Tuesday, January 13, 2009

The Danger of Total Freedom

Famous filmmaker Federico Fellini (say that five times fast) said, "The greatest danger for an artist, is total freedom." Why would or how could total freedom be dangerous for an artist? What does an artist gain by letting others edit or change his/her work?
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4 comments:

Steph said...

well sometimes its hard for artists to have total freedom and no guidelines. for alot of artists its easier to create something with atleast one or two small guidlines and/or goals.
also they could end up making something really offensive to everyone but themselves. and more realistic artists paint stuff from thir real life experiences which could be a bad thing if something bad has happened, which also could be very dangerous depending on the situation,
when artists let others change their work or edit it they could learn different tecniques to use in their other peices. or get more ideas for new peices.

January 21, 2009 at 6:25 PM
stripes20 said...

i think the artists draw whatever they want to draw or something that they like. but sometimes people dont like what they draw or it has something do with thier religion or something sometimes people get offended this makes author think why did i draw this thing so his art work might be in dangrous.

January 25, 2009 at 6:12 PM
Unknown said...

I think that if artists are given total freedom they are bound to offend people. Although that is what some art is made for, to be offensive and strike a point, if an artist was to have total freedom. With this much freedom, people would be offended all the time, and it could become violent in an attempt to destroy the art like what the dentist did in the Brooklyn Museum of Art to the Holy Virgin Mary.

Michael Ignasiak
Iggy
Period 8-9

January 26, 2009 at 5:10 PM
Bianca D. said...

By giving an artist total freedom, you take a bit of the thrill away from making art. The whole point of art is to make people think in new ways about new things/ideas/concepts, and sometimes some of those ideas are not very popular; in fact they may be taboo. Art is a way people channel their frustrations about society and other people, and if it is suddenly ok to paint/sing/ do anything, then there is no point; not if it isn’t going to elicit some sort of reaction. With complete freedom there won’t be any reaction to your art because everything’s ok.
Think about graffiti artists. Would the work be half as good or exciting if everyone was okay with strangers painting on walls in secrecy? Many artists rely on shock effect to get an audience; why else would an artist use fecal matter as a medium (besides that it looks nice to them)? If there is no way to get a shock effect, there is no point in trying.

January 26, 2009 at 9:46 PM

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