I’ve been thinking lately about how artistic whims manifest differently in music versus visual arts, and I’m curious about other people’s perspectives. On the one hand, both seem driven by a desire to break convention. You see it in experimental jazz with it’s unusual time signatures and atonality, mirroring the abstract expressionism of a painter using only non-traditional tools to create a canvas.However, I find the “permanence” aspect engaging. A visual artist’s whim, once realized on canvas or in sculpture, exists as a tangible object (or at least a documented image). A musician’s whim, conversely, is often ephemeral, existing only in performance or recording. A flubbed note,a sudden improvised riff – it either vanishes into the air or is captured as a specific,single version. Does this inherently make musical whims feel… riskier, or perhaps more liberating, than those in visual arts? What are your thoughts on how the medium affects the artist’s willingness to experiment and indulge their creative impulses?
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