Last Year's Successes are This Year's Clones
That was a very bold - but very true - statement made during an artistic seminar which I attended yesterday, in relation to photography by the great Tom Lee . I guess it applies to everything else, doesn't it - whether you are creating something with a piece of yarn, a paintbrush or a block of wood. It is funny how, when one artist comes up with an interesting technique, everyone begins copying that technique. With social media, this is even more rampant so that this stifles the creativity of the artist: why would I invent something new if everyone else will be doing it in a few months ' time? The tendency of people to copy has never been more rampant. I guess, this was already done in the past: if a great artist like Michelangelo, celebrated in his time, came up with a new way of depicting people and had a school of eager students, you can bet your last dime that everyone would have painting in a manner that emulates his new technique. People tend to have the copyist