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Some of us on the forum express feelings of frustrations with their work when it is towards an exhibition or other.I cannot imagine being otherwise.Even after painting for 27 years when I am handing a completed painting to a client I am a bag of nerves until they tell me that they are happy with it.How are you doing ? got the same problem ?
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Especially In this age of media, internet communications etc., are there any original thoughts or ways of thinking left? Nothing new under the sun? Nothing new to discover?
There is a surfeit of information available to those who seek it, and was it not our aim as teachers, to facilitate pupils' ability to look for and find facts for themselves? Perhaps scientists are the only ones who look for new ways of living and putting forward new theories........looking for solutions and truth through the proving of them via experiments. Artists (not all though) experiment all the time and nothing is fixed or absolute.
But no, I don't think personally that thoughts and knowledge are now only a www. commodity...You can learn how to look after a pet rabbit or most animals by observation of their needs...the difference between learning that way instead of going to a website or a book for information is that while you are doing that, the poor rabbit turns his toes up or the baby birds choke because you have put out whole peanuts during the rearing season.
Or have I gone completely off track?
Must have another glass of that cold clear water, I feel a new woman, Mel.
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Hi Mel,
There was a contemporary artist who came to our local oriel gallery a couple of years ago. She had an installation with spirals of stainless steel rings to which were attached mirrors and coloured glass and poreclain figurines whose heads she'd masked with crocheted covers. It was representing the virtual reality of the web.
What you see and perceive depends on the angle that you are looking from. You can see part of reality and yet it is veiled so you can never know the whole truth. I have to say the veracity of this has been borne out to me since. I don't think knowledge, art and especially not thought are commodities of the web.
I'm not sure where plagarism comes into the above, except that the web has made it far easier for a certain element to perpetrate; I don't think everyone's interested in such dronelike behaviour. For one thing, it's bad for self-estime and it's boring for the plagiarists, themselves.
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Hi Phil
I would say it is very hard to have an original idea, but i guess sometimes it does happen (!) Or in surfing the web you may see alot of things that inspire you and in turn you make an orignial idea from that. but is that original.???? not sure if that makes sense. B-) But i would say that no one would see the same things and be inspired inthe same way????????????
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"Two of the artists Blogs said the same things in the same order...but I remembered it. It was exactly as I found it a long time ago, in Wikipedia"...
That is what really annoyed me the most...practically a simple cut and paste from the much earlier Wikipedia entry on 'Inspiration in art' with only a few words in six paragraphs changed...being passed off as their original & latest erudite thoughts on the subject...
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Never nick (Sylvia) anyone else's thoughts that have been written down it's plagiarism black and white and it's illegal...as an historian I actually have been witness to someone being expelled from university for plucking an essay from the Internet and they would be hard placed to gain entry into any other university...they obviously doubted the knowledge of our professors...although when writing we use other more learned peoples works but always recognise them by footnoting and bibliography...for me when I paint an exercise I would never take the credit for the thought that went into that image, I always describe any such work as an exercise and give the author the credit...I think as humans we are capable of original thought just look at the subjects which are discussed here on this forum, wonderful isn't it