Smashing the myth that art is an inherited skill and learning through failure (2024)

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Smashing the myth that art is an inherited skill and learning through failure? ›

There is a myth that artists are born being able to draw and paint, that art is somehow an inherited skill. The truth is that every artist struggles to learn their craft and that every artist copes with failure and doubt. Every term at the Little Art School we look at the lives of great artists.

Your kids might inherit some natural talent, but might lack the discipline or nurturing to make themselves a great artists. Or, they can inherit no talent at all and can become incredible artists anyway.

But in the arts, failure is often seen as a dirty word—no one wants to be responsible for a critical or commercial flop. But without taking risk and pushing boundaries, art would remain stagnant, and the creative spirit would be wasted on our own fears.

According to Plato , art is false knowledge of reality. An artist's imitation can deceive common people, not the philosopher, who knows the essence of real- ity or the real being of things.

I would say both. But I think you can learn to access your creativity which we all have and thus learn artistic ability through developing our art skills without any talent.

Genetics may play a role in creativity, but the choice to make art and be creative matters more. Creativity in all forms – art, music, writing – is so complex that it's hard to pinpoint its source.

Some people believe that you need to be born with talent in order to be a good artist, but this is not true. Anyone can learn to draw or paint with enough practice. Some of the most famous artists in history were not born with talent, but they practiced regularly and became great artists.

It's inevitable. No matter how much we try, we all will eventually encounter those roadblocks that set us back and make us doubt ourselves. But despite this, our failures and rejections do not have to be hindrances. Nor do they have to define us.

Inadequate Efforts: Many artists think they are doing the correct things, yet due to some unknown reasons, they are not doing the effective work. A portion of the reasons behind this are they are not doing what's necessary, are doing the wrong things or are getting things done in the incorrect order.

When it comes to art, though, it's never worth it. It's not only about you - putting yourself at risk might put someone else in danger as well, like a rescue team trying to get to you. Think twice about the possible consequences of making that image.

What does Aristotle say about art? ›

Art is defined by Aristotle as the realization in external form of a true idea, and is generated out of the natural pleasure humans take in their innate ability to imitate and imagine as well as the pleasure humans feel in recognizing likenesses.

Answer: According to Plato's theory of mimesis (imitation) the arts deal with illusion and they are imitation of an imitation. Thus, they are twice removed from reality. As a moralist, Plato disapproves of poetry because it is immoral, as a philosopher he disapproves of it because it is based in falsehood.

Def Art/Kant/Gadamer: Kant's definition of art as the "beautiful idea of a thing" takes this into account, insofar as even the ugly is beautiful in the representation by art. GadamerVsKant: Nevertheless, the true essence of art comes out badly in its contrast to the beauty of nature.

Skill and craft

Art can connote a sense of trained ability or mastery of a medium. Art can also refer to the developed and efficient use of a language to convey meaning with immediacy or depth. Art can be defined as an act of expressing feelings, thoughts, and observations.

These forces include environment, personal belief systems, contact or absorption of foreign cultures and ideas. Art educators believe artists are born and made. Artists born with artistic capabilities must be developed through training, teaching and development of interest in the arts.

Skills are built, not born. A simple phrase that can become the bedrock for great learning. Of course it takes time, effort, some experiments, and struggle to earn a skill. But, if it's a skill and you do the work, you can build it.

Creativity is not heritable and has no unique genetic basis. At most, twin studies suggest that only about 22% of creative performance is related to the genetics we are born with. This is Nature, and it is the minority. The rest, which is the greater majority, is down to our Nurture.

As for drawing ability having a genetic component, it is worth noting but hardly surprising, as so does virtually every human behavior except for traits such as language.

The data showed that genes play a big role. About 40 per cent of singing ability is heritable – shared between the twins with identical DNA. But there is also a correlation in singing ability in twins who do not have identical DNA, and it is almost as strong.

Famous Stanford psychologist Carol S. Dweck in her book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, argues that artistic ability is not a gift, and can be learned.