“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
Pablo Picasso.
Pablo Picasso is well know for ‘breaking the rules’ in the art world – Many of his pieces were contriversial at the time. I am quite interested in the concepts behind his work as I have been exploring working within set ‘rules’ and how working like this while allowing room for freedom can be beneficial for creativity.
https://paintingdemos.com/breaking-the-rules/
Picasso’s work broke fundamental aspects of art in his work – although not too suprising to look at now, it was highly contriversial at the time of creation. Picasso broke the rules of perspective and depth – the image on the right makes use of his dual perspective technique, where two different perspectives are portrayed in the same object.
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Reading – Creativity: When East Meets West
By Sing Lau, Anna H. H. Hui, Grace Y. C. Ng
Chapter 11 – Blue apples and purple oranges: When children paint like picasso
“At that age I could draw like Raphael … It took me years to learn to draw like these children.”
Pablo Picasso
This reading in exploring the inherent spontanious creativity that children natually possess. It is observed that children are creative, in a unique way which is desired by artists.
“Many prominent artists, including Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso,
Fineberg (1995)
and Joan Miro have been intensely interested in the art of children —
collecting it, exhibiting it (some times along their own work), and most
important of all, taking specific formal cues from it.”
There are similarities in the qualities and feel of children’s drawings to that off my exploration within the project – whether through scribble drawings or AI generated/interpreted drawings.
In this sense the crude coding program I have been using to generate imagery could be compared to an uneducated child’s mind – It has yet to be filled with influence, direction, rules etc…
While this means the drawings often lack direction and dont follow the ‘rules’, they are raw and creative – unique. It is clear that many famous artists believe there is great power in working like a child.
Just I have considered that AI might allow us to tap into the potential of the subconscious imagination potential seen by the surrealists – could it also allow access to the crude, primitive child-like creativity we all possess at heart, possibily hidden under layers of influence and rules?
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