It is a subtle combination between creation and technique that gives birth to the miraculous “Work of art”.
In the realization of a sculpture two parameters should be taken into account: creation and technique, and this, whatever the material employed.
The “technique” is a material nature; it is the whole of the procedures which are to be respected to build the object under the best conditions so that it succeeds. The” technique” is learned.
Creation is a conceptual nature, it is the IDEA, it is preliminary to any construction of an original work and comes from the brain of the artist, fruit of his convictions, his experiments and his intuitions. The capacity of creation is a gift.
Counting on “the technique” is a work which is carried out over the duration, the more we practise, the more we become skilled; to progress in its technique brings great satisfactions, like rewards satisfaction for the work well done, which will cause the admiration of the others. Counting only on” the technique”, can become repetitive and tedious in the long run. A sculpture which would not be that “technically perfect” in oneself is not a work of art.
To give the priority to the idea, to privilege the expression of oneself, by avoiding technique is inevitably the choice of transitory and are connected more with therapy than with Art. This sophisticated form of narcissism, generally takes refuge in the abstract and leads most of the time to a dead end, when it is not relayed by a powerful creative idea. As Georges Brassens said: “without technique, a gift is nothing else that a dirty mania”.
In conclusion to have a “gift” is not more than to have a “perfect technique”, it is just not enough!
