Has It All Been Done Before?

This question gets done about every ten years...

Hi Marilyn;

I guess whenever I hear this sort of pronouncement, I think back to the end of the 19th Century, when the general professional opinion was that physics was supposedly coming to an end, and everything worth discovering in physics was supposedly known, and all that remained was engineering.

And physics is a whole lot simpler than art

Cheers;

Chris

My stock answer to that question is:

NOT BY ME!

+ +>What about it, has it all been done before? +> +>MW + +My stock answer to that question is: + +NOT BY ME!

And there's a lot of people who haven't had the opportunity to see or buy it before either. So who cares what's been 'done before'? Unless you're sole aim is to slavishly make 'exact' copies of old works, then what you do will be unique.

The drive to be completely different is what has driven art schoolds to be point of absolute worthlessness for anyone with any amount of skill or talent.

One lady I know attended Art College for three years and had hoped at some point to be told the fundamentals - like how to mix colours, the differences between media and so on. The only thing she really learnt however was that attempts to produce any sort of realistic art would almost certainly annoy the lecturer to the point where he would throw the piece on the floor and jump on it. Personally i would have pursued a case based on 'Cruel and unusual punishment' or 'Destruction of personal property' - but that's a separate issue.

Let's face it, naive scrawls were produced by cavepersons yet are still promoted as 'great art' when produced by one of today's so-called 'artists'.

Andy D.

'I'm a great speller - but a hopless tpyist!'

it's all been done before, but that shouldn't be uppermost in your mind.