De donde vienen las ideas?

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HOW TO MAKE ART in elementary language

CREATE A SYMBOL– DRAW A SYMBOL OF SOMETHING THAT IS MEANINGFUL TO YOU

TRANSFORM = TAKE AN ART MATERIAL AND MAKE IT (TRANSFORM IT) INTO SOMETHING

VARY = TAKE AN OBJECT AND SEE HOW MANY WAYS YOU CAN CHANGE IT, ADD TO
IT, DO IT DIFFERENTLY

USE IMAGINATION = USE YOUR BRAIN TO IMAGINE A PERSON, AN ANIMAL, A
PLACE, A THING

INVENT = THINK UP SOMETHING NO ONE ELSE HAS EVER THOUGHT OF OR A
BETTER WAY TO DO SOMETHING

FRAGMENT = TAKE A PICTURE AND REDRAW ONLY A PART OF IT

METAMORPH IT = TAKE AN IDEA OR A PERSON OR AN OBJECTS AND MAKE THEM
ALIVE OR NOT ALIVE, OR IN A DIFFERENT SPACE OR IN A DIFFERENT TIME

HYBRIDIZE IT = TAKE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS OR TWO DIFFERENT IDEAS AND FUSE
THEM TOGETHER

REPEAT = TAKE AN OBJECT OR A DESIGN AND REPEAT IT OVER AND OVER

DISTORT = TAKE A PERSON OR AN OBJECT AND MAKE PART OF IT MUCH SMALLER
OR MUCH LARGER OR MUCH FATTER OR MUCH SKINNIER OR MUCH ???

FANTASIZE = USE IMAGINATION BUT ADD SOMETHING REALLY UNREALISTIC OR UNUSUAL

ANALYZE = REDO SOMETHING YOU HAVE DONE BEFORE BUT MAKE IT BETTER BY
RETHINKING IT

Developing Ideas - From Robert Genn - The Painters Key Newsletter August 6, 2004

Advice to a college student for developing her portfolio

Here are a few ideas that might give you a few ideas:

You need to do some "web-thinking." Using large sheets of paper and starting in the middle, jot down some random ideas and potential projects. Start with your current interests and add
fantasies, secret passions and ambitions. Let one idea lead to another and connect them with lines like a spider's web so they begin to "breed." Let your thoughts range from simple exploratory sets of works to complex mind-bending installations. You need clear time to take this task seriously so that the process becomes natural to you. Evolved artists habitually and actively bounce ideas between hemispheres. Natural to some, the art of yin-yanging can also be learned. Don't share with anyone. Live for a while in the embrace of your imagination, no matter how outrageous. Mind-test and envision but don't give in to early rejection. Associate freely. Anything goes.

Think about your web-thinking at night, while you dream, while putting out the cat. If you are drawing a blank, check out the cat, or the wall behind the cat. Also, think how your ideas might move people, mountains, nations. When you have several sheets filled start evaluating and modifying with a pen of a different colour. Pick out a selection of ten or more and rewrite as if you were proposing film-treatments. Make them short and punchy. If they run from the practical to the impossible, so much the better. As part of your application, present this material using the heading: "Ideas I am currently developing."

PS: "Stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places--you may find marvelous ideas." (Leonardo da Vinci)

Esoterica: Give value to your best ideas forged alone. Charles Brewer, the founder of MindSpring, said: "The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups."
What an artist does with her own web may be the most valuable exercise of her creative life. Web-thinking teaches personal creativity and individualist vision. "I suppose it is because
nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas." (Agatha Christie) Art teachers know this.
© Copyright 2004 Robert Genn (used here with permission)