diary / by Edward Mullany

If it is personality, then, that contributes, by way of style, to an artist’s rendering of a subject, the fact that there is only a finite number of subjects in reality for artists to depict is not a significant dilemma. For it is in the nature of personality to be so varied and subtle, across the spectrum from which it can emerge, that any artist in command of their talent will produce, regardless of their subject, a work that is different, in its emotive character or spirit, than that of any other artist. So that what one filmmaker might express about war, for example, will not be the same as what another filmmaker would express about the same subject, though the two might be comparable, and might even be said to be ‘in conversation’ with each other.