Philosophy is art an acquired skill?

The reason that it runs in the family is because other people encourage family members to do it. Like for instance, I didnt play soccer 2 years ago until I went to mexico. In Mexico soccer runs in the family among males and guess what...now i play soccer.

Its impossible for you to be born with it. Like i said before it all depends on the environment around you, and how it affects your body and your mind.
Secondly, its how much you do it. The more you do it, the better you get at it and thats when it seems like you are born with it. Its all in the mind.

 

i believe that to be able to create art u have to be talented. i dont hink that u can just "learn" how to draw things if u dont have any talent, the only thing that u can really do is to emprove your talent. Its like having a musical talent, u either have the voice to sing or u havent. Same goes for sports too. And perhaps for math( yea i have no talent in math, no matter how hard i tried never could get higher than B-) :anger2:

 

I think anybody can learn how to draw, no I know anyone can become a good drawer its just this that, some people have a les harder time to draw , and they do have a born talent, but that doesn't mean that we that aren't talented cant draw if we practise, I am not talented but I draw like hell to brake these born talented kids, I do 6 hours every day and on Saturday, Sunday I draw 12 hours, but still I am not that good I have only been drawing for like 3 years this year. What I believe is that if you really are in to something you can become whatever you desire. If you really want something you can get it. ^^ Nice topic by the way :catgirl:

 

i don't think it is an accurered skill.
you just need to practice(so do i)
anything can get better with practice and i think the same thig goes for art to.

 

Well, I think that skill can be acquired both by being born with it and by working hard. The difference is that someone who isn't born with it has a lot more work to do before he/she can be good at it.

I believe the same can be said about any skill, not just art. If you put everything you have into something, you will eventually be good at it.

 

That's what an acquired skill is.

 

I think that most talents are innate; you're just born with it. I can practice painting for 12 hours everyday and I can guarantee I won't be as good as Van Gogh or Monet. I can play basketball for six hours a day and work out another three, but I'll never be Michael Jordan. I might get very good, but never on that level (Believe me, I've tried).

I guess what I'm saying is that I believe in the Plateau Theory, the idea that everyone is born with set capabilities and a potential that they can attain but never exceed.

 

I whole-heartedly disagree with that. Sure, sport-wise, that may work, because a sport is not an art- it is an excersize. Training your body is VERY different from training your mind. That's a COMPLETELY irrelevent connection. Art is NOT being able to draw- art is perspective. It's being able to see things differently, being able to recreate them. I know that pure talent can't carry you all the way without work, but read my first post... and some of the examples I give there disprove your conclusion.

Ideas and traditions can be picked up b/c of environment... but not ways of thinking, which is the true essence of an artist.

I can teach you to draw in a day, but I couldn't teach you to be an artist in a lifetime.

 

Now you have made it easier for me. And im sorry for taking art as just drawing...that was very foolish of me.

Okay, so art has to be all in the mind. But when you are born it is impossible to have an ability when all you can do is scream and whine. Once again, I point to environment. Something has to happen to trigger that part of the mind that makes you see the art.


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NOTE: In my perspective, sports can be a form of art. At least I treat it like it was.

 

This is probably a bad analogy (or whatever it is)... but think of it like a computer... say you get a computer; the computer has the potential to run a specific game or something of the sorts, but it doesn't come right away with this game, you need to get it separately... perhaps when someone is born, they have this ability hidden deep in the caverns of their psyche and it's kept away in their mind until something unlocks it.

I dunno... maybe I'm stoned or something. ;

 

That got me thinking...(Yes im no longer blank)


We are born with brains...and that carries the potential to see things a different way. ( a little ryhme) So art is not a skill you are born with its something that you aquire when your mind sees something. Sort of like a game console...you can only see the game image if you have your RFU switch plugged in ( or the tri color one for some people or most I think)


To sum it up, your mind makes you get the ability to see or draw or write art. We are all born with minds... I hope :sweat: