Pop Art Idol

I didn't see this coming about two years ago! It is no surprise to me that the new pet art project of Charles Saatchi is to set up a Britains Got Talent/X-Factor style TV programme for artists. The aim is that the winning artists (who will of course all be painters) will get to exhibit their work in a gallery in Russia.

What he obviously wants is to make as much money from it as Simon Cowell has made from syndicating Pop Idol and X-factor all over the world.

The Social Negation of Creativity

"Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains"; (Jean Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract, 1762).

Due to life circumstances I have been unable to settle myself enough to create art, so to try and release the build-up of inner creative energy I've been reading new things on art and creativity theory to try and expunge the daily detritus of everyday nonsense that clouds and confuses our real thoughts. I suffer these creative bursts where I have to indulge (that is what it clearly is)in either making spontaneous free art, or immerse my self in reading, thinking and the expression of ideas. The ideal way to express the inner creative life is to maintain a psychological, physical, and social balance as the foundation for creativity, unfortunately for me, circumstances at present do not allow this, and I am having to cope with a lot of unexpectedness at present....too much of this can be quite unsettling. It's particularly frustrating for the creative (whole) self(see images) which if accessed, intuitively knows what life context and environment it needs to be in to flourish. The harsh reality of our personal and global worlds is that they seems to often prevent the realization of our complete human expression by the restrictive social, political and economic frameworks we try to live within.