Tonight I met someone who's work I really admired. Their reception of me was less than favorable, I still admire their work, but now I feel like I'm going to look for flaws in what I used to see as perfection. Lesson: Seperate the work form the indiviual. Everthing that shines ain't gold. Have you ever met someone whom you look up to and they were not the person you built them up to be? I wanna know.
posted by Tony Grant at 4:39 AM
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I've had people that I know who turn out to be different than I thought and that was bad but I've never really met someone I had looked up to. I would find it difficult to enjoy their work anymore though because I would have trouble seperating the work from the person.
Amy, yeah I thought that too, but I think that you keep the artist away from the art. The art or craft is pure, not the person. At least that's what I took away from the experience.
Interesting thought. It's never happened to me....yet. You never know though, right? :)
Yes Chelle, it was a character study. I found it informative
Tony,
I find in business almost all people must be seperated from their work.
Sometimes when I'm doing a story I find the people interesting, but then find out that how they represent themselves always has an end result.
You're from Hollywood, I think you should be familiar with the fact that all that you hear is mostly bullshit--a way to get to the end game.
Jbwritergirl, I understand that artist have a certain arrongonce to them, their artist, I just don't want to put myself in the place of adoring fan again, The art is beautiful, some people arn't. But it was a painful awarkward moment for me.
i don't know...if i didn't like the person i would have a hard time seperating their work from them...
Jessica, yeah it will be tough, but I will try hard not to think about the negative and just view the work
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