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cacian
05-08-2013, 10:04 AM
according to Louise Bourgeois a leading sculptor of the 20th century
''an artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing''
to what extent is this true?

what I can't say or of think of orally I usually tend to write about the reason being is that the opportunity has not presented itself for me to say it in the way I say it in writing.
fear however never crossed my mind and so this made me think the following:

does fear shape our everyday self and therefore how we express ourselves artistically and literally is because of it?
and if so literature and the arts in general reflect it rather evase it. In other words one is not ridding oneself from fear but instead one is inculcated by it.
we learn unconsciously and therefore learn to fear something when we could have simply taken to it openly and in spoken.
rationality however has a place in history and also literature. one must rationalise when one writes in order to get fear out of the way.
the other point is that one can read and write so much and yet speaking is not as in engaged as in the last two skills. the fear of speaking out is overtaken by the art and literature itself.

cafolini
05-08-2013, 11:16 AM
Agree. Any reason is fundamentally a rationalization, and as such it is best to rationalize by will and no other motive beyond positive outcome.

stlukesguild
05-08-2013, 06:30 PM
according to Louise Bourgeois a leading sculptor of the 20th century
''an artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing''
to what extent is this true?

what I can't say or of think of orally I usually tend to write about the reason being is that the opportunity has not presented itself for me to say it in the way I say it in writing.
fear however never crossed my mind and so this made me think the following:

does fear shape our everyday self and therefore how we express ourselves artistically and literally is because of it?

Artists are free to express feelings and ideas through art that we tend to suppress in polite society: hatred, anger, avarice, jealousy, lust, and every other imaginable inappropriate desire.

mona amon
05-08-2013, 11:16 PM
''an artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing''
to what extent is this true?

I don't agree with him. Some people are afraid of expressing certain things and others are not, and that's nothing to do with art. I'd say artists are those with the ability to express things that others cannot, or the ability to express things in a much better way than others.

cafolini
05-09-2013, 12:26 AM
I don't agree with him. Some people are afraid of expressing certain things and others are not, and that's nothing to do with art. I'd say artists are those with the ability to express things that others cannot, or the ability to express things in a much better way than others.

I would have to agree with that.