Artists Are "Different"? - Page 3

Linda Fried · 05-22-2003, 04:33 PM

"subjective". It covers everything in my life that I agree with my own opinion on.

A rare flower to some is completely freakish to others. Once you give yourself permission to be right about your own opinions, it opens all kinds of new possibilities! LOL

Linda

Gary Hoff · 05-23-2003, 12:05 PM

"I have all my life been told how "different", "unique", etc., I am -- and believe me, it's not a compliment in many instances!"

Yeah, Linda, I think a lot of artists get told they're "different," but for a whole lot of reasons. Sometimes its because of the kind of awe you get from people who don't believe they can "draw a straight line" (who can?) and sometimes its the mystique of "artist," and sometimes it's different personality types. Who can really say? In my own case, my wife has told me for thirty years that I'm not from this planet, so I guess my experience is similar.

Linda Fried · 05-23-2003, 12:33 PM

I like you, Gary!

Linda

Margaret Port · 05-24-2003, 09:20 AM

Hi Linda,

Thanks for the link to the left/right brain quiz.

I'm a 12/7 right brained person. One of the descriptions amused me particularly where it states that a left brainer will adapt to a situation but a right brainer will want to change it.

I've just spent a month rearranging the entire office where my husband is the manager. (I might mention that I have hated working there because it was so disorganised.) My original excuse to the owner was that hubby was having trouble getting files out of the filing cabinets because of his broken arm and that we needed open shelves.

Of course we had to move something so the filing cabinets could be moved and we had to move something else, etc., etc. Of course then the filing cabinets had to match so they all had to be covered with green contact paper and the new grey metal shelving had to be painted green and then someone decided that the walls needed painting, and so on.

I finished up lying in bed one night waving my arms about imagining how all this was going to happen in what sequence. Then I resorted to a list.

It is now finished and all twelve employees are very impressed with their new space.

Of course none of this activity gets me any serious painting done but the office is now as shiny as a new pin so some people are happy.

Linda Fried · 05-24-2003, 02:38 PM

So am I!

12/7 is good. Right????

Linda

Linda Nelson · 05-24-2003, 04:17 PM

I'm a 12/7 too!

Linda Fried · 05-24-2003, 06:15 PM

I think we should compare answers....
I'm going to go check mine now...

Linda

Margaret Port · 05-25-2003, 05:22 AM

Mine says I'm holistic, random, concrete, intuitive, non verbal and fantasy oriented.

That means I am a hippie type, who flits from task to task, learns by doing, knows the answers to lots of inconsequential stuff without knowing the process involved in getting the answers, gives lots of background information when telling a simple story AND believes in fairies.

The story-telling bit frustrates my husband no end.

I rely on instinct quite a bit.

My best paintings are done when I react to something and the idea has to be noted immediately. When I try the academic approach of pre-planning and organising, I am quickly "over it."

I'm now going to get my very practical husband to do the test. He is so left brained it is painful.

Linda Fried · 05-25-2003, 11:02 AM

Hi Margaret,

Wow, it sounds like you were describing me, completely. Are you also a Leo?

Linda

Elizabeth Schott · 05-25-2003, 11:38 PM

My experience as a "graphic" artist has shown the main difference is that we tend to notice the slightest detail that others may overlook, whether it be an image or emotion in others.

Personally, I like that in myself.

Linda, I was a 16 right, 3 left, but I must admit I cheated on the Algebra/Geometry question. There wasn't an answer for "none of the above"!