Ive started going to live lectures in Nottingham Trent the past couple of weeks to listen to artists talk about how they work and about their work. One of the best ones so far was a woman named Jo Addison, i loved her talk mainly because she showed me another artist that had inspired her named Friedrich Frobel. Frobel was the inventor of the building block, and he was amazed by the way children played with them and how pure a child's creations were. This is also something that really interests me, the way that children play and create things that most adults now days would be too scared to make, mainly because its either different and we dislike change or because its deemed weird for an adult to be having thoughts like a child.
I personally think that any thoughts that a child has about art and creation are as Frobel says, the purest form of art, and if an adult has a thought like this then it shows the creative potential that the individual has. Although i also strongly believe that everyone has the untapped potential to create things like this, only a certain few will ever act on it and bring it out into the world.
http://www.joaddison.com/ - link to Jo Addison's web page
Jo is a lecturer at Norwich university which i find rather exciting, because if i gain a place and attend there i will be able to pick her brains even more and get a better insight into the way she works!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Fr%C3%B6bel - Link to the Friedrich Frobel Wikipedia page, This page explains how he was an influential educator in history.
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