Artists

I have known a few artists in my time. Normally these are very right brain people with little or no left brain training. And herein lays the trap for some.

Some artists know not what they are trying to express, at least not in words. To do so would be to attempt to explain a right brain activity with left brain methodology, which they aren’t very good at. So they have right brain issues being expressed with right brain communication channels. This is all good until the critics and academics start wading in with their left brain waffle; the artists rarely agree.

Contrast this to the odd artist who uses their art to comment on, say, a current social issue. The approach of using art as a medium at first disguises the fact that, when pressed to discuss the issue in words it becomes apparent they are absolute dilettantes. The art may have technical merit, but it is communicating absolute rubbish.