, that the nature of the contemporary art world indeed cultivates unstable and broken-up sense of identity in most art-workers. The two authors refer to "art" in such a flimsy pretext that they not only fail to define it, they change the implied definition to suit whatever point is being made but then mix the definitions in chains of clumsy logic (sometimes to the fine art business, other times to any creative expression, other times to a limited set of work that is non-reproducible). Looked at this way, there isn’t much about an artist’s life to be enjoyed; rather, it’s just a dilemma-filled endurance test!X-rays of famous paintings reveal that even master artists sometimes made basic mid-course corrections (or deleted really dumb mistakes) by overpainting the still-wet canvas. I ask for my friends’ opinions on my artwork because I know that they will tell me honestly if they think that my artwork needs something. According to mythology, Saturn ate each of his children in fear that one of them would overthrow him. New identities were forged in a spirit of resistance towards conventional values, from the 1960s countercultural movement to the punk era of the 1970s.

At this time, families were traditionally patriarchal and the father largely controlled the lives of his wife and daughters.

você se mete a pensar em ideias e possibilidades, e de repente passou uma página inteira e você já não lembra o que leu (estava lendo? Or Dave Eggers’s 2013 novel The Circle, in which he satirises the totalitarian consequences of a Google-inspired technocracy that peddles the ideal of sharing one’s entire life by ‘going transparent’. It is still challenging for some clients to try to think and express themselves through the art, no matter what directive you give them. For an artist, the book is captivating in parts, especially in the beginning as it concerns execution and vision, and a discussion of common fears in the art making process -- excellent insights.