The Artist And The Work - 958 Words

â€Å"Everything you can imagine is real.† There are many visual artists, composers and writers we could pass on the street and never recognize them. Yet we are still curious. There is something about artmaking that draws us to it but it seems so foreign to our own lives. We want to know more about these seemingly special people who can accomplish these unique things. We can t help but conflate the two. The artist and the work. Well, to some extent, an artist s work is always about the artist. How can it be otherwise, since they have no other source but themselves? When we look or hear art, we only see and hear artist, because that is all we can see it s all we have to work with. The problem with art is, because we love it so much, we put the artists who created it on pedestals and we believe they cannot fail because, in some corner of our mind, we’ve formed a relationship with them and their product, and for us to discover them as imperfect shatters the illusion. 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