The Patriarch Of Art

Provide expressiveness to the shape of your leadership, emphasizing your personality by contrast with the style matching your level of maturity.

The writer Adina Nanu stated the following about the great French sculptor, Antoine Bourdelle: “Bourdelle’s creations meant for the public, during many decades, the emblem of sculpture of all times, seeming to exceed everything ephemeral and placing himself in the timeless zone of great monumental art.”

She obviously wasn’t wrong. But how did this man of praise stand out?

Being 20 years younger than Auguste Rodin, Bourdelle worked in his studio until he found his style. While Rodin’s sculpture was designed to convey in movement a passionate gesture – Bourdelle tried to fixate stable aspects, understanding sculpture firstly as architecture of the original volumes.

At the same time, from one of his uncles, who was a stonecutter, Bourdelle learned to handle the chisel and the hammer, listening to the rock that “seemed to speak”, indicating after the sound to the attentive ear of the master if the shot was well implemented. And from his father, who was a furniture carpenter, cabinet maker and sculptor of decorative pieces, he learned to carve reliefs in wood.

From them, he learned to enter the light of fame.

Can you fix the stable aspects of an art that deserves in-depth knowledge, understanding the evolution of Creation primarily as an architecture of monumentality that goes beyond the ephemeral?

Educating yourself, without anyone’s help, is in vain – you can’t improve your performance. Your efforts are, in this case, as a grain of sand without clepsydra – an effort that does not fill the gaps in your experience, in your culture, a very distant point of propulsion to the true performance you aspire to.

That very important and valuable grain of knowledge, which should flow into your time glass, giving you the opportunity to develop your specialist skill and competencies, will always remain still. So, your progress will stagnate and you won’t be able to make the qualitative leap to “mastership”. As for the knowledge that an artist shows, this being about a dynamism in eternal development, inherent in the plastic approach, whose tension can vary from one cycle of works to another, it seems to be closely related to the purpose to any Creation: to serve to mature his soul, to help him become a completely perfect being.

Without a doubt, it is important to become a perfect artist. But only those close to you will determine your level of efficiency. You alone can’t increase your knowledge and chances to make a career, but the mentors that you choose can do so. You must put together relationships with the best guides possible, to find a way to adopt the clear and beneficial ideas of their vision, to implement and contribute to them, if they are valuable and on the same wave length with you. The secret of leadership isn’t to gain as many followers, but to surround yourself by the most valuable mentors and outline your vision after their model.

To understand the evolution of your Creation as an architecture of monumentality that goes beyond the ephemeral means to develop your knowledge to include ideas outside the norms, so that you become a “classic” of the avant-garde in terms of receiving the Artwork.

You mature by understanding the “art” that others practice. Your maturity level increases or decreases depending on the degree to which you engage in assimilation and use of the most important elements, methods, aspects and information of their art. Now is the time to test your knowledge and see how many of your achievements can fit into the unity of the work of art, which is not only given by the sum of several themes put together, but by a double intertwining relationship: between what is sustainable and what is considered prestigious internationally.

Just as carbon dioxide from the air (CO2) intervenes in the “food” assimilation in plants, so your development occurs if others intervene with advice and suggestions that are designed to complement and enhance your level of knowledge and improve your performance – so only if you assimilate some of their style of thinking and art making.

In order to give expressiveness to the shape of your leadership, shape your personality in contrast to the style that fits your level of maturity.

The maturity test of an artist lies in his ability to understand and make others understand the evolution of knowledge starting from its objects; at the same time, it resides in his ability to interpret and explain the relationship between artistic phenomena and the media context.

The Patriarch Of Art is the one who possesses the secrets to better understanding and knowledge of the art of leadership, as well as the power to achieve great performance in his career, serving as an excellent role model.

Before becoming a “master”, you should cultivate yourself in the rhythm of those who are better than you, finding similarities between their vision and yours, acquiring that knowledge and skills meant to help you develop your own leadership style.

Conclusion: Knowledge underlies leadership, as well as the desire of improvement and the willingness to learn from the experience of others. Then, it is important that your “art” carried on the high peaks of perfection withstand external evaluations of field specialists.

Learn from everyone and, especially, let yourself guided by the advice of your mentors and you will be satisfied with your performance, your results obtained with a huge effort on your part, but which have ascended you on the value scale of the society.