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Originally Posted by Newt
Thanks Walter! This also explains why the judges pick and the show favorite (voted on by general public) are never the same. Great stuff, thanks for sharing!!!!!!!!!!
Newt
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We have mentioned above 3 categories of viewer: the naive viewer, the jury, and the artist. I think that the jury should be much the same as the artist, because they are the authority, right ? They are the well-educated, well-developed, with full skills and know-how in the art. The fact that the jury picks out different species than the show favorite however, doesn’t have to mean that they are not capable to judge; they evaluates the bonsai’s with the intellect OR with the hart, NEVER with the novice state. This article promotes that art should come from the hart, not the intellect. It’s an opinion that is very regular and very conservative. Below is another such story:
It’s supposed that artists walk upon the art-developing proces like Bruce Lee once said: “In the beginning (when he was a novice and know nothing about the art of fighting), a blow is just a blow to me, raw and neutral. I can’t say it’s beautiful; it must be just painfull for the victim. During the learning and training, a kick becomes a high technical stuff for me. I learn the right way to stand, how to properly and strongly kick without loosing balance, etc. The kick is now an intellectual stuff, something “highly” developed. I train thousand times this one kick, untill it suddenly, and that’s the moment that any trainee now becomes an artist, become just an “ordinary” kick again for me. But still, its not quite the same: I feel free this time; the kick is my emotion, I’m the kick”.
Based upon this kind of stories, I believe we can talk about these 3 stages in art development: the novice stage, the technical stage, and the art stage. Mention that the first and third stage sees the subject “just as is”, not the second. It brings me to the conclussion: art is something beyond or after the intellect. Unfortunately, we can not define art, can we ? But why should we ?
The story of the mountain farmer of Tyrol strucked me very much. Is this than the right and only one criterium to define good bonsai; bonsai as an artform ? I will be very proud if the bonsai this guy talked about was mine.