Influenced by another Artist?



Maybe another theme Mark, the difference between influence and copying and what is influence, is it okay to try and avoid artistic influence as opposed to inspiration?? I sometimes go to an exhibition and I am inspired, or I feel "well, I can do just as well as that! I need to just keep going, if they can do it I can!!"

I think that the last line here is the answer, “if they can do it so can I” but do your work not theirs.
I don’t want to talk about copying again and if you do copy stop.
It takes no talent to copy, it just takes skill and most people can learn to do that.
Talent is doing your own original work.
What about influence and inspiration?
We are all influenced by the Art we love and it can inspire us to go and do our own brilliant work and that is good, the problem arises when we are inspired and then we go and copy the work that inspires us, not good.
An example, you may love a certain landscape painter and you can’t get enough of her work. So you see her work and then you go and paint your landscapes, which is great but don’t sit down with a book and copy her paintings, that is wrong and it’s not original and it is not Art, it’s a copy.
If you are inspired by her landscapes go into your landscape and you capture it in your way in your original style, that is how influence by another Artist should work.
I am inspired by seeing this landscape painting and now I go into my landscape and discover my painting hidden in it, that’s the creative process and it’s called Art.
This could be with any genre of Art, abstract, portraits, still life etc. You see it, get inspired and then go and discover your painting on your canvas, the miracle of creation.
That’s what Artists do.



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