So everyone should get two one dollar food items from the dollar store and also roll with your creativity the evening of the event. We will meet at 4:45pm at the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum(CEAM).
The 2x4 project has officially changed. On Monday we will take a look at the small(8inch 1in=1ft) pieces that each of you are working on. This should give you some ideas about the larger project.
Also read the next 10 pages of the book and post about it. SKETCHBOOKS!!!!!!!!!!!!(friendly reminder)
Good class tonight,
mikewindy
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I think Mike may have just named our simple gestures show!!!!
ReplyDeleteSculpture One Coffee Club Proudly Presents>>>>>>
"A DELIGHTFUL COUP"
It has a lovely ring to it!!!!
i concur. and who doesn't love a coup afterall?
ReplyDeleteI was reading the book at CVS and some guy was trying to look at it to figure out what it was about. I thought it was funny because I was just reading the paragraph, where it says that:"When we see someone reading a book, we want to know what they are reading." - how it relates to the back of the canvas. I thought it was interesting when he said ideas determine what we see, so new ideas seem to materialize subjects out of thin air. Its like when my boyfriend drove a white mitsubishi, that was like the only car I saw out of all of the others for that time. -Christine
ReplyDeleteA Delgihtful Coup.... I third the notion
ReplyDelete“In visual art there is a history of noticing. Or rather a history of making visible what has been seen but not looked at.”
ReplyDeleteEven in the most catastrophic wreckage, I stop to do a head count and realize we’re all here. Everything is right. Hours upon hours of mirror conversations say it so, and if you’re not putting it down, then shame on you for such selfishness. We are born seers, and may we all die sayers with not a penny in our pockets but a multitude of wealth in the words we’ve strung together for the next generation of visionaries.
And how did they find themselves so entangled in this web? If that were me looking in on something so positively self-assured, I’d find the nearest book of unlined paper and take notes. So that’s the difference between you and me, them and you, me and the rest of the world. So self-possessed and amused by the categorically opposing definitions of just one word, I do sometimes struggle with sword and shield, balancing them with the torn covers, the ink stains, and this meager cup of white, granulated sugar. It’s a neighborly thing, and if I have hope, I concede it all to everyone in life finding just that. And what is any of this without hope.
No one ever appreciates the utility of a ribbon hole, but some of us do, in deed, look to the future and remember the days of wood splinters and now seemingly futile bits that blend into the ground and alter the reflection in your eyes this eve. When you look out onto that horizon, brace yourself, for all that I’ve known is unrepentantly staring back at you. I may be mad, but in truth, I stand neither here nor there. It’s some place in between, and I can bring you to your feet to see as I do see. Lie still, breathe deeply, and let down your hands when you’ve come to photograph this place. Let down your hands, and you’ll know that these are the images one never forgets. Let down your hands, and might you see for the very first time?
I really like that the O'Deherty delves into the subject of the studio more in these ten pages. He makes some really interesting points. The artist becomes the medium, but eventually comes full circle as the means the medium most go through to create art. And the idea that art and the studio make things visible that most do not look at. I think those are important because art is in our lives to make something apparent and appear to an audience. If that happens in the studio or the gallery or both, the point of seeing something through another set of eyes is still there.
ReplyDelete"The studio as social center, as incubator of new ideas, as revolutionary cell, as chuch of a new religion, as tradesman’s workroom, as conventional enclosure of received ideas, as home of a cult, as production factory (including display of product), as clinical, clean kitchen, as chaotic attic, as site of experiment, as lair of the solitary hero."
O'Deherty emphasizes that the studio can be whatever the artist envisions it to be or what they need the space to be. That in itself is a creative process of making art.
I think it is also important that the author says the artist becomes an intruder in their own space. Artists constantly changes their space and change what that space means. Each time an artist enters their space they take on a new outlook, ultimately feeling somewhat foreign within their own studio.
I think O'Deherty has really interesting views about how the artist interacts with a space and how that space is effected.
Okay, I'm finally bloggin about the reading.
ReplyDeleteSo one thing that spoke to me, that may seem kinda lame to others, is when he was saying art is about noticing things we see everyday. He said it is like hearing but not listening. For those who don't know,which is pretty much everybody but Alison, I'm big into photography. The main subject in most of my photo's are common stuff found everywhere but not noticed by most people. Things that hide in plain sight. I believe it is our job as artists to bring those hidden items into the eye of the public. To make their purpose and bauty known.
I guess I'm attracted to this concept because so many people are seen everyday but go unnoticed for their whole lives.
I used to fade into the crowd, if you want to try to imagine that about me for a second, so maybe I'm a little bias. You be the judge.
And I just saw Ashley's blog, who wrote about the same thing only better, but whatever I'm still posting this.
Cap'n Gabbie out.......
have ring doesn't book third is about
ReplyDeleteWell, I Have no idea what you just said mike. It baffles me.
ReplyDeleteBut anyways, I read the addition 10 pages on saturday while i was soaking in some sun rays on my back porch. Because i am a sun slut. It is difficult for me to really get into this book. So far it has been talking about stuff I learned in Art history 3, which I was not a big fan of that class other than the teacher was funny. Still escaping the idea of the traditional white box.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles do sommer sults at midnight.
"When a major artist recognizes the value of the unimportant and the ignored." Somehow this statement reminded me of a reading we had to do for the New York trip, "Puzzles about Art: An Aesthetics’ Casebook." In it the question is asked: If an artist gives a museum curator a piece of driftwood found while walking on the beach; is it art? The question was supposed to be in inquiry into the definition of art. Driftwood is something that is something relatively unimportant. When I originally read Puzzles I thought it was word vomit. However after thinking about in it terms of a “history of noticing,” I think that driftwood could be art.
ReplyDeletei guess i'll blog on the reading already.
ReplyDeletei feel this guy is repeatative. he's already said all this in the first 5 pages. he's eloquent, but condescending. i don't feel like i have anything new to say on this passage that wasn't addressed in the first discussion.
Just read up to page 20. I also feel like ODoherty is very redundant in his thinking. He does say some interesting things that I would never be able to think of myself. I think the idea that" imaginations chamber is the studio" is a perfect example of any art museum. You walk in, take a look at the art, and begin assuming what the artist was thinking. Though most of us think we are right about the idea behind the art, we most definitely are always wrong. That, to me is the cool part ya know. Its like, here is a painting of family...they all seem happy..the kids not paying attention. Alright...got it. But when you actually find out about all the true symbolism in the art, it will come to life and really have an affect on your thoughts about it.
ReplyDeleteI also love how ODoherty said that the brush can be stronger than the pen. It can be political, historical...and have an extremely witty mystery to it.
The view of personal spaces as art is hard for me to truly understand. I am a very visual person and just by reading this, it's difficult to wrap my head around it. But what I would think is this personal studio, when placed in the publics eyes is a way for them to see the reality of the artist and his work, through his eyes.
Augh ok all this thinking is making me exhausted.
cheers