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WD_074 / 2004
(  Satoshi Kinoshita )
| Series: | Works on paper: Drawings | | Medium: | crayon and pencil on paper | | Size (inches): | 11.5 x 8.2 | | Size (mm): | 297 x 210 | | Catalog #: | WD_074 | | Description: | Signed, date and copyright in pencil on the reverse.
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
-Edgard Varese
GENIUS: One of the more overworked conceptions in traditional artwriting, "genius" originally referred to an attendant spirit or tutelary deity of the sort seen sprinkling holy water in Assyrian reliefs. It has become synonymous with transcendant intellectual or creative power and as such is a cliché in basically Romantic descriptions of divinely inspired artists outside history (see pseudotranshistorical). In postmodernism, nothing is seen as outside history, and all conceptions of genius are discarded or at least made secondary to such things as the social formation. See also bohemianism, divine afflatus.
-Department of Fine Arts, Okanagan University College. Compiled by Robert J. Belton.
www.arts.ouc.bc.ca
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.
-Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance artist, etc. Giorgio Vasari.
Genius:
The term genius is originally a Latin term from Roman mythology meaning 'spirit', either the internal driving force within all living things, or a specific spirit, or demon with supernatural powers. A similar term from Arabic legend is jinnee.
Modern usage:
In modern usage, a 'genius' is a person with distinguished mental prowess. This can manifest either as a foremost intellect, or as a creative talent. The term also applies to one who is a polymath, or someone skilled in many mental areas. The term does specifically apply to mental rather than athletic skills, although it is also used to denote the possession of a superior talent in any field; eg, one may be said to have a genius for golf.
Gifted:
Geniuses come gifted with phenomenal brilliance, and are often very sensitive emotionally. Artistic geniuses usually start out as prodigies, but differentiate themselves from the rest through great originality and/or inspiration. Intellectual geniuses usually have crisp, clear-eyed visions of given situations, in which interpretation is unnecessary - the facts just hit them, and they build or act on the basis of those facts, usually with tremendous energy. Here too, accomplished geniuses in intellectual fields start out in many cases as prodigies, gifted with superior memory, pattern recognition or just understanding.
Prodigies are simply talented virtuosos, more like circus freaks who do not necessarily feel controlled by any impulse to build or create. Geniuses are creators. They make huge original leaps in their field, rather than just extending the previous body of work in that field. To distinguish between a prodigy, a genius must also have created or brought in something new in an established field, usually, the sciences, math, literature, chess, art, and music.
-Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
-Oscar Wilde
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