To read Part I, click here: http://www.gregmasonburns.com/blog/art-and-productivity
This painting took time to realize In the first part of this series I mentioned how the artist can never shut off the artistic process and that he or she is just as productive as the normal corporate worker, if not more so. In Part II I'll talk about the real reason why the starving artist exists.
There is this myth that the starving artist exists because suffering creates great art. There may be some truth to this. It is generally considered to be true that Gabriel García Márquez used the last of his savings to send his final copy of 100 Years of Solitude to the publisher who helped bring him the fame that won him the Nobel Prize. There may be a connection between Márquez's poverty and brilliance because, as some would say, his poverty required him to produce results. Maybe poverty really does produce greatness at times, but I think on average this is just as I noted above, a myth. It wasn't Márquez's poverty that created greatness, but a societal misunderstanding of how an artist works that created his poverty. His genius was inside him the whole time. To suggest otherwise is both an insult to him and gives way to much credit to those who never rise out of poverty.
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There is this myth that the starving artist exists because suffering creates great art. There may be some truth to this. It is generally considered to be true that Gabriel García Márquez used the last of his savings to send his final copy of 100 Years of Solitude to the publisher who helped bring him the fame that won him the Nobel Prize. There may be a connection between Márquez's poverty and brilliance because, as some would say, his poverty required him to produce results. Maybe poverty really does produce greatness at times, but I think on average this is just as I noted above, a myth. It wasn't Márquez's poverty that created greatness, but a societal misunderstanding of how an artist works that created his poverty. His genius was inside him the whole time. To suggest otherwise is both an insult to him and gives way to much credit to those who never rise out of poverty.
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