Talent is a gift

I read those words today well I twicked them a bit "When I stand before God at the End , I hope that I won't have a single drop of talent left in my veins and that I could say "Thank you God for the gift you gave me I used it All"

What does talent mean?

1. A marked innate ability, as for artistic accomplishment. See Synonyms at ability.

2.

a. Natural endowment or ability of a superior quality.

b. A person or group of people having such ability: The company makes good use of its talent

 

What a lot of people dont know is that Talent also meant 3." A variable unit of weight and money used in ancient Greece, Rome, and the Middle East"

 

I can relate to no 3. it makes perfect sense talent is an artist asset or shall we say an artist currancy.

 

Well I hope that I have enough talent in my veins to make me an Artist.

What makes an Artist????

Can I call myself an artist?

A question that has lingered for more than 20 years. Am I an artist or just a hobbiest of some sort? I have regard for artists to the extent that I have feared calling myself one. For the past 20 years I have expressed my art or my love of art in many ways.
I started by drawing and painting then I did stained glass then went onto jewellery designing and making. I have made beautiful jewellery over the years.
However my designs started to become like every one else just some pretty objects with no meaning and now I know that till that moment I was infact an artist then I got lost because I have stopped expressing myself and started to follow trend.



So if you have lost the way may be going back to basics is a good idea.
So lets look at the basics:

An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common u
Wiktionary defines the noun 'artist' (Singular: artist; Plural: artists) as follows:

• A learned person or Master of Arts
• One who pursues a practical science, traditionally medicine, astrology, alchemy, chemistry
• A follower of a pursuit in which skill comes by study or practice
• A follower of a manual art, such as a mechanic
• One who makes their
  1. A person who creates art.
  2. A person who creates art as an occupation.
  3. A person who is skilled at some activity.
  The Oxford English Dictionary defines the older broad meanings of the term "artist": craft a fine art
• One who cultivates one of the fine arts – traditionally the arts presided over by the muses

A definition of Artist from Princeton.edu: creative person (a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imaginationsage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only.


The present day concept of an 'artist'
Artist is a descriptive term applied to a person who engages in an activity deemed to be an art. An artist also may be defined unofficially as "a person who expresses him- or herself through a medium". The word is also used in a qualitative sense of, a person creative in, innovative in, or adept at, an artistic practice.
Most often, the term describes those who create within a context of the fine arts or 'high culture', activities such as drawing, painting, sculpture, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking, photography, and music—people who use imagination, talent, or skill to create works that may be judged to have an aesthetic value. Art historians and critics define artists as those who produce art within a recognized or recognizable discipline. Contrasting terms for highly-skilled workers in media in the applied arts or decorative arts include artisan, craftsman, and specialized terms such as potter, goldsmith or glassblower. Fine arts artists such as painters succeeded in the Renaissance in raising their status, formerly similar to these workers, to a decisively higher level, but in the 20th century the distinction became rather less relevant^{[citation needed}


Well based on the above I am an artist who has been expressing my self in one way or another in one form or another and its only by seeking to refine my art that is when I become a Fine Artist.


In conclousin this is how I see it:


Art: true its hard work over time to accompolish your skills.
But skill alone doesn't make an artist. Art is an expression of our life and ideals.
This expression takes many forms, drawing,painting, music, dancing, jewellery.... but in the end its a way for the artist to express him or herself.
The artist learns the form and seeks the formless, learns the way then makes his own way.
The true artist learns it all, but then forgets it all to be able to create his/her own vision.
When you stop thinking about the skill and the process and seek the inspiration and free expression. That is when you create your own art not follow the trend.


There is an artist inside of You and only You can free it .when you bravely take onto a journey to discover yourself and the world around you and learn to express it freely.