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Thursday, 12 July 2012
Wednesday, 4 July 2012
Tuesday, 3 July 2012
Disruptive innovation
Greetings! It's been fifteen years since Harvard professor Clayton M. Christensen's much quoted The Innovator's Dilemma was first published. Countless corporations, governments and technological organizations have applied his ideas in attempts to improve bottom lines and minimize failures. Disruptive innovation describes how steamships disrupted sailing ships, autos disrupted railways, mini-computers disrupted mainframes, Wikipedia disrupted paper encyclopedias, digital photography disrupted film photography, etc. To put it in the Christensen vernacular, "Start-ups often provide disruptive innovation and readily eat into the market share of older value networks."
Disruption, it would appear, is one of the natural keys to invention and success. I've been curious how Christensen's principles might apply to art.
Impressionism disrupted academicism, abstraction disrupted realism, etc. While there are many artists who work diligently to create the next "ism," some among us think that realism is currently re-disrupting abstraction.
But let's face it, many of us are happy to produce what we think are safe, middle of the road, non-disruptive art that thrives on the comforting repetition of traditional forms and sentiments. I'm not making a value judgment here, I'm just reporting. But I do invite artists to look at their work and try to measure just how disruptive it might be or become.
Works of art that vary from standard conservative norms tend to attract attention. Damien Hirst's formaldehyde shark, sliced cow and diamond-studded skull come in high on the Richter Scale of "shock and awe." At the same time, subtle variations and stylistic nuances also draw quiet attention. Evidence of newness and novelty intrigues, puzzles, amuses and motivates viewers. In a competitive world (of which the business of art is one) the conscious or unconscious attention to this phenomenon may be vital to both survival and thrival.
Here are a few questions worth asking: Are all disruptive art forms art? To be disruptive in your art, is it necessary to disrupt someone else's? Why do humans crave novelty? Is "shock and awe" necessary? Why does Damien Hirst make so many folks upset and annoyed?
Best regards,
Robert
PS: "Breaking an old model is always going to require leaders to follow their instincts. There will always be persuasive reasons not to take a risk. But if you only do what worked in the past, you will wake up one day and find that you've been passed by." (Clayton Christensen)
Esoterica: Cruise your work-in-progress and ask yourself a few further questions: How could this work be more imaginative? How could this work have a beguiling subplot? Where in this work have I sunk into normalcy and complacency? Is this work dull, boring, yawn-inducing? In what way is this work different from what I've previously seen or done? If I were a "start-up," what would I do? Courageous, outrageous, audacious, bodacious--where art thou? Incidentally, if you're interested in pursuing this subject, you might take a look at "Innovation" in our own Resource of Art Quotations.
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Sunday, 1 July 2012
Friday, 29 June 2012
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Albert Marquet, Paris Under Snow, 1905-06
From the National Gallery of Canada:
This view of Notre Dame cathedral and the bridge of Saint-Michel was probably captured from Albert Marquet’s studio. He painted similar scenes tirelessly, from various angles and during different times of day and different seasons, creating diverse moods according to the effects of light. Though Marquet’s use of broad, simplified forms is typically Fauve, his use of colour is more restrained, as is clearly evident in this painting. He has captured the gloomy atmosphere of a dull winter day with sombre colours painted in muted tones. Note how the human beings and horses are represented by simple and gestural brushstrokes to convey form and movement.
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Tuesday, 26 June 2012
What digital photography isn't
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Monday, 25 June 2012
From time to time I am reminded of my journey with unhealthy thinking patterns. It seems we have to spend a lot of time re programming ourselves and deleting the old tapes that run amok sometimes in our heads to claim some happiness in this world. I have learned a thing or two from our cat, Mr. Bingley, a creature of 'pure being'. He just eats, sleeps, grooms and hunts for amusement all day. Of course he has what I presume is little self-awareness and no sense of his own mortality...and does not ask himself existential questions, so he has little need for worry or anxiety.
I am reminded of the Scripture passage...
I am reminded of the Scripture passage...
Do Not Worry
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[a]?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
Matthew 6:25-34
New International Version (NIV)
It seems that Mr. Bingley can show me a thing or two about living....
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