The most often cited
fears about being an artist are 1) not making enough money to support your self or 2) your art won't make a difference.
Not exact matches
In other words,
are worship
artists pressured to write songs that will sell instead of ones that
are honest
about their doubts and
fears?
A great mix of old and new cinematic gold, this year'
s lineup includes Ildikó Enyedi'
s Berlinale Golden Bear - winner On Body and Soul; Mrs. Fang, Wang Bing'
s unflinching document of an elderly woman in her final days, which won the Golden Leopard at Locarno; the North American premiere of Katharina Wyss'
s powerful debut feature Sarah Plays a Werewolf,
about a woman who channels her
fears into theater; Govinda Van Maele'
s fiction feature debut Gutland, featuring Phantom Thread'
s Vicky Krieps; the U.
S. premiere of Slovenian director Rok Biček «
s The Family, a compassionate portrait of a young man'
s life over the course of 10 years; and experimental
artist Bertrand Mandico'
s exhilarating, gender - bending Wild Boys.
While it
's not on the level of «bomb» (or «After Earth») as I
was fearing, «Focus»
is completely underwhelming, with an average plot that
is rarely unpredictable, a big problem for a film
about con
artists.
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One of the great things
about being an
artist is that in order to
be really good, you have to live a life unruled by
fear.
OD — I
'm talking
about so many
artists I know who start out selling at one price, but when the collector asks them to lower their price, they do out of
fear that they won't sell their work.
I had an
artist friend that
was so secretive
about everything she did, she wouldn't even let me in her studio for
fear I might copy something or get an idea.
Eliminate their
fear — one of the reasons so many people fail as
artists is that they
are afraid of what their story says
about them.
In Hyperallergic, she humorously confesses her doubts &
fears while simultaneously making insightful comments
about being an
artist in today's world.
For a start, how
about teaching art history in art lessons from the point of view of the
artist, tell them Francis Bacon hung
about with the Krays, or that Caravaggio murdered someone, let them know that the stuff
about the vanishing point and composition
are tools for conveying aspects of life, death,
fear, sex - god forbid, humour - and those po faced dullards with posh voices that stand in front of great works pointing at background views of Tuscany
are no more to do with painting pictures than I
am an art historian.
It
's pride and
fear that cover the mind,» said the
artist in an interview with ARTnews in 1976,
about leaving her bright career in New York to settle to New Mexico in the late «60s.
And for most
artists without such an intellectual background, in those days they
were very dubious
about making abstractions just for
fear that they really didn't mean anything.
+ video > Varoufakis talks
about political significance of art at Moscow Biennale rt - ytb > Yanis Varoufakis at the Moscow Biennale:
Artists should
be «
feared by the powerful» tan
Along with the
artist's signature sharing of his
fears and insecurities — Jaakko
is worried
about flying, and worried
about being among people there.
Starting on 8 March, over 100 works depicting emotions such as sorrow,
fear and joy will go on show, Nationalmuseum Passions, exhibition
is all
about emotion in art The
artists represented include Dürer, Munch, Rembrandt, Tony Oursler, Rineke Dijkstra and Bill Viola.