This, more than anything else, is what the AI Bros cannot understand. There is tremendous pleasure in making something that wasn't there before you went to work. The end result might what gets sold and pays the bills, or might just be 'okay, I learned a lot from this, my friend loves it so it's now theirs' or 'this is going in the fire!" But the process itself is what makes it worthwhile.
Mark Twain said, "Work is what a body is obliged to do, play is what a body is NOT obliged to do." Which is why we put so much more energy and pleasure into play. And some people just do not understand this, CANNOT understand that making something, doing it well, is not drudgery, it's pleasure. 'but you could make money from that!' Dude, money is tremendously useful, but it's not the most important thing in the world!
Amazing! I did not know Leyendecker studied under Bouguereau! Bouguereau is one of my all-time favorite artists, as much for his art as who he was as a person. Thank you so much for sharing these valuable tidbits. I love hearing descriptions of 19th century art training!
Leyendecker studying under Bouguereau has long been a fan theory of mine! I knew WAB taught there, and he died a few years after JCL's study days. Thanks for confirming this long running theory of mine.
This, more than anything else, is what the AI Bros cannot understand. There is tremendous pleasure in making something that wasn't there before you went to work. The end result might what gets sold and pays the bills, or might just be 'okay, I learned a lot from this, my friend loves it so it's now theirs' or 'this is going in the fire!" But the process itself is what makes it worthwhile.
Mark Twain said, "Work is what a body is obliged to do, play is what a body is NOT obliged to do." Which is why we put so much more energy and pleasure into play. And some people just do not understand this, CANNOT understand that making something, doing it well, is not drudgery, it's pleasure. 'but you could make money from that!' Dude, money is tremendously useful, but it's not the most important thing in the world!
Amazing! I did not know Leyendecker studied under Bouguereau! Bouguereau is one of my all-time favorite artists, as much for his art as who he was as a person. Thank you so much for sharing these valuable tidbits. I love hearing descriptions of 19th century art training!
Oh the humiliation of being relegated to the casts
Leyendecker studying under Bouguereau has long been a fan theory of mine! I knew WAB taught there, and he died a few years after JCL's study days. Thanks for confirming this long running theory of mine.