tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3313799443819854406.post890204414365949930..comments2023-09-04T04:59:16.747-07:00Comments on John Bauman: Craftsman's Conversation ContinuedJohn Baumanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10910451039953672849noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3313799443819854406.post-52360718981280885002011-08-21T08:07:46.692-07:002011-08-21T08:07:46.692-07:00"But by the same token I wonder if the sculpt...<i>"But by the same token I wonder if the sculptor can't also make the same claim that the 'content' took her 35 years and then some to develop? If "content is arrived at by the artist's life experience" how can it be dismissed as comparatively vacuous?" </i><br /><br />Heh. Because if she'd had the life experience, she wouldn't have asked the question. She would have known.<br /><br />Okay, the "vacuous" bit was gratuitous. But it was based on a bit of intuition -- she was asking such a naive question in the first place because she still didn't understand that art doesn't consider degree of difficulty when determining value.John Baumanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10910451039953672849noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3313799443819854406.post-4413312464491928172011-08-21T07:58:19.462-07:002011-08-21T07:58:19.462-07:00I love your first answer to the question! But by t...I love your first answer to the question! But by the same token I wonder if the sculptor can't also make the same claim that the 'content' took her 35 years and then some to develop? If "content is arrived at by the artist's life experience" how can it be dismissed as comparatively vacuous? Even if outsiders consider it trivial or incomprehensible (and the same can be said for pottery by certain audiences) doesn't its expression also depend on the person's accumulated life experiences, introspection and investigation? <br /><br />Technical craftsmanship is only one of the things that takes time to learn and develop. An artist's imagination seems to require a similar path of growth, exploration, and mastery. And isn't that also true of our own imagination as potter/craftspeople? It just seems like creative people of all stripes are more similar in these respects than they are different? <br /><br />I don't know.... What do you think?carter gillieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12744265678233135968noreply@blogger.com