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| I made this poster for class, a magazine picture is included from ELLE magazine |
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
I keep thinking...
"Truth is sought for its own sake. And those who are engaged upon the quest for anything for its own sake are not interested in other things. Finding the truth is difficult, and the road to it is rough."
-Ibn al-Haytham
Nicely said:
The term "real artist" can be applied to any one who puts their heart and soul into their work. You can look a child’s crayon drawing and see a genuine authenticity and zest for life… It’s all about what the work conveys… No one says you can’t make a profit, but when your "art" doesn’t convey a higher message and its only purpose is to generate revenue you’ve missed the point.
-Ibn al-Haytham
Nicely said:
The term "real artist" can be applied to any one who puts their heart and soul into their work. You can look a child’s crayon drawing and see a genuine authenticity and zest for life… It’s all about what the work conveys… No one says you can’t make a profit, but when your "art" doesn’t convey a higher message and its only purpose is to generate revenue you’ve missed the point.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
appropriation
artist:
Allen Ruppersburg
Gabriel Kuri
Guy Ben-Ner
Brad Adkins
Michael Bowley
Jeremy Deller
Phil Collins
Kenneth Goldsmith
Harrel Fletcher
Allen Ruppersburg
Gabriel Kuri
Guy Ben-Ner
Brad Adkins
Michael Bowley
Jeremy Deller
Phil Collins
Kenneth Goldsmith
Harrel Fletcher
Quote
I work a bit like the Bible, where the doctrine is pronounced in symbolic form, presenting a double aspect ...; it's the sense literal, superficial, figurative, mysterious of a parable.--Paul Gauguin to Andre Fontainas, August 1899
Modernism is art about art. Whereas all of the great art in history is art about life.
"In fact, originality of methods takes precedence over everything else. If something has been done before, or is derivative in any way of anything that was done before, it thereby loses value proportionate to those similarities. In such a "through the looking glass" world, every would-be "artist" is placed in the untenable position of trying to create an entirely new art form in order to be considered relevant.
The sheer glaring reality is that nothing could be more imprisoning, binding, restricting, chaining and shackling than the impossible limitations of modernism and post-modernism, that remove from the would be artist every tool (including training) that could give them the ability to create great works of art. The simple truth is that each and every one of us is capable of thinking of something that has never been done before. Does that make it worth doing and the work of genius?"
that so many seemingly intelligent people have been so easily snookered by the tongue twisting, convoluted, illogic of modernist rhetoric. Clearly for many people it is more important to feel that they are some part of an elitist in-group that is endowed with the special ability to see brilliance where most people see nothing and are afraid to say so. Since most people aren't devoted or educated in fine art, they have successfully intimidated the bulk of humanity into cowering away in silence, feeling foolish for their inability to understand. By having successfully gained control of the institutions of higher learning and the major museums of the world, they have been able to perpetuate their fiction under the guise and force of their power and credentials. The average person shrinks away from believing the reality of their own senses in the face of seemingly overwhelming numbers of people in this 20th century "establishment" who authoritatively dictate what is great art and what they should be seeing.
The sheer glaring reality is that nothing could be more imprisoning, binding, restricting, chaining and shackling than the impossible limitations of modernism and post-modernism, that remove from the would be artist every tool (including training) that could give them the ability to create great works of art. The simple truth is that each and every one of us is capable of thinking of something that has never been done before. Does that make it worth doing and the work of genius?"
that so many seemingly intelligent people have been so easily snookered by the tongue twisting, convoluted, illogic of modernist rhetoric. Clearly for many people it is more important to feel that they are some part of an elitist in-group that is endowed with the special ability to see brilliance where most people see nothing and are afraid to say so. Since most people aren't devoted or educated in fine art, they have successfully intimidated the bulk of humanity into cowering away in silence, feeling foolish for their inability to understand. By having successfully gained control of the institutions of higher learning and the major museums of the world, they have been able to perpetuate their fiction under the guise and force of their power and credentials. The average person shrinks away from believing the reality of their own senses in the face of seemingly overwhelming numbers of people in this 20th century "establishment" who authoritatively dictate what is great art and what they should be seeing.
"If you take the time to understand Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, Colorfield, Pop-art, Op-art etc. you will find clever con game perpetrated by a sophisticated gang of public relations experts that figured out a great tactic to make millions."
Monday, October 24, 2011
What do these have incommon?
Why do these pictures move me?
theres some kind of weird dramatization about the people in the images right?
Hair Project
Monday, October 17, 2011
New Project
This is the second project I am working on, I sketched this little figure last night. It is a mix of shapes, leafy shapes, and human teeth.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
John Berger
This is a quote from a video I was watching on youtube. I thought it was an interesting and amusing perspective.
"Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
this determines not only most relations between men and women
but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman
in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object –
and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.” John Berger
The spectator is often seeing a reflection of themselves perhaps...
"Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
this determines not only most relations between men and women
but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman
in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object –
and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.” John Berger
The spectator is often seeing a reflection of themselves perhaps...
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Stone sculpture
Inspired by Lupe Fiasco Daydreamin'
I will show once its completed.
Its actually almost done I just have to make the flowers tommorrow and I am extremely excited.
x D
I will show once its completed.
Its actually almost done I just have to make the flowers tommorrow and I am extremely excited.
x D
Contemporary Artist Leah Tinari
I have worked days researching Leah Tinari, she captivated me with her lines and use of color. I have found that she has an unusual optimisim about the characters her in her work which I feel is really really suprising. However considering they are her friends and family, can you blame her? From what I researched she has not done art for years. She recently opened a resturant named FATTA CUCKOO, I hope that she finds a herself being re inspired to do art that is more relevant to todays popular culture. I would love to see it! Here is a extremely comprehensive compliation of her work, seriously took me hrs to find! 

my favorite of her work, she just captures character
portrait by friend
in studio notice the champagne
Leahs inspiration Eric Fischl
interview by mixed greens
Leahs inspiration: Lucian Freud
Leahs inspiration: Max Beckmann
Comparable to Toulouse Latrec
Inspired by Alice Neel
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