How to create your masterpiece

Описание: How do artists arrive at a masterpiece? Does it come from nothing, or from the unique variety of their knowledge and experiences?

In this extraordinary panel discussion co-hosted with MTArt Agency, three visual artists explore the preparation, research, and adventure that lies behind the creation of a major work of art. From Shaolin Kung Fu to Yoruba mythology, from psychoanalysis to quantum physics, these artists reveal the polymathic practices that fuel their image-making.

"The journey of my masterpiece is actually the result of my expansion. I'm not separating myself from the work."

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📚 KEY MOMENTS:

00:00 - Introduction: How do artists arrive at a masterpiece?
00:42 - Welcome to the Polymath Festival
01:50 - The subject: Journey to a masterpiece
04:06 - The Industrial Revolution and the split between arts and sciences
05:37 - Delphine Diallo: 11 years empowering Black women through photography
08:46 - Mahtab Hussain: Humanizing the South Asian and British Muslim experience
11:47 - Àsìkò: A love letter to the Nigerian story
14:19 - Arts and humanities vs. arts for art's sake
17:49 - Creating safe spaces for emergence
18:45 - Delphine: Shaolin Kung Fu, Qigong, and shamanic practices
23:22 - Àsìkò: Marrying science, faith, and Yoruba culture
27:20 - Mahtab: Art history, psychoanalysis, and anthropology
31:21 - Personal sovereignty vs. corporate identity
39:07 - The journey to mastery (not just the masterpiece)
40:02 - Delphine: Freedom, ethics, and accessing the divine
48:36 - Mahtab: Anger, shame, and re-education
50:33 - Àsìkò: "Challenge everything you're fed"
55:32 - The polymathic practice behind fine art photography
1:00:40 - Delphine: The masterpiece as self-realization
1:06:30 - Mahtab: "It's not about the mind, it's about the heart"
1:08:58 - Is art knowledge?
1:15:15 - "The vision of one is not the vision. The vision of many is the vision."

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🎨 ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

ÀSÌKÒ is a UK-based Nigerian conceptual artist who explores his ideas within photography and film. His stories are an anthology of his emotional state at an intersection with culture and identity, a love letter to the African story, celebrating the beauty of diverse stories and womanhood. He holds a chemistry degree and worked in pharmaceuticals before becoming an artist.

DELPHINE DIALLO is a Brooklyn-based French and Senegalese visual artist and photographer who graduated from the Académie Charpentier School of Visual Art, Paris. She combines artistic language with activism, empowering women, youth, and cultural minorities through visual provocation. She trained in Shaolin Kung Fu for seven years and incorporates shamanic practices into her work.

MAHTAB HUSSAIN is a British artist who explores the significant relationships between identity, heritage, and displacement. He worked in museums for 10 years before becoming an artist, studied art history, and uses portraiture to challenge prevailing concepts of multiculturalism and to humanize the British Muslim experience.

🎙️ MODERATOR:

PAUL GLADSTONE REID is a Composer and Social Entrepreneur applying Creative Intelligence and Cultural Leadership practices from Arts and Humanities. He applies a Systems and Cybernetic approach to catalyse breakthroughs in science, technology, and human capabilities.

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🖼️ ABOUT MTART AGENCY:

MTArt Agency is a talent agency representing contemporary visual artists. They discover and develop the next generation of artists, providing career management, funding, and access to the art world.

Learn more: https://www.mtart.agency/

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