Trust Your Own Taste, but We Paint for Others - artist advice
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- In this video I discuss the importance of following your own taste only, but also I discuss how I find purpose in my art by painting for others.
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I was in 9th grade and toke part in my first ART exhibition. I painted a full size copy of Édouard Manet's "The Fifer" my art teacher stood in front of the painting and said BEAUTIFUL. Even then all I could see was the mistake. Today after 46 years I still have the painting. I look at it and think; Not bad for a 14 year old boy and than I look at the mistake.
I enjoy your videos, Thank you for creating this channel.
Very true. I also struggle with trusting myself which brings indecisiveness which is also a curse. I decided to paint how I feel or what I feel about the subject. Easier said than done.
Great advice! I paint how I paint is what I tell myself. I know some will like my work, and others won’t. I don’t really care though.
Exactly! Ditto 😊
Always good sound advice. Thank you Mark.
Best content about art. It's a shame not to find people with such good conversation to sit down, have a coffee and talk. Congratulations.
greetings from Brazil.
Melhor conteúdo sobre arte. Uma pena não encontrar pessoas com essa boa conversa para sentar, tomar um café e conversar. Parabéns.
saudações do Brasil.
When I started my art journey I had absolutely no idea what I was doing but I had so much fun and my friends loved my art! THEN I took an art class and all I heard was I’m doing this or that wrong and that gave me a lot of self doubt .
In our modern society, art is about connection, not a gate-kept hierarchy of acheivement like it used to be when the world was less connected. Connecting with yourself is painting in a way that is “so much fun” etc. connecting with others involves finding buyers who, like your friends, think your art is great. That’s it. Make art and make money - be happy! Forget about anything else.
Thank you for sharing your experience. It was very helpful to me. (I started painting again now I'm retired. The last time I really painted was 40 years ago.)
Merton - "No man is an island". But if we as artists do not tease up the viewer and elevate them beyond their own limited vision through our natural skill for seeing life as magnificent, pregnant and full of possibilities, we are nothing more than decorators and cameras. We deny our audience our insight and gift. If we do that, we may as well scrub dishes. The key I have found is to constantly send out trial balloons and observe what pulls out that magic inside the viewer, but to never emulate the viewer's vision. All artists die in the water when they do that. We all know, after decades of being in the game - the horrific result of 'commissions' where we do the bidding of the viewer. So be careful.
Most painful experience I have ever endured was a commission...and I had a lacerated kidney once.
@@togglebutton3312 What a wonderful reply. I love your sense of humour!
Thank you for this advice !
Just because your painting winds up on someone's wall, doesn't mean you painted it for that person. You painted it because it sprang from your own inspiration and motivation. The only exception is a commissioned work.
I am a semi pro sculptor potter painter. Yes it is nice to think that people own your art. Also it is true i don't do what people want.this is why I rarely do commission unless we agree of the outcome.
Great advice Mark! Thank you.
Very helpful as usual 😊
would have loved to have Mark as a mentor from a young age. if only.
A few months ago you said you would release a unique palette box that kept paints usable for days. When is that coming out?
I wish you still sold the color checker. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Fairly easy to make with polymer clay
That color checker has been essential to me
As a matter of fact I just finished redesigning it today. The old one was very expensive to make, the new one will be much easy to produce, so we will be able to sell it for less. Should be available in a couple months or so.
@@DrawMixPaint Would you be planning on producing the long lasting palette boxes for sale at all? I kind of made my own, but I am still pretty curious about those.
RESPECTED SIR 🙏 AS USUAL YOUR VALUBLE INSIGHTS AND ADVISE IS A VISUAL TREAT NEVER WOULD LIKE TO MISS UR VIDEO'S
My Heart doesn’t know what i want to or like to paint or draw and doesn’t care what I think - I die from the shoulders up - it’s hand spirit coordination not hand eye - I have achieved photo realism with my system - technique takes care of itself by way of repetitive application - ART, is such a nebulous word
Makes a lot of sense
Thank you
Thank you!
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Man you so smart..
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Great advice as ever Mark... wish I had known this a long time ago as it makes perfect sense to me after all these years...
What's the cover video name? Author ? It's amazing that lady with red hat. You channel too it's awsesome Mark, congratulations from Madrid, Spain, Velazquez's homeland.
I think it may be an AI image
It's AI, midjourney always generates the same faces
Is there a way to place highlights?
A very sad comment on having painting/photography on walls; When you see inside peoples' homes all the wall are bares with nothing on them.
Wouldn't they feel better in a well appointed room? Usually a TV and nothing else can be seen!
It’s like Jay-Z said: people come to Chinese restaurants for Chinese food
Now that the Luddite wackos have left, can the adults have conversations now.....?
But anyway, as I heard a songwriter say once, "the only thing you can know 100 percent for sure is what you like..."
How can you know 100% what you like if you haven't seen or heard everything yet? When Madonna first appeared on the scene I didn't like her music, but ten years later I was listening to some of her songs. Then ten years later I didn't like her music as much. So I knew what I didn't like, then I knew what I liked, then I knew what I didn't like again...who's to say what I will like ten years from now.
look we have an AI "artist" here
@@quietbirt LOL...I've been painting in oils since you were still in diapers. I painted today as a matter of fact.
@@togglebutton3312 that's great, I believe you. My reply was actually to the anti-luddite warrior above.
how is an american painting, appreciated by the world!!!the plasticity!
I do not recommend anyone follow this advice.