To take inspiration is not to reproduce other artists’ art of work, but to refer only to some parts of artworks and transform their own work, via inner, intimate language.
I often write about artists and people from whom I am continually taking inspiration. Who are they? Let’s mention only these names: Seneca, Leonardo da Vinci, Hieronymus Bosch, Fyodor Dostoyevski, Salvador Dali, Stanley Kubrick, Stanislaw Lem, Zdzislaw Beksinski, or David Bowie. But what does it mean to take inspiration from people mentioned-above? Is that mean that I will start to paint Mona Lisa in Photoshop? Or maybe, I will try to move the action of Dostoyevski’s “Devils” into the XXI century? Does taking inspiration from Kubrick mean that I will try to reproduce a low-budget b-movie inspired by his “2001: A Space Odyssey” film? Also, I can suit up as a Ziggy Stardust (one of Bowie’s famous embodiment) and try to sing “TVC 15?”
I repeat, according to the beginning of this post: taking inspiration is not to copy old masters’ works of art.
Getting incentives from others is to analyzing, arguing, developing, shifting other people’s ideas.
Thus, all my pictures and texts are not a copy of other people’s works. I find a very pleasurable activity to seek inspiration from others. Still, I do not want to make copies of other artists’ works. I love this feeling when I find one single point in a painting, song, movie, or book, for which I can refer, whether in my images or written texts.
What about you, my Dear Friend? Do you seek inspiration in artworks of other famous people? If yes, do you try to copy it or argue or refer to some ideas of Great Masters?
Pictures presented in this post one of the examples of how we can get inspired. Still, we cannot name these images as reproductions. My images possess a decimal of other artists’ works.
