Art: Inborn or Learned? What do you think?
By Unah08
@Unah08 (671)
Philippines
December 6, 2008 1:32am CST
Are you an ARTIST? May it be in the visual field, performing arts, literature, or in the industry? Are your artistic prowess INBORN, I mean are you really gifted with it when you were born. Do you really have that longing interest in arts, that even before you learn to walk or talk perhaps you were already holding that pencil or paintbrushes in your hand ready to slide on that canvass or wiggle your body to a song you have heard or humming a tune maybe? Are these longing naturally put out the best in your personality that is reflected in your artwork? Or perhaps that artistic ability of yours is LEARNED, acquired in some sort of way. Did you attend art lesson or any related classes concerning the different fields of arts? Are your interest influenced by other people, events, situation, or any force that you did think its worth a try? If you ask me, mine is acquired. I was influenced by my twin sister who was fond of drawing stuffs when we were just little kids. From then on my interest in any form of arts is increasing day by day, and my skills are developing, though I have to practice more often cause I have the tendency to run out of ideas and my skills to gradually diminish if I stop to apply it in any possible way I can. How about you, are you naturally born artist or you're thankful that you gave art a chance to be one of your special skills? I want to here from you...
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4 responses
@gjabaigar (2200)
• Philippines
6 Dec 08
Everyone of us is an artist but not everybody knows it. Even a damned can be an artist and become famous...And if anybody knows what is really art then everything around is an art....And learning art they are just for liberals...So if you want to learn and know art you don't have to....just have feeling.
@steelwater (132)
• Philippines
28 Jan 09
the earliest i remember that i wanted to draw was when i first saw my classmate drawing in kindergarten and he was good at it, that guy was born with a pencil on his hand hehehe but as for me, i just started sketching and drawing from then on, i do not really call what i do as art but more of a very personal hobby, so i guess art is inborn like what my friend has :)
@Porcospino (31365)
• Denmark
21 Dec 08
I think that art is partly inborn and partly learned. In own life I think that quite a lot of it is inborn, but the rest is learned. I play the piano. I have taken lessons and I have learned to play the piano, but I am able to play by ear, too. Nobody would have been able to teach me that, my hands are just moving and I don't really know what is happening, I just let them play. When I play the piano I combine both things.
The same thing goes for my writing and my paintings. I mostly use my intuition to paint (I let my hands paint without thinking much about it), but I combine it with the things I have learned about colours etc. I have also learned sonething about writing. I have learned something about words, sentences, rhymes etc, but when I am writing don't think much about those things, I just let the words come.
@crimsonladybug (3112)
• United States
6 Dec 08
I think, for the most part, a person can be taught and can practice technique. Whether it be learning to draw from a book or learning to play guitar from Esteban, technique, the actual act of creating the art, can be taught. But passion, vision, that special way of looking at the world, that cannot be taught. Writers, for example, look at every person walking down the street as a potential character. We sit in public places and make a game of theorizing strangers' life stories.
Photographers see the world through the lens of their camera, even when they don't have it in hand. They see the potential of every flower, every rock, every sunset, for creating something people will want to look at for more than just the split second it exists as the light is hitting the petals just so.
Artists look at the world from a totally different perspective than the mathematician taking a pottery class at the community college and that perspective, unlike a drawing technique, cannot be forced.
