I think in many ways "talent" does seem to run in families but not necessarily in the way that you would expect.

I was thinking of the artist Lucian Freud, who has a famous brother - Clement Freud and a famous grandfather Sigmund Freud. The next generation of Freuds - including Emma and Matthew seem to be doing pretty well for themselves too!

I suppose all of the family have "creative thinking" in one shape or another.

THere is a 75% chance that is a hererity thing. In my family no one practices it. THe only person who does is my older brother and I. I noticed it because I actually talked to everyone. Like past generations and no practice certainly because they never had the materials or time, to practice art in any way. Who knows. Oh, have you seen the episode in Ripleys believe it or not, where this guy had no artistic skills and he had an airplane accident and was hit on his right side of his head and all of a sudden he had big time skills he did sculputures, drawings and stuff. That happend to me I was in a car accident and was hit somehow on my right side of my head, it was so severe I almost lost eyesight. That's probably were my art skills were triggered, and I was only six when that happend. SO this another way in which artistic talent comes from.

What do you think about this?

lol that's awesome
brb, gonna bang a hammer on the right side o my head and hope i get some art skills :happy5:

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I think in many ways "talent" does seem to run in families but not necessarily in the way that you would expect.

I was thinking of the artist Lucian Freud, who has a famous brother - Clement Freud and a famous grandfather Sigmund Freud. The next generation of Freuds - including Emma and Matthew seem to be doing pretty well for themselves too!

I suppose all of the family have "creative thinking" in one shape or another.

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no one in my family is into creative arts [m/f+s/brother] nor further afield[ aunts +uncles]
i taught myself how to draw at the late age of 22..from a book[ perspectives.. etc] in prison [boredom= oppertunity]
so i think its a learned thing ,

as for the freud family ,theres an artist and thinker the first freud to become ''somebody'' did he not pave the way for the others to be ''famous''by association ? lucien [thinker ] clement freud , a writer? tv persona?

having a monied background ,surely gives any family oppertuneties, to learn many things like writing and TV [most people have to do real work ] therefore dont have the time for such persuits so miss out on the potential to be the best / very good at something. if we all had the means and oppertunity would the other freuds stand out as they do ,who knows

++ XyzaBELLA + at the end of your comment you should add ˝Don't try this at home!!!˝ hehehe ou i don't know about my talent i kinda have a freaky a bit big big imagination...

Yeah forgot thanks, M-tic uh stillsky your right.. Yeah. :bounce:

I agree with the genetic/ born to be/ hereditary point of view on this. Like many things in life there are people who never had much training in an area but exceeded everyone who had recieved the training. Like football players for example born into families with no footballing ties but they go on to become the best players in the world.

Hereditary... is it the gene pool, or the influence of your surroundings? We could debate that all day, but let's not confuse talent with success! There is a lot of crap getting top dollar, and a lot of "important" critics who have not an ounce of talent. Real talent is often overlooked!
As for the physiological, if the right/left brain phenom is true, I feel safe saying that a brain trauma certainly can cause one to be more creative.(Remember, don't try this at home...xyzaBELLA is an "expert") But remember this... I am a lifelong musician with a 17 year old son who, although being exposed to every nuance of the creative and business side of the industry, never took any interest, never as much as touched the keyboard! About 3 years ago, (and no blows to the head) he picked up a guitar and is now the best lead player I have ever worked with! Why the delay?? (See him at www.siennablu.com)
J. Coleman Miller

I believe the technical skill is something you learn, even though there are people who learn a LOT faster than others... like that kid Akiane you probably heard of.

but the inspiration, the urge to create and the ability to think of new concepts is intrinsic, at least from what I saw. many people can just draw portraits and figures of pretty women/horses/whatever but there's no story behind it. while it might be beautiful, it's not really what I consider amazing art. I guess some people just lack imagination and that's a lot more difficult to train than eyes and hand.