New Rules Next Week by Corita Art Center

Author:Corita Art Center
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC

What if her discipline was love?

Following a mentor or teacher opens a window into the painful process of creative work and shows how incremental and bad it often is. Corita’s students chose to follow her even when she assigned hundreds of drawings for homework. These assignments pushed them through the process to teach them discipline and, if they wanted to complete the drawings, to resist perfection—something with the power to halt production altogether. Corita called them to reach, beyond their toil, to a greater discipline.

Corita’s discipline was love for the world and she disciplined herself to express it through art. “Work,” the Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran wrote in his profound poem “On Work,” “is love made visible.”2 Much like her serigraphs, layered with vibrant colors and thought-provoking text, Corita’s life and art were, in the end, not interdisciplinary but inseparable, conveying a heart of love made visible through art.

To be disciplined is to follow in a good way—developing the craft and work ethic required to create. To be self-disciplined is to follow in a better way—finding the greater purpose that animates an artist to endure the hard work of creating. What’s your discipline?

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