Stop Generalizing Yourself!

So everyone knows that fashion designers use research for their design, well that to say goes for any designer. However a painting may seem as dull as the brush but as vibrant as the paint where you can capture the history in each little image or small description. On the subject in research, it is very valuable for costume designer to go out and receive research else where other than finding material in a magazine or so.

On stage whether its acting, dancing, singing, whatever just some kind of performing it is not good to be general. Generalizing gets a performer nowhere in what they are trying o reach out to the audience. It makes things a bit difficult to understand whether it’s the audience o even the performer. It is much better to know the material so that it comes to the performer as second nature. Fashion Designer (aka The Ballet of Flowers, (1980) http://www.skotforeman.com/images/photos/fashion_full.jpg.

In way I feel that having figures in colors to signify its gender is a way of being general. Who is it to say that the color pink is meant for females and the color blue is meant for males. This is something that we as a society are used to seeing or working with when growing up. I always wonder why was it like that? Who made up this rule? This is why when I was younger I broke hat rule and my favorite color was green! Okay so back to the paining, I feel that Dalí’s way of reaching out of figures being general was symbolizing the two figures in those colors. Also, both figures are structured in a way where it looks like they are dancing in the back of stage like no one even wants to notice their presence because they are so general where as the huge structure is in the front and more bigger. This figure symbols to me that this dancer has more feeling that they would like to express where they are not so general. However the dark, brown figure of the right of it in the painting shows that that figure can also not be general because no one never chooses brown as there favorite color or of a way of expressing. It also shows to me that this figure was also once colorful but became mixed in because of the fact that they were aging.

My point is that I am trying to get across is that in life or actually in design, you never want to be general. Why? Because you do not want to be in someone else’s shadow.