floreat...
Scottie Bowman (bowman@mail.indigo.ie)
Thu, 23 Jul 1998 10:21:49 +0000
Wishy writes: `...My disappointment, though, is tempered
by my feeling (which I've yet to have demonstrated otherwise)
that the majority of an artist's best output comes somewhat
nearer the beginning of a career than the end...'
This question always engaged me as I passed through the various
ages in my own life. (`My God, at this stage, Alexander had
conquered much of Asia.... Tolstoy had already written
War & Peace.... Mozart was DEAD....')
It can only ever be a very subjective judgement but it does seem
to me that different kinds of artist have different optimal periods.
Poets tend to fade early, novelists come to a peak around
their fifties whilst many painters & musicians seem to go on
developing forever.
Examples ?
Scottie B.