Should we follow rules to create Art?

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Permalink Reply by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on July 31, 2009 at 10:23am

Reply by Joseph Langen 9 hours ago

I think there are at least two sides of this interesting issue. I agree that artists should be free to express their art in any constructive manner. Breaking entirely with conventions usually means that it will be quite unfamiliar to its visitors and may not be understood until well after the artist's death. If that's the goal okay. To communicate with people through art requires at least some frame of reference for them in which to understand the art. Personally I like to at least acknowledge conventions and try to stretch peoples' imaginations at least a little.

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Permalink Reply by Byron Levene on August 2, 2009 at 10:18am

I think that knowing what 'the rules' are is important to be able to work outside 'the rules'. I think first we must be boxed in before we can break free. so to speak.

Maybe thats the coder in me talking, having to know syntax is nessisary when creating scripts, but being able to work around imposed limitations shows a true creative vein. I see that same with traditional art, somthing could be creativly brilliant without being techniclly brilliant, and vice-a-versa. but being both technically brilliant and creativly brilliant has a duality that makes it almost devine in nature--prefect.

isnt this perfection all artists seek?

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