[Qory]

Hmm... well, when I was a kid (hell, I still am a kid), my house never really was all that asthetically umm... y'know.. well-designed... and I'm a crappy artist... I'm just wondering if all of you GOOD artists out there mighta grown up with a nicer environment surrounding you that might have led to your becoming a good art... like if your house has good interior decorating and all that... anyway, just curious

Qory

[faustgfx]

my house looked more interesting and cunning after my father burned it.

had nice textures everywhere. real good emboss effects.

and the palette! so natural.



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[[Shizo]]

LOL i lived in apartment in one of many cement boxes in Moscow :) Actially i liked it very much.. My balcony was facing the thing that was like a panel that worked like a shader for 1st floor below (i lived on second floor) so this plane collected many trash thrown from above and when i walked on my balcony this thing made a cool target shooting thing when i bought air gun (shooting cats and birds was fun too)

ahh but basically i lived in cement box (sorry not a cartoon box like BUM)

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[melisa]

I don't believe enviroment really has that much to do with it. If it did... I would have talent. *wink*

Honestly, I grew up in a highly 'art-based' enviroment, having actually moved to oil paints and pastels by the time I was seven. But still to this day, detail is not something I have mastered. I paint more in vague notions, thoughts and colors.

My mother can paint a picture that closely resembles a photograph... dozens of them have decorated my world for as far back as I can remember, and still... My work is merely an expression of ideas without lines. I'm usually proud of my work, but next to 'real' artist... well, hmm. *blushes*

Anyway... I don't believe artist talent comes from enviroment, it comes from within each person. Art, in my mind, is an expression of ourselves, expressing itself in ways we may never find the correct verbal words to illustrate properly.

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[Qory]

Yeah, I agree.. hehe... now that I look around, my whole house has beautiful asthetics... and there are beautiful works of art all around me... most of which are made by family members... it seems that I'm the only one who didn't inherit the artistic ability in the family... anyways, I just wanted to see if environment really does affect you all that much...

another question: Music has been proven to improve the marks of students... what about visual arts? Any ideas there???

Qory

[hennifer]

well, considering i was a kid through part of the 70s and the 80s, if interior design dictated art, i'd be drawing everything pea green, or neon pink.

oh, the horror!

[seas]

well i can see incredbly beautiful sunsets from my window every night,if that counts...
and i always looked at my weird wallpaper seeing different shapes/creatures everytime...
melisa: i believe you're artistic style is called impressionistic, that's where you just paint in feelings, thought and colors. So i would say you're _very_ artistic...and there are different artstyles, not just beeing able to paint photorealistically. And IMO i think your environment can affect your artstyle because your environment can effect your personality and most artists personalities are reflected in their art... I checked out your website, real nice actually...but i couldn't find any artworks in it the "underwater adventures" pic links to a page which doesn't exist...well enough for me, you're prolly sick of reading all this crap...

[Jess]

hmm... my father built our house in the middle of the woods in New Hampshire, USA. For most of my time there, the house was incomplete, and always had some flaws here and there. But when I grew older, my dad completed my room, including a large sky light... which was pretty cool. Color influenced my mood for the most part. And as for enviroment... I don't think it was the house... it was my parents. I used art as an escape from the hostile enviroment I grew up in. I would spend hours in a daze drawing self portraits and shadows on a wall... because when I was drawing, I was not affected by anything else that was going on around me... and that made me feel better.

Again, I don't believe that one has to grow up in a beautifully decorated home to become inspired or interested in art. Art is all around us in every different shape and form you could imagine... and even some you couldn't. When you are able to look at the world, as if you haven't seen it before... and only recognize the shapes, colors and textures of everything around you... recognize it's beauty and put it to life in your own eye... that is art. (to me)

On the music note, I have noticed that music drasticly affects the mood of my young child. If I am listening to say... Sarah McLachlan or Tori Amos, she is very mellow and relaxed. But if I turn on Korn or Limp Bizkit.. or some other kind of harsh music.. I notice changes in her behavior and mood. So I try to keep it mellow and calm here.

As for visual arts, I think it is very healthy for young children to be exposed to art at early ages. When I lived in Boston, I started taking my daughter the the Museum of Fine arts when she was just 2 months old... and she absolutely loved it. And from there on, she has always been surrounded by music and visual art... and it's just become a part of her life.

[nova]

I'm not sure my childhood contributed to too much of what i am (art) these days, but I had a nice house since I was 5, that had all sorts of highlights to encourage imagination, i guess: there were trees to climb and pretend in, a pond in the front yard, swings, a playhouse, more trees.. it was nice, but not tudor.. yeah, my mom listened to a lot of music that I grew up liking too, like ABBA and Little Richard *grin* She also has no artistic talent, but always encouraged me, and kept as much artwork of mine as she could, since i was very young and could pick up a pencil and draw on paper My dad has a few creative genes in him, and he used to do crystal cutting and pake beautiful stuff in that. As for household interiors, when we remodeled from pea-greens, yellows and browns, i thought i lived in a mansion (i was 7 at the time.. forgive me), but i don't think that incluenced me much.

All in all, i think it was simple encouragement from my mom and dad from a very very early age that kept me drawing.




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[Affected]

I don't think the apartments had that much effect on me, but some other stuff did. My mother was a Marxist in the 70's and both my parents, especially my mother were peace activists when I was little. That meant they took part in all kinds of rallies and demonstrations, taking me with them. That led to me ending up in several foreign coutries. Once we were in Murmansk, when the soviet union was still up and running, and I ended up in a soviet childrens' show... But my mother was the truer activist. In the early 90's she took part in a big peace demonstration in Israle, Jerusalem I think. Basically people all over the world gathered there in a demonstration against the fighting there. There were so many of them they were able to form a human chain surrounding the entire city, and for each demonstrator there was an armed soldier standing opposite to them. The demostration, of course, was dispersed by the army using water cannons and tear gas. The reason? The Israeli government said someone had raised the flag of Palestine.

Anyway, I do believe my childhood and the things I participated in, the people I met and the places I saw have definitely influenced me, maybe the images I make as well.

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[This message has been edited by Affected (edited May 07, 2000).]

[AliasMoze]

Let's see...I lived in about seven different houses growing up, until I got kicked out by my father at age fourteen. Ended up living with grandparents in the country until eighteen.

In the midst of all the trauma, I drew with my brother, since I can remember (probably age two or three). Started out crappy, but drew everyday of my life.

Getting good is all about practice. I had no encouragement from family but drew for the fun of it (and escape, probably). End of story.