iTap lecture 1

Not all ideas are original by any means, in fact todays most ideas for new and interesting concepts have there roots in an older and sometimes very similar piece of art. This is the principle of connectivity. Not every one can come up with new and fresh ideas all the time, so the look at predecessors works in order to gain some inspiration, which then in turn affect the final work they produce. But if all works of art are just revisions of older works, can they be called original in there concept? How can there be contemporary pieces of work if its got aspects of someone else's in it? The way art and for that matter many other things humans do progress is by look at what has gone before, what’s worked and what hasn't, and making something using that knowledge. Ideas will change with time as one person revisions something, another after them will revision what they made, so on and so forth. Once in a while someone comes along and smashes this to pieces and creates something completely odd and different, but never with out looking at what has or hasn't been done in the past, people who create such works set of trends that ripple through the art word and there new and fresh idea influences other peoples work. This is a good thing as it slowly helps the art word change and consistently focus on fresh new ideas.

Gaining inspiration from an others work is far from plagiarizing and is in effect the essence of creating new ideas and interesting images. Some people however will plagiarize work and make a practical carbon copy of it, but where is the line drawn? Well different people have different views on what is and is not plagiarizing, so it can be very difficult to find a solid line of this is the same as this and so on. But if almost all art works are copies of each other where did it all start? Well people have imaginations, and thus can visualize a great number of things, but there thoughts will al ways revolve around what is important to them, the events in there life and what they have been taught. So natural early forms of image making where based on just that what people could see in front of them, using materials that best matched such things. Some of the early paintings based of something one could not see where of religious figures, drawing angles and heaven so on, this again was inspired by what they knew and had been around. This hasn't changed thru out the years of human history our ideas will always be influenced and inspired on what has happened to us and what has already been done.