Stephen Worth, director of the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive, on the importance of skill:
Ever since Andy Warhol made “ideas without skill” fashionable back in the 60s, it seems to me that popular culture has been playing a game of “skill limbo”. How low can we go? How badly drawn can a cartoon be and still be considered a cartoon? How many drum machines and sequencers can we stack up to avoid having to learn a real instrument? How much plastic surgery does it take to make acting skills unnecessary?Gladwellian-10,000 hours come to mind. He continues:
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The multi-part series, “Adventures in Music,” is unmissable.But when I see someone who has both an idea AND skill, I’m reminded just how doggone powerful and dynamic a creative artist can be. I’m sick and tired of accepting “half a loaf”. Speak to me with eloquence. Dazzle me with your skill. Communicate an important idea. I insist on “all of the above”.You said it, Stephen Worth, with both idea and skill. And as Richard Sennett reminds us, “making is thinking.”
This is something that really bothers me about current culture. Everything is tweaked, nothing is made.
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