“We liked to record the drums and bass first, to get them perfect. The other instruments would be put on afterwards. But sometimes the rhythm track would be so fucking perfect that we’d forget about the other parts and just play about with the drum and bass. So what started as a technical thing became a creative thing. I’m so good at it because I’ve got great ears!”
— Lee “Scratch” Perry
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“Vision, Uncertainty, and Knowledge of Materials are inevitabilities that all artists must acknowledge and learn from: vision is always ahead of execution, knowledge of materials is your contact with reality, and uncertainty is a virtue”. — Art and Fear, 15.
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The inductive thinker. Nicolas de Staël in his studio.
Everyone has a different approach to thinking and solving problems, but the various approaches can be boiled down to seven broad methods. Krome Barrat calls this collection of methods the design spectrum. These are the seven with various personalities associated with each. I have to wonder if an attraction to a particular artistic expression might not be a sign of one’s way of thinking, a kind of aesthetic harmony between minds of the same kind.
Ratio and proportion: simple comparisons of number, size and quality (Herbin, Rothko, Kline).
Induction: reasoning from the particular to the general (Van Gogh, Cézanne, de Staël).
Deduction: reasoning from the general to the particular (Miró, Moore, Pasmore).
Analogy: partial similarity. If things agree in one particular, they may agree in others (Klee, Mondrian, Matisse).
Metaphor: substitution of objects or actions that emphasizes selected characteristics (Chagall, Gauguin, Magritte).
Heuristics: the exploration of chance; discovery by trial and error (Klee, Pollock, de Kooning).
Algorithm: computation by prearranged steps intended to solve a specified problem (Seurat, Monet, Vasareley).
“…a work of art is a solution to a problem”. — Krome Barrat
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