Learning to pick out the BIG idea from the mass of other concepts is the goal of Walker in this article.
I deduced from the latter part of this article that rule breaking is another central idea, similar to that which Hickey wrote about. It's almost as if numerous artists and writers believe the time battered phrase "rules are meant to be broken." Who knows? Maybe they are right. In the case of art I agree with the statement. If rules weren't constantly broken in the art world be stuck going to galleries filled with glorified cave drawings. If the artists of past centuries had not set forth to break the mold of their generation, we would not know of the forms to come: cubism, surrealism, impressionism and countless others. I found this idea to be slightly inspiring, even outside of art. There will always be someone ahead of the times, aiming to break that mold and move culture forward.
One thing I would've hoped for from Walker in this article is a paragraph detailing how one chooses a big idea. On the first page we see a generally randomized list of examples but no real thought process into why they are considered to be big ideas as opposed to subjects or themes. It was simple for myself to understand the difference between subject and big idea but I struggled a little more separating themes from big ideas, mainly because there is the opportunity for them to be the same.
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