10 acclaimed artists give advice to the young
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”Let your imagination always have your respect.” Ten of the world’s most renowned artists share their best advice with aspiring artists.
"Knowing what you're doing is over-rated" That's true about most everything in the creative process. A story goes about an English band in the late sixties that got their name when one member asked what they should call themselves. Another answered "Doesn't matter, this will go over like a Led Zeppelin".
“I think that people are too concerned about not making mistakes, being right.” Jessica Stockholder emphasise the importance of focusing on the process rather than the final result. The late artist Pope L. shares the same view: “Knowing what you’re doing is overrated,” he says.
George Condo and Michael Simpson, both painters, stress that you shouldn’t look away from the history of art, but instead get to know it. “Don’t sit in isolation and think you know. Go to the experience,” says Shirazeh Houshiary.
Doing without knowing or asking—without even being aware of what, who, when, or why. Doing is simply being in the making ❤
The video also features Phyllida Barlow (1944-2023), Laurie Anderson, Not Vital, David Shrigley and Rachel Whiteread.
Interviews: Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen, Marc-Christoph Wagner, Kasper Bech Dyg, Christian Lund
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Cameras: Rasmus Quistgaard, Kyle Stevenson, Sean Hanley, Jakob Solbakken, and Simon Weyhe.
Produced and edited by: Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen
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I don't know what I am doing as an artist, I scrambled up the conventional "blueprint" and threw it behind me and now I'm embarking on this path blindly. I feel comfortable in my blindness though, because then I can actually experience this path that's unique to me!
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Modern art is trash. So I don’t give a fine fck what they have to say.
@marbleking1307This is why gen AI will never, ever hold a candle to real human art.
@otterpoppin“If you have trouble drawing a straight line, you can draw the wiggly ones”
This is truly such a simple but phenominal piece of advice, follow what comes naturally 😊🙌
Very well done, appreciate this video!
@aarionjumpathank you for this video :)
@nnightsongAwesome video, looking forward to the next one!
@BenittaBenitta-n3vYour videos are always so helpful, thank you!
@KolsonLorenzo01:18 best advice
@ceaelzaGreat job, this video was very useful!
@RunondioSunomsoLove all of the female artists advice, dont know what most of the male artists mean to convey.
@ducky_urban“Don’t isolate - Go to the experience” was big
@MichaelRourke-u4rThanks for this interesting and inspiring video. I’ll be making art today. 🌻
@ellenlongartWhere should someone who is 43 start? The only artistic thing I know I like is party planning. I love creating around the theme. But I can feel my soul wanting to connect to the other side of my brain. The creative side. I like to write as well! So do I try poetry? I feel like art is so broad. How can I know what I might love, if I don't even know what's out there? 🤔💜
@roxannerodriguez7075Very well done, appreciate this video!
@smwerfjsykjhgbsdfYour videos grounds me, especially on the days I’m fully integrated with social media and restlessly scrolling.
@xoxoLiveloveLaughxoOh look, they graciously included one token Black person in this group. Are you kidding me????!!
@natalie_kendelIm a “young” artist from Lafayette Louisiana thank you
@jordanfoster1319This is like watching theologians discussing the finer points of the Trinity.
@justinleemillerThank you!
@elisabethrice-taqieddin6361🎉🎉
@Hate-hf7qylovely thank you <3
@KateBrunotts"Don't sick back and think that you know. Don't let your mind control you. Go for experience."
@EvrardEyeneYeah imma save this for 4am to crash out to thank you Louise Anna chicken
@slimsoymilkJust being in the world that's all there is to it, even if you're not an artist
@onlytruth5071Great words of advice from so many different experiences! Also.. the shot of Laurie outside is so beautiful with the lake sparkling behind her and the sunshine against her. Amazing video overall, thank you!!
@Mr.Bear.ArtistIf you want actual good advice for young artists, just read "Letters to a Young Poet" by Rilke (do yourself the favor)
@FerSosar2001You're never going to find the answers that you are looking for, and if you do you have failed. All you will ever find is more questions.
@sturdeehouse"The artwork is the residue of a process."
@LostRemote542"If you have trouble drawing a straight line, you can enjoy the wiggly ones" 🙌🏽
@deezermusic1640Great: 'Knowing what you are doing is overrated'.
@JPeck-kr8kmMost modern art substitutes weird for quality, narrow isms for scope, and trendy for depth. It also refuses to change or even talk about progressive ideas in art like those that follow
Too many treat art as a marketing scheme. Modern art has become a trendy clique and the art now is mostly over promoted footnotes to greater art that was done 100 years ago. But art is too important to be reduced to a trendy clique.
Post-ism, is art for a new century, not a continuation of last century trends.
1 Mass Market Paintings like Prints. When any art form is mass marketed it enters a golden age. This has happened with books, records, and film. Let's add paintings. Most art is in storage in museum basements. Mass Marketing allows art to tour in copies and allows artists to make royalties on copies.
Why do you think the world gets so excited about a new great book, record, or film; but no one cares about a new great painting? All are mass produced except the painting.
2. End a Century of Isms. Dump the genres and formulas and let all kinds of art be a part of the art world.
3. Shift Emphasis From Trendy to Quality. Shift emphasis from the latest trendy art, to quality art in any style. Just because art is weird does not mean it is great art.
4. Free the Art From Museums and Galleries. Get the art out of the ivory elitist museum and gallery towers and back into the world. Have city art centers open to all artists. Make art that is relevant and communicates with people. Start with the first generation of artists online.
5. Postism is Part of a Bigger Revolution. Postism is part of the bigger art and media revolution out of Dallas, that includes art, music, lit, film, media, and a lot more.
6. Postism online: Online artists are the new wave of art. We had all the isms of last century. Now we have a free for all, of all kinds of artists, that are not sanctioned by any museum or gallery, displaying their work. Out of that comes the next wave and revolution of artists.
Last century the goal was to fit the ism. This century the goal is to do great art – no ism, no boundaries. Fractionalized art then, synchronized art now. Even calling something modern art is a type of ism that separates that art from the art of the past.
The 20th century was a century of experimentation in art. Now in the 21st we can choose from all those styles and / or start one of our own.
Then too if someone devises a way to charge and collect a penny per view on a webpage, that would allow any great artist to get money for their art and have a career without any middlemen.
Duchamp broke ground 100 years ago - but now his clones are just shoveling dirt. Weird art is easy, you put a strip of raw bacon across an expensive violin, but it's not good art.
Join the art revolution and pull the art world out of last century.
Musea since 1992.
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@raggiodeliaSo there are no renowned Black artists that could have been included in this segment???
Yes, Black artists have great advice to contribute based on very different creative cultural perspectives.
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Seriously? Advice from artists who work in mega-galleries? People must be incredibly stupid to listen to these people...
@Rafanon-verbalThank you...I needed this!!
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