Gus Van Sant: Mastery Journey
This research paper expands upon the path to Mastery of one of my personal heroes in this, the field of study that I have chosen: Film Making. The Master that I picked is Gus Van Dant along with the story of his journey I will elaborate about the “Keys to mastery” steps; The creative task, the creative mind and the creative breakthrough. Also I will provide an insight on which of the emotional pitfalls my hero my hero might have faced through his carrier. Concluding with a comparison of my hero with another Master of the past which will put us on perspective methods we can use to improve the creativity we all already posses.
At an early age Gus Van Sant family use to move a lot because of his dad work having move to a sixth house already by the time he was only 10-year-old. This sense of rootlessness, a desire to remain in childhood, later helped him morph into a rebellious young man, nonconformist with a mind of his own which crept into the themes of many Wan Sant movies (LoBrutto p.2, 2010). Gus Van Sant love for the art stared with paintings, as he always had his…show more content… At the early age of 16 he was working on Madison Avenue were he ingest LSD 25 now as acid, just to emulate his boss and allegedly this intoxicating experiences expanded his artistic vision and linked him to the hippie subculture (LoBrutto p.3, 2010). I consider this to be related to the emotional pitfall of dependency for him because in his apprenticeship phase he did something that not necessarily was good for his personal life nor professional development just to look for his Master approval (Green p.203,
