The artist strives for creative growth and development. Exploration of new genres and media can create disconnects with essential artistic values. Discovering ways to blend personal creative priorities into new forms smooths the path for artistic growth and offers the best hope for ongoing positive audience recognition.
Balancing Artistic Values With Artistic Growth By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Dan_E_Goldstein]Dan E Goldstein
By nature, the creative personality strives to evolve, to expand into new mediums and genres. And by nature, also, the creative personality seeks recognition and acknowledgment by peers and the public. Here is a new work that cannot be ignored! There is some potential for disconnect between these two aspects. Striving for artistic growth may not maximize the artist’s chances for positive recognition.
Even as the artist stretches into new realms, explores new techniques, opens to new genres, she must remain sensitive, responsive and true to her personal sensibilities. Her creative soul grew and was nurtured by formative experiences in the early years. For most artists these experiences revolved around some key teacher or teachers. Our teachers passed on traditions and values to us. We received these traditions and values and they established our creative foundations. Some of us received in the studios, some of us on the streets.
When we get stuck in projects, or when we discover that our new work is not having the hoped for impact on fans, there might be some benefit in revisiting what is fundamental to our creative souls, our creative vision. Perhaps a composer is branching into a more loop driven, electronic genre. He is listening to a lot of house, euro, trance, and dubstep. He builds loops which reflect the recent influences but can’t seem to move compositions along, or end results just don’t come to standard. Perhaps our struggling composer has temporarily forgotten that he spent 25 years of his life struggling to achieve an ideal sound on an acoustic instrument and to deliver a beautiful, sustained line. These traditional notions of sonic beauty and classical line are not necessarily at the top of the electronica genre priority list. But some magic may occur when the classically grounded musician applies her traditional notions of beauty and line to the new style. Now she has stretched her creative soul into a new space. She has reaffirmed her own essential artistic values even as she embraces new, less familiar forms.
The pressure to create in genres which are current, which have some popular following, is a good thing. It keeps art out of ivory towers. And most artists are not satisfied to work in a vacuum. We want to share, to recognize and be recognized. These pressures to stay current and achieve recognition can disengage us temporarily from our creative foundations. These are the very foundations which truly give us a chance to succeed in new genres and to win acclaim by synthesizing something new and something old in a way never done before.
Stay true to yourself as you expand your horizons. What makes your work unique and great and powerful is your synthesis of what is you with what is new.
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