The Artist

In the late 18th century of the Romantic Period there was a subtle decline in the creativity based on the achievements of the past. It rather shifted toward the importance of the 'standard of personal vision'. "Art could owe nothing to tradition or the past because that debt qualified the power and originality of the individual creator." The artist expressed what he or she experienced, saw, and felt. This had to be original, because its basis did not rely on a genre or convention for popular familiarity. Pure inspiration and passion was all that was needed. The true artist would not sway to create something that was already tested by culture and time.

"The true artist was noncommercial, struggling on the fringes of human existence, with neither society nor companions( and hardly any publishers), alone with his indomitable self."

Don't be fooled. There is no such thing as absolute creativity. All art still has some relation to the past and its text. So, if we go back far enough, God is the Artist.

- LJ Kim

Sources: Film Theories and Criticism (Braudy), Screenwriting from the Soul (Krevolin)

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