While discovering new artists that I didn't knew before or learning more on famous ones, I ended up with a theory on artists. It is best to know the artist and his life. Why? It help understand their work, their art. Symbols are universal and personal at the same time. To decode the symbols of the artist, we must know how to interpret it.
To do so, we must know the artist on a personal level: be it his background like family and personal trauma of the past but also the period of the art too. Each piece of art have it by what had shaped it. The immediate experience that have triggered the piece of art. The symbols are not always conscious. I know that I have a lot of unconscious art under my belt. I only start to see some element of symbolism in what I do, in written form.
The process of creation it very a personal process. I like to see other artists in the act of doing, of creating in their main art. I like to see their personal twist on some techniques. Learning about an artist is becoming closer to his artwork. Acknowledging this makes me understand the peoples who study art, artists and any person that work in the creative field. It only makes me wanting to learn more on the creative process, the artists and their arts.
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