Creative Artists

About „Artists“

Almost everyone begins life as one, as we have to conclude that the desire to create comes before the decision of what to create. Any observer of children past age 2 can see the universal activity of drawing leading into understanding of form and the world around the child, and later into the understanding and use of symbols and abstract elements which are the basis of art, language, writing, and other social activity. Unfortunately, the almost universal desire of the adolescent child to represent the world around them more and more "realistically" takes hold, and when the raw talent level does not respond to this misguided quest, the young artist often gives up the development of their own personal pictorial language entirely.

It would be naive to believe that everyone has the energy, desire, confidence or focus to express themselves artistically. It is impractical to guide every student to consider a career in the visual arts. Hard work and the desire to master one's basic gift have to be grafted seamlessly into the pursuit of both educational and professional objectives. Personal vision in art, most importantly, should not be neglected. The users of this site should know there are many avenues in our educational and professional markets for the expression of creativity in art as part of any student's individual growth and future career decisions.

Pursuing a career in art is certainly a challenge for all students, but in a world society that depends on imagination and communication in almost any field, no one should be discouraged from pursuing their personal visions. Businesses, entertainment markets, telecommunications entities, government and educational institutions, and companies involved in basic industry all share the need to present and communicate their own products and services more attractively and efficiently using people who have engaged the pursuit of excellence in imagination and technique.

The growth of the role of the artist in society has only the vision of the practitioner to limit their future. As you continue reading about more specifics involving advanced education in the art fields listed below, always remember that art is the substitution of "nothing" with "something", and that "something" could be you and your vision as an artist.

Being an artist is about being free to express your personality through art. Clearly, one can express himself or herself in numerous ways but to be considered an artist one needs to express himself or herself through an artistic endeavor. At this point some of you may remark that this leads to the question "What is art?" It certainly does. However, answering this question is the subject of a completely different essay and we will not tackle it in this article. Let us just say for the present time that photography is an art form, and that we will consider photography as the medium of choice for the purpose of this essay. Clearly, artists can express themselves in a variety of medium so we will also take it as point of departure that while photography is our primary concern we may very well, as artists, be creative in other mediums as well.

This being said, the main difficulty of being an artist, in our estimate, is first feeling free to express yourself and second being free to express more and more of your personality, of your character. Why? Because there are a number of things that stand in the way of achieving this. Let's look at what those are right away.