Twyla Tharp’s “Creative Autobiography”

-

 Twyla Tharp’s “Creative Autobiography” 

This is a great reflection exercise that puts you in touch with your own creative experiences. 


Please answer the following questions: 


1. What is the first creative moment you remember? 

  • My seventh birthday, painting in a studio across the Pantheon, in Rome Italy. I was doing a copy of Henry Matisse's "The Goldfish" from 1912.




2. Was anyone there to witness or appreciate it? 

  • Yes my mom.


3. What is the best idea you've ever had? 

  • Usually when I have a great idea, it's for art. I get very happy when it turns out how I want it too.


4. What made it great in your mind? 

  • The inspiration


5. What is the dumbest idea? 

  • Water polo


6. What made it stupid? 

  • What even is happening in water polo? Like what. Keep it on land people.


7. Can you connect the dots that led you to this idea? 

  • It wasn't my idea.


8. What is your creative ambition? 

  • I strive to be better than the old me


9. What are the obstacles to this ambition? 

  • Its hard


10. What are the vital steps to achieving this ambition? 

  • Trying and being mentally able


11. How do you begin your day? 

  • By waking up


12. What are your habits? What patterns do you repeat? 

  •  breakfast, exercise, lunch, dinner, etc.

13. Describe your first successful creative act. 

  • Im not sure I remember it

14. Describe your second successful creative act.

  • Im not sure I remember it

15. Compare them. 

  • Im not sure I remember it

16. What are your attitudes toward: money, power, praise, rivals, work, play? 

  • Money-cool, I wouldn't mind sone
  • Power- that would be nice
  • Praise- Love that
  • Rivals- hate them, would dump cat litter in their bed
  • Work- I actually like working
  • Play - playing is fun and relaxes you


17. Which artists do you admire most? 

  • Adonna Khare
_________________________________________________________________________________
  • Diego Fazio
_________________________________________________________________________________
    • Van Gogh
    _________________________________________________________________________________
      • Paul Cadden
      _________________________________________________________________________________
        • Cath Riley
        _________________________________________________________________________________


          18. Why are they your role models? 

          • Because they are who I aspire to be

          19. What do you and your role models have in common? 

          • We are all artists

          20. Does anyone in your life regularly inspire you? 

          • No, not really

          21. Who is your muse? 

          • Anyone around

          22. Define muse. 

          • A person that gives you inspiration {in any way}

          23. When confronted with superior intelligence or talent, how do you respond? 

          • I learn from them

          24. When faced with stupidity, hostility, intransigence, laziness, or indifference in others, how do you respond? 

          • Walk away and distance myself

          25. When faced with impending success or threat of failure, how do you respond? 

          • I start planning on how to fix it

          26. When you work, do you love the process or the result? 

          • Both

          27. At what moments do you feel your reach exceeds your grasp? 

          • Im not sure

          28. What is your ideal creative activity? 

          • Painting with music

          29. What is your greatest fear? 

          • not making an impact

          30. What is the likelihood of either of the answers to the previous two questions happening? 

          • not a lot

          31. Which of your answers would you most like to change? 

          • The one below this one


          32. What is your idea of mastery? 

          • When you feel calm in yourself

          33. What is your greatest dream? 

          • To become a great skier and become recognized


          From The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life


          Comments

          Post a Comment

          Popular posts from this blog

          Manifesto - Window to the Soul

          -
          Image
          Window to the soul   My name is Niamh Keating and I am a ninth-grade student at Cheshire Academy. I have lived all around the world and I really enjoy art.    This piece is supposed to represent the view of different people. The squares are representative of windows, differently colored and sized because everyone sees things differently. I titled this piece “Window to the Soul” because there is a saying that ‘your eyes are the window to your soul’.  This piece is special to me because I've always had trouble drawing eyes, but I feel like I finally got it right this time. This is a mixed media piece of artwork. In this piece, I used watercolor, graphite pencils, and pages from a book. I decided to make the quotes from the pages in the book actually mean something instead of putting random words there. I felt like the quotes draw the audience in rather than just random words. I chose to make all the watercolor squares differently shaped and colored because everyone has...
          Read more

          What is creativity?

          -
          Image
            What is Creativity? I think creativity is thinking in a different way. Creativity often comes from within you and around you.  Creativity joins people and makes them see clearer. Creativity starts rebellions and ends them. Creativity turns new ideas and brainstorming into reality.  _____________________________________________________________________________________ Egg  I had to break out of my egg in a divergent way.  The steps: 1. Starts in egg 2. Sits back onto back 3. Backward roll into black widow position I call my position, "The Turtle" and "Stop, Drop and Roll" and "Superhero Pose"
          Read more