You can find a video version of this talk here: http://youtu.be/bAwekkgCeik A brief talk on the Art of being an Artist delivered at an all day workshop we hosted at our Culture Design Lab that included yoga, painting and talks on being an artist. Meant to be a rough framework and introduction to the concepts.

1. THE ART OF BEING AN ARTIST
with
Yoga4Artists
Joshua Elias

2. THE ART OF BEING AN ARTIST
10:30am Yoga4Artists
11:40am Joshua Elias
12:30pm Lunch
1:00pm Painting
3:00pm artist?
4:15pm Closing Meditation

3. “EVERY CHILD IS AN ARTIST.
THE PROBLEM IS HOW TO
REMAIN AN ARTIST ONCE WE
GROW UP.” - PICASSO

4. You can’t do that!

6. “AT THE ONSET OF EVERY
WORK, YOU MUST
RECREATE YOUR PRIMAL
INNOCENCE.” – RILKE

7. THE ART OF BEING AN ARTIST
with
Yoga4Artists
Joshua Elias

8. THE ART OF BEING AN ARTIST
with
Yoga4Artists
Joshua Elias

9. LUNCH

11. THE ART OF BEING AN ARTIST

12. What does it
mean to be an
artist?

13. artist as:
practitioner
creative
artist alchemist
in society
catalyst

14. artist as:
practitioner
makes art

15. art

17. art

24. Dance
7 lively arts
Music
Drama
Poetry Opera
Sculpture
Visual Arts Installation
Architecture

26. Dance
7 lively arts
Music
Drama
Multi/
Poetry Mixed
Media
Sculpture
Visual Arts
Architecture

27. artist as:
creative
becomes god

28. “So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him”
Genesis 1:27

29. as above…
…so below

30. Input
LIFE
Process Output

31. Input Process Output

32. Input Process Output

33. Input Process Output

34. artist as:
alchemist
transmutes Self

35. “Supreme art is a traditional
statement of certain heroic
and religious truths, passed
on from age to age, modified
by individual genius, but
never abandoned.”
– William Butler Yeats

36. religious???

37. religare

38. ligare
=
to bind/tie

39. ligare
=
to bind/tie

40. ar-s
=
Art/Craft

41. ar – yoga –
join/ yoke/bind
connect connect

42. The capacity to contemplate perfection of form without any kind of
worldly agenda. It is the ability to connect to a higher self, one in which
love, freedom or beauty, or any other absolute exists in a state of
Platonic ideal.
Aesthetics
Empathy
The capacity to connect to other viewpoints in this reality. Perceive, feel,
think that which some other apparent point of perception is
experiencing.

43. 2-fold process
of Transformation

45. Coagulation
Distillation
Fermentation
Conjunction
Separation
Dissolution
Calcination

47. Masculine Feminine
Active Receptive
Expansive Contractive

49. discernment inspiration

50. transform yourself
transform the world

51. artist as:
catalyst
creates culture

59. http://artist21.info

60. THE ART OF BEING AN ARTIST
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