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Artists are designers. An artistic designer will conceive
and create plans to be used in manifesting something of artistic
value. Often times during this process, artistic designers
will consciously or unconsciously seek, embrace and employ a
source of inspiration in order to bring their imagination to
life.
Michelangelo is said to have remarked that he released David
from the marble block he found him in. “The painting has
a life of its own. I try to let it come through,” said
Jackson Pollock. Writers often exclaim that their novels
already exist in their entirety and that the writer’s job is
to listen for it, watch the events in their mind’s eye and write
them down.
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same may be said of all art. If paintings, sculptures
and novels wait for artists, then sonatas, plays, poems, jewelry
and fashion wait for artists too. The artist’s job is
to simply get them down. To do that, artists must draw
from a creative source. Some people find it easier to
picture the stream of inspiration as radio waves of all sorts
being broadcast at all times. With practice, we learn how to hear
the desired frequency on request. We tune in to the frequency
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| What
is inspiration?
It
is a spontaneous process resulting from the subconscious mind's
reaction to man's experiences and as such it gives a revealing
snapshot of all the thoughts, values, and emotions an individual
has accumulated in the course of his life. Any experience that
appeals to the contents of man's mind and soul elicits a response
of inspiration. Every expression that appeals to man's highest
ideals is a source of inspiration. It is the quick route that
bridges an artist’s emotions to his thoughts and reveals his innermost
soul through his responses or creations. The importance of inspiration
for human life is based on the nature, role, and needs of human
consciousness. It is fuel for his soul.
Artists often find
their richest sources of inspiration through their experiences
with nature, religion, art, literature, music and dreams.
Sometimes the artistic self wants to express itself creatively,
but doesn't know where to begin. There are two distinct
parts to the process of inspiration. First, the artist must
accept and acknowledge the possibility of inspiration and secondly,
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Sources of Inspiration
Nature –
Artists are often inspired by nature. This is because
to him it represents an untapped human potential. Nature is
the domain where man's creative ability is applied and his heroic
potential realized. In nature man is inspired by the potential.
Empty spaces can be filled with orchards, factories, shopping
malls, art museums, laboratories, and other monuments of human
civilization.
Natural Elements such as gold,
sterling silver,
pearls,
diamonds and
gemstones have inspired Jewelry
Designers for ages.
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| Architecture
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Architecture
is the most obvious instance of man conquering nature, which is
why scientific achievements provide great nourishment for the
artistic mind. The skyline of New York and other big cities is
a concrete manifestation of human creativity. All the technological
achievements of our
time
from medicine to computers and from the exploration of space to
nuclear science provide evidence of grandeur that elevates the
spirit of the artist or designer.
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Religion and Philosophy –
Religion and Philosophy also uphold the power of reason and glorifies
man - like the ideas of Aristotle, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment,
and Ayn Rand. In jewelry for example, crosses
and other religious symbols have been a major inspiration to
religious jewelry designers since the medieval period.
Emotion Love -
Made
popular in the Victorian Age, the heart became the international
symbol of Emotional and romantic love. Artists and designers
have used the heart as a way to express love. Tiffany
& Co. have designed a beautiful Heart
Shaped Jewelry collection inspired
by the heart.
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Animals -
Since the days of the horse and carriage and the royal hunt, the
equestrian sports have influenced style, fashion and jewelry.
For example, the jewelry
designer Hermes has contributed a great deal to
Equestrian jewelry.
Sports -
Athletic achievement is another important source of inspiration,
which is why athletes of the stature of Babe Ruth rank among humanity's
greatest heroes. Every expression that appeals to man's highest
ideals is a source of inspiration.
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Art
It is no coincidence that the foremost source of inspiration is
art. The very role of art is to materialize man's metaphysical
values. By virtue of his ideas, an artist admires majesty and
grandeur, the glory of man emerging triumphant over nature, the
radiant image of man the creator, man the conqueror, man the hero.
This is precisely the image conveyed by the works of the greatest
artists in the history of humanity, which provide the artists
with priceless emotional fuel and the fervent desire to measure
up to the example of their artistic archetypes.
Music as inspiration occupies a special place in this context.
Contrary to the visual arts, music has an immediate impact on
the soul by directly touching man's emotions without any intervention
by the conscious mind. Music reached its peak in the late eighteenth
and early nineteenth century with giants like Mozart, Rossini,
Bellini, and Donizetti, masters who created with the sound of
their music the harmony and grandeur achieved on canvas and in
marble by Da Vinci and Michelangelo. |
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Synchronicity –
Synchronicity is the acceptance that the universe is helping with
the artist’s creative process. Artists will hear the dialogue
they need, find the right song for the sequence, see the exact
paint color he almost had in mind, and so forth. Artists
have the experience of finding things – books, seminars, tossed-out
stuff- that happen to fit with the project at hand.
Just as various artists and designers apply their abilities and
energies to different areas of endeavor, they also respond to
different sources of inspiration. Others have a greater response
to art, others to science, others to sports, and still others
to the potential offered by nature. An artist finds his greatest
inspiration in the majesty of an exquisitely sculpted human body,
an architect in grand buildings or open spaces where he could
build and a jewelry designer
may find inspiration through sculpture, painting or nature. |
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