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Summary

The article discusses the journey of an artist from obscurity to potential influence, emphasizing the importance of creativity, authenticity, and resilience in the face of conformity and the lure of commercial success.

Abstract

The text "Annoying Lamination" is a reflective piece on the artist's struggle and evolution within the context of societal expectations and the art world's norms. It encourages artists to break free from the constraints of conventional forms and the homogenizing effects of mass appeal, advocating for the pursuit of originality and innovation. The narrative uses the metaphor of the Bell curve to describe the stages of an artist's career, from the uncertain beginnings in the first percentile, through the comfort of mainstream acceptance in the second percentile, to the pursuit of excellence and influence in the third and fourth percentiles. The article underscores the importance of maintaining artistic integrity and passion, suggesting that true success lies in the ability to inspire and shape trends rather than succumb to them.

Opinions

  • The author believes that artists should reject the 'plasticization' of their work by society's tendency to simplify and categorize art.
  • There is a call to transform and extend artistic expression beyond traditional boundaries, embracing complexity and depth.
  • The article suggests that the pressure to conform to the Bell curve's central mass stifles creativity and leads to a decline in the artist's originality and satisfaction.
  • It posits that artists who resist the temptation to remain in the comfort of mainstream acceptance and strive for the outer percentiles of the Bell curve are more likely to achieve true creative fulfillment.
  • The author asserts that reaching the fourth percentile, and potentially becoming an influential artist, requires surpassing conventional success and contributing uniquely to the art world.
  • The text conveys that the ultimate goal for an artist is to influence the masses while maintaining their creative autonomy and integrity, rather than being influenced by them.

Annoying Lamination

Transform the Polygons Bursting Their Rectilinear Lines

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Dare to get out of your comfort zone. Express loud and clear your refusal to annoying lamination. Refuse the plasticization of the masses by freely continuing our creativity without any censorship.

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Show off outside the mold. Perform outside the box. Eliminate strict and closed forms.

Transform the polygons by bursting their rectilinear lines. Extend the linear voids to floating meandering curvatures.

Explore the three-dimensional monochromatic textures of absolute whites and blacks giving birth to greys with infinite hues.

Prove that the annoying flatness of the flat-line is capable of producing polychromatic hopes.

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Bell Curve illustration for normal population 2nd and 3rd percentiles

Fitting the curve seems to be trendy to reassure the mass and level the art of judgment down.

Slow down the individual to prevent him from rising exponentially in his brilliant originality.

Bell Curve illustration for population divisions

The artist will have to create while moving away from Bell’s curve.

Normally, in the first percentile, any emerging artist faces uncertainties based on poor mass responses.

Unfortunately, this is the part of the trajectory that discourages the artist the most and where the artist loses the most.

Those who resist this inevitable transition can continue their progress in normal distribution in the most popular part of Bell’s curvature. It is here, in the second percentile, that artists have a critical decision to make on the intersection of the division of the curve.

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The emerging but insecure artist will choose to settle there almost permanently, loving the sweet comfort of the stability of the mass and regularity.

Settling there often means killing your creativity and gently living in a jaded mood for the rest of your career. Even ending up hating your work, your life and even family. In return, the emerging but go-getter and dreamer artist says goodbye to comfort and certainty and embarks on surpassing oneself and continues on its way to the third percentile.

The dreamy artist understands that he must climb and stand out along the curve that he is progressing. The future of his creations must stand out from the average and the standard deviation of mass.

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Once reached the third percentile of the Bell curve may seem very good to settle there in the longer term since the artistic niche is still very motivating to keep the soul of the artist alive. Some reside there for a while, but others more adventurous push their creations while trying to continue towards the final stage, the fourth percentile. This final stage reveals two coveted revelations that offer two other possibilities of creative nobility.

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In the fourth percentile, artists can stay in the top ninety-fifth percentile, while continuing their arts of impulses coming directly from their passions and authenticity while respecting their integrity. Hardly achievable, the second revelation of the fourth percentile, the artists’ Sangreal, is to be able to reach and surpass the top ninety-fifth percentile, to open the door to the worlds of high-level outliers.

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Creatively, an outlier is an artist whose creative art curbed from the main path, does not revolve around the general trend, and does not follow the rest of the art communities’ popular movements. The Sangreal of any artist who has reached the top as an outlier is gaining the influential artist crown. The irony of any influential artists who have reached the top of the Sangreal is that, they get to influence the mass. They have reached the right to drive the trends and decide whether their influential art will be linear or nonlinear.

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Influential artists gain the golden coefficient of determination badge, coveted by emerging artists.

The importance of continuing to create with passion, conviction and truth with all your soul, and not just to please the masses, takes on its full meaning here.

Francine Fallara, 2020

Author of “Inkling Whispers” eBook edition and Paperback available on Amazon and Kindle.

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