A student of the Academy of Fine Arts looked at the painter’s works and said: — Yes, he might have noticed that birds in autumn fly in spiral-like circles and thought: “That’s quite a brush!” You can see it clearly in some of his paintings.
An alcoholic looked: — No. You can tell he was an addict, not a man of true talent.
A psychiatrist looked: — Perhaps talent, but without thorough diagnostic research, it’s impossible to say. It could also be a distortion of colour perception in manic depression.
Then a businessman looked: — That doesn’t matter to me. What counts is whether it will sell well someday.
Finally, the author of the online course Painting and You — START looked: — Yes, he might have used true talent, if he recognized his sensitivity to colour and then chose to use it to create beautiful paintings — because he made the decision to devote himself to art.
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And you? How do you see talent? Is it a gift, a choice, or something that only reveals itself in the eyes of others?