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Re: everything goes back to...
I'm flattered, but I actually didn't say all this. I think Fred did.
He's much smarter than I am.
K
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:39:50 -0400 jwolp at juno_com writes:
> Kelvin said:
> > But we can still talk about degrees of originality. And, maybe
> > better, we
> > can talk about genius with a form. When an artist's character is
> > stamped
> > all over his/her work in a way that no one can emulate, really,
> > ever,
> > there's an element of genius. And if that is there, then there's
> a
> > sense in
> > which the work of that artist is totally original. But even at
> that
> > I'm
> > defining originality as something more like singularity. The work
>
> > is still
> > rooted in previous forms. Thus, perhaps Elvis's voice is
> singular.
> > And
> > perhaps the voice of Karin Bergquist is singular. And maybe we
> > could argue
> > about degrees of singularity, too. Or ways of being singular.
> > Maybe the
> > thing that makes karin special is the dignified midwestern play in
>
> > her
> > voice, or the release of a note at the top of an emotional rise.
> Or
> > somethin'.
> >>
>
> Just to add something on the idea of originality: People tend to
> look at
> artists as "creative" people -- people who make something where
> there was
> formerly nothing. I'd like to propose that perhaps there's a law of
> conservation of ideas that works like the laws of conservation of
> matter
> and energy. We are what we are and our most original ideas amount
> to
> nothing more than a more obsure recombination or synthesis of old
> ideas.
>
> Also, the fundamental point of most art, in my opinion, is to relate
> to
> the human experience. To create something that elicits a certain
> emotion/reaction from people. Something in the theoretical realm of
>
> being "completely original" would not do that because it would be so
> far
> removed from everything that everyone (even the artist) has ever
> experienced.
>
> Am I being obtuse? Sorry, just a couple thoughts...
>
> Jon
>
> Oh yeah: I've never been to England, but I kind of like the
> Beatles, too
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