I'm posting this to get people's thoughts on Visual Art vs. Music, from the Artist's perspective and possibly stimulate some conversation which I wouldn't mind reading. This is not a "this vs. that" in a competitive sense. I actually mean, what are your experiences like in comparison? With music there are advantages and disadvantages. Advantages are that once it's recorded, you can carry it around on CD etc.. which is a lot easier I imagine than carrying canvases or sculptures around. If you play on stage live, you also can get quite a buzz from the adrenaline rush, sort of like a microcosm of the birth and death cycle. You can be scared at the start and then once you start time goes by like a blur almost and you lose yourself in the moment (when it's a good night!) and once it's done you are feeling very relieved and satisfied, running on endorphins. Disadvantages with music I guess are logistics and interpersonal stuff if you're in a band, and also if you're a solo person who just records more than anything, the equipment neccesary to get the recording done well etc.. can also be a headache and a financial drain. So for arts other than music, I'm curious as to what you like about it, as an artist, and what you don't like about the process you need to go through to get your creation finished and out there for people to see. Also feel free to share what drives you to do what you do, and what your process is like, ie: Do you wake up at night with an idea? Is it just a general feeling you want to invoke in someone else, or do you have very specific ideas that inspire you? Are you spontaneous or are you methodical from the beginning to the end? What do you enjoy the most about what you do? What frustrates you the most about what you do? (paint fumes, messy room/clothes etc..?) Lastly, i'm not sure how many people on here are artists but i'm sure there's a fair few. Musicians can also respond of course, but there's plenty of threads about music in general so i'm more interested in your ideas in relation to this topic, that's why i've posted it here in the Art section.
well for me i find music much more of a reslese, i can pick up a gutair and just play and sing, it comes out so easy.the freedom i think is greater to some exstent with music.for me that is anyway.but I draw and paint aswell which i enjoy greatly but find much more thought has to be put into it. which come to think about it is not ture you can be as sponstines as you want with art hmm mybe i need to be more free with my art work. in terms on what inserpers me i think for music it's more of a personal thing like happenings in my life where as painting i try to get a feeling across even if it's not my own.so in that sence my art is more distant to me. i think the feeling music gives me could never be recated with art.still i'm glad i don't have to choose i think they both play a role in my life and need each other to surive in a way. i'm mybe not the best person to talking to really but i teird sorry about the spelling i'd spell chk it but i really can't be arsed. good question though
i really agree with the above guy.. for some reason art...takes more of a thought process. or a differnt style. music, you can just belt it out, pick it up and play..theres an instntaneous result that flows.. the problem is that if you havent recorded it, its gone, never to be heard again! and when you do record it, you're in a diffenrt mood perhaps. than if you were just freely singing/jamming to your emotions. its more 'set up' and threres a little pressure there to sound good, incase someone else hears it. with art, the same thing, theres more fear involved becuase the work..is very clearly all there in one composition...right in fron of your eyes, and you know thats going to be the result, in borad daylight for evryne to see, so then you;ve got more issues about well...am i doing this for my own pleasure?, or am i doing it to look a xcertain way for certain eyes?? with music its much more directly soulful, because of the connection. physically the tool, the instrument, resounds and that gives tyou the impoteus for the next sound...the follow through.. and melodies develop through the ear. with art, visually, you are looking at what yo are ding ll the time, and unless you are very vrey artistically viewd, then there will always be more blocks i assume.. nbecuase poeople genreally judge, critiseise and pick at things visually. Its easier to accept perbhaps what somebody says, than how they look for instance... we might hear a person on the radio saying thigs, we are more likely to listen...be recpetive and appriciate.. all iontrinsic artisitc qualites... but perhaps if the same person is on tele, they will adopt a dictaorial expression, or there will be something about them that we do not like the look of. and we are less receptive therefore. you cn anot like the sound of thigs too, but i think gnereally we are better at listening than looking. and making art, we're having to listen to our inner thoughts to create what we want to, and this is more difficult becuase theres so much indecison or various ideas in there at once. with music you can play an note, sing any note, and your soulful expression will flow more readily.
Thanks for replying both of you (though a spell checker might come in handy! hehe) I agree about music seeming to me also, a more immediate experience. I usually am way more interested in sounds than visual things, and sounds also emotionally affect me so much more than visual images, 90% of the time anyway. It's funny that people tend to be very visual creatures though.. As said above we judge people so much on their visible, physical appearance. Their body and their clothes mainly. Yet at the same time visual art doesn't seem to in general strike a chord in as many people as music does... (notice even, the musical metaphor which is very common!) I wonder about painters and such, music is hard enough to make a living from, but painting... I can't image a less economically viable thing to do in the modern world! It's not about money when you do art etc.. but still it's bad that the world values certain things these days over others. Namely the almighty cause of so much suffering, the big $.
Oh, and rant Pt.2: One thing that annoys me a bit about the modern world in terms of art etc.. is that it's too easy to sound or look talented. Music: Abuse of autotuning voice correction and electronic production in general... It went from underground to mainstream and now anyone without even any musical training or innate talent can make something and say "i'm a musician!" Visual Art: The advent of photoshop type technology and websites like deviantart etc.. make it so easy to just take a photo of something, anything really, add a few filters and colour changes etc.. and then call yourself a 'photographic artist' etc.. No doubt there's some great stuff out there being made this way, but still the same point applies as with over-use of musical technology. Both of these situations cheapen the end result for me.
