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Originally Posted by DARISC
Ooooh my! I do believe that you may be mixing together impatience/lack of attention to detail with adroitness/spontaneity!
While both of those painters worked with great alacrity (Van Gogh sometimes at a fevered pitch, by historical accounts) NONE of their work exhibits even a hint of uncertainty or carelessness, though roughness and apparent speed of execution might lead an uninformed viewer to think that it does.
Their genius lies partially in the fact that they could express themselves with such clarity and power, often, especially in the case of Picasso, with an extraordinary economy of means.
Show me litererary examples written by acclaimed writers that you compare to off-handed first drafts such as we post here and I'll be open to enlightenment.
Incidentally (not authoritatively), I know a little bit about that of which I speak, being a painter myself. And, brer Tabs, I'd never consider comparing my posts (which are also ALL first drafts) using examples of geniuses as an analogy!  |
I have seen Van Gogh's work up close and he did have a frenetic style that seemed that he wanted to get it on canvas before he lost the vision of what he wanted to accomplish.
I don't care about a perfectly concise presentation, what I care about is the presentation of complex or abstract ideas in a coherent fashion. It is the idea that makes or brakes and not the sloppiness of the presentation.
There is a cetain superficiality to those that get hung up on the cleanness of presentation. In other words one has to look beyond the presentation and onto the idea that is expressed. The words are important and not whether they are spelled correctly.