The Art of Being an Artist

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HE ART OF BEING AN ARTIS philip horváth

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Slides for a talk I gave in 2012 on what it means to be an artist for a workshop on Yoga4Artists.

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THE ART OF BEING AN ARTISTphilip horvth

EVERY CHILD IS AN ARTIST. THE PROBLEM IS HOW TO REMAIN AN ARTIST ONCE WE GROW UP. - PICASSOYou cant do that!Children stop creating when they are told

The meme of the starving artist holds many people back from being creative

AT THE ONSET OF EVERY WORK, YOU MUST RECREATE YOUR PRIMAL INNOCENCE. RILKEartist?What does it mean to be an6practitionercreativealchemistcatalystartist in societyartist as:7makes artartist as:practitioner8?art9

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7 lively artsArchitectureDanceMusicDramaPoetrySculptureVisual ArtsOperaInstallation18

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7 lively artsArchitectureDanceMusicDramaPoetrySculptureVisual ArtsMulti/MixedMedia20artist as:creativebecomes god21

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created himGenesis 1:2722

as aboveso below23LIFEInputProcessOutput24

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InputProcessOutput27artist as:alchemisttransmutes Self28

Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truths, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned. William Butler Yeats29religious???30religare31ligareto bind/tie=32ligareto bind/tie=33ar-sArt/Craft=34

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The capacity to contemplate perfection of form without any kind of worldly agenda. It is the ability to connect to a higher self, one in which love, freedom or beauty, or any other absolute exists in a state of Platonic ideal. AestheticsThe capacity to connect to other viewpoints in this reality. Perceive, feel, think that which some other apparent point of perception is experiencing.Empathy36

2-fold processof Transformation37

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transform yourselftransform the world44artist as:catalystcreates culture45Artist explore beyond the boundaries of existing culture46They insert their memes into the cultural operating system47And by means of that they transform the existing culture48

It is imperative to create new visions for the world. This is what artists are called to do to fulfill their function on a planetary scale49