Female Portraits in Art and the Team behind Authorship

By Philip Scott Johnson 500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art Music: Bach's Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Yo-Yo Ma Nominated as Most Creativ...



This fabulous video is a hymn to the creativity of the human soul and an homage to the skilful use of marvelous ‘magic’ technology tools we have at our reach. It is really fascinating to think about its potential possibilities in the future.  However, it is worth to call attention to the fact that behind this finalized beauty are huge amounts of work by the named author and by an innumerous line of contributors whose names are buried in the fog of time and in the anonymous list of individuals without whom this video and this art was not possible.  It is also important to remember that the same fact occurs with every human creation and so much more so at this level of perfection.  The ratio between perfection and work is geometrically exponential – the more perfection the more the spiral of work behind it increases. Our cultural tendency is to recognize and name the tip of the iceberg and forget the acknowledgement or even the existence of the rest of it beneath the water.  Yet everybody knows that the visibility of the tip depends on the support of the base otherwise it would collapse. The same occurs with the creation of art, or any other human creation. Large bases of support are behind all creativity. It is time to bring this awareness to the forefront and recognize, even if it is only implicitly, the team behind the product.