(January 7, 2015 at 2:08 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Emotional connection with the medium? Really? Many artists do have an emotional connection with their mediums be that word, the violin, their own voice, oil paint, marble, wood, or their own bodies as in dance. But that rarely, if ever, is the point. It's emotional connection with the subject that's necessary.
True, but my point was that it's the emotional connection with the medium that truly draws out the creative inspiration in the artist. The feeling I personally feel as I'm sketching out a picture doesn't compare to the almost giddy feeling I get from laying down a page worth of character development for a story. It's that emotional connection that allows an artist to tap his/her potential.
(January 7, 2015 at 2:08 pm)Jenny A Wrote: I strongly disagree. If the result is not good, the fact that the process was a journey (even a deep emotional one) for the artist won't make it any better art. You are mistaking art therapy for art.
I'm not saying that it doesn't ultimately come down to the final product. I'm saying that it's impossible to completely separate the final product from the process that created it, therefore the process comes into consideration.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
