You are touching on a big subject, far too big to really touch upon in a comment (hence the book recommend)
I studied art formally. I had the chance to meet and be tutored by some really incredible artists. At some point I had to choose another path that led my foray into frontend development and UX.
It is indeed in the human context and character where great artists come from. Some artists can read the zeitgeist and extract a meaningful and masterly done work that defies the status quo. One of my teachers framed it “It’s like the olympics and you try to jump just that bit higher and raise the bar. And you don’t know if you are doing that unless you try.”
So yeah, the human, their process, their ability to discern what is visually needed, their cultural context, their ability to be autonomous when it is called for, those are hallmarks of significance.
Now the AI generator can help you iterate ideas (like you have to choose photos after a shoot) , but you are still the director, you still have to know what to pass and what to embrace.
Some artists are not known until long after. For instance there was a street photographer who did street photography long before it was known as such. Now those works are seen as very significant. This is someone who tapped into something and showed a new way of looking.
I studied art formally. I had the chance to meet and be tutored by some really incredible artists. At some point I had to choose another path that led my foray into frontend development and UX.
It is indeed in the human context and character where great artists come from. Some artists can read the zeitgeist and extract a meaningful and masterly done work that defies the status quo. One of my teachers framed it “It’s like the olympics and you try to jump just that bit higher and raise the bar. And you don’t know if you are doing that unless you try.”
So yeah, the human, their process, their ability to discern what is visually needed, their cultural context, their ability to be autonomous when it is called for, those are hallmarks of significance.
Now the AI generator can help you iterate ideas (like you have to choose photos after a shoot) , but you are still the director, you still have to know what to pass and what to embrace.
Some artists are not known until long after. For instance there was a street photographer who did street photography long before it was known as such. Now those works are seen as very significant. This is someone who tapped into something and showed a new way of looking.