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essence
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process
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form
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AoA part five: "materials"
Materials is just what it says: The physical materials you use in the real universe to make the physical representation of your idea.
Plus the additional fact that this does not only include canvas and paint for the painter, and the piano for the pianist, but even the light waves from the picture, and the soundwaves from the piano or a recording. In other words, "materials" includes all the things that are strictly physical and measurable about the work of art. (It may be noteworthy that this includes only one ninth of everything about the work!)
A simple rule about this: Know your materials.
Study your materials. Play with them, drill with them. Read books about them. The better you know them, the better your control will be, and the easier the creative process will seem.
This includes the small specifics of each part of the materials, but it also includes the more general things: A painter must understand what light is, and what color is. He must know the definition of a "line" and a "shape". A musician must know what a sound is, what a note is, what rythm is. You get the idea. The more thorough your basic and specific knowledge is of that you are working with, the easier a time you will have producing. (And you ought to do yourself the favor of including the understanding of how humans and the physical universe works in general.) |