208 Square #6

Anatomy

Critique Two

Today we got into groups of three and gave each other feedback about each other's work. Our group was: Sammy, Arjun, and me. The feedback that people gave me were as follows:

• Keep going in the same direction
• My organization really has made the project work

Reaction to Art & Fear, by David Bayles & Ted Orland #2

Conceptual Words:

• What is the artist trying to achieve? 
• Does he/she succeed? 
• Was it worth doing?

Ideas & Technique:

• Provocative art
• Challenges
• Emotional investment
• Direction to reach
• Harder to think of that new idea
• Creating something cool rather than something conceptual/meaningful/intellectual 

Craft:

• Copies
• Art lies embedded in the conceptual leap between places
• Craft are rules/instructions
• Perfection

New Work:

• Evolution of your progress/work
• Old work shows the important issues or the history of yourself
• Progression

Creativity:

• “Nowhere in this book does the dreaded C-word appear” Pg. 100

Habits:

• “Habits are the peripheral vision of the mind.” Pg. 100
• Get a lot of bad press because it is something that the artist is comfortable with
• Habits are imprinted are the all ours?
• Forgery
• Habits are style
• Style is not a virtue

Art & Science:

• Two separate things
• Insight
• Science is control
• Opposite of math, not one answer
• Art: Self expression for the world
• Provocation
• Driven by inspiration
• Desperation
• Relationship
• Conceptual jumps
• View point shifts in perspective
• Self-Reference

Quotations:

• “The answers you get depend on the questions you ask.” - Thomas Khun Pg. 93
• “Yes there is a difference between art and craft.” Pg. 97
• “But is the Mona Lisa really art?” Pg. 97
• “New work doesn’t make the old work false - it makes it more artificial.” Pg. 99
• “When your tool is a hammer everything looks like a nail.”
• “Your growth as the artist is a growth toward fully realizable works - works that become real in full illumination of all the you know. Including all you know about yourself.” Pg. 112

My Side Notes:

• Some artists don’t challenge themselves, they go the route that is safe and that they know well

Questions:

• Is what they are trying to say that it is easier to discover something that already exists? Confused about Pg 96
• Does it take imaginations to craft?

Experimenting With Miniature Photography

     For my final project I am working with mini people so I thought I would experiment with miniature photography. I took one of my photos, blurred some of it and sharpened the saturation.

208 Square #6

Paper Boat

Exhibition Formats

Andy Goldsworthy:
       Andy Goldsworthy manipulates objects from nature to create his pieces. If his pieces were in a gallery then they would seem out of contents/place. Part of its beauty is the picture itself and definitely its setting. These pieces interest me because he didn't really manipulate the nature objects in a way that would destroy them or the setting around it. It is a peaceful way of working and could even be left there to compost and deteriorate. For some reason I really like that idea.

Shepard Fairey:
      Shepard Fairly has a lot of political influence and strong opinions. He isn't afraid to show the world his art and opinions even if it involves getting in a bit of trouble. In most of my work I try to have some sort of meaning or story behind it and to me Shepard Fairey's work is the epitome of that. His work would look good in a museum but having it be outside, susceptible to weather, people, and other wear and tear, has more meaning to it. It's putting himself out there.