Friday, August 23, 2013

Links to Excellence – James Baldwin: The Making of an Artist

Experiencing an artist’s work that is loved so deeply can make one assume they’ll equally love everything created by the artist, till coming across a work that refutes the assumption.

This is simply what makes an artist an [artist] – one who does not placate to others’ expectations, but to the integrity of self-expression.

Baldwin was an artist-writer who ensued new creations of self-expression, as the following link illustrates.