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The Art of Failure

11/16/2015

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I've introduced this concept to my students many times: the Art of Failure. Many people assume that failure is a bad thing....but that is only the case if one doesn't learn from it. The idea of doing something over and over again-until it is right-is not always a comfortable thing for many young students.

Many believe that after they've made a self-portrait, that they are somehow 'done' with self-portraits. The ole "been-there-done-that" mindset (which drives me crazy!) I explain that Frida Kahlo and Vincent Van Gogh didn't just make one self-portrait; between the two, they've probably made hundreds! They don't all work-some were probably considered "failures" by the artists-but they were all worth doing. Because something could be learned by all of them.

This BBC Magazine article, How Creativity is Helped by Failure, is worth a read.


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