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Some of the artistes may possess creative ability also. Their art, as time goes on, attains an individual brilliance because they are capable of giving to their art a richness of their own. If such interpretive artistes who possess only interpretative talent become perforce teachers, their life becomes an artistic tragedy.
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Because they may not possess the necessary patience and critical view to teach others. They may themselves be great exponents but their students will find it difficult to attain their standard, not because of shortcomings, if any, of the students, but because of the lack of teaching capacity in such artistes, the art of teaching is definitely different from the art of interpretation. At best, students of such artists remain second-hand replicas of their teachers, because all their innate individuality and talents will have been destroyed by the mechanical mode of teaching necessarily adopted by teachers of this type.
4. The Artiste Student
The fourth type of artistes may be called the artiste students. Students of this type usually
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remain as students of dance or music all their life. They go from teacher to teacher and try to learn something from each one of them.
They have generally a knack of getting something from every teacher. Their experiences are thus varied and their art has therefore sometimes a rich variety. But as they are wanderers from one firmament to another, their studies are usually incomplete.
The result is, although they possess a rich variety, they fail to attain perfection, |
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