I can't believe ya'll are gonna hold out on not discussing the book at all or really adding anything else to the discussion. We only have 5 class periods left. The way I had it set up was there were 10 opportunities for class discussion on the blog. I know that everyone thinks the blog is hard and that facebook would be easier but it's IDENTICAL. . You have to put your email and password into both. Why not make the blog your homepage until the end of the semester? If you don't have 10 comments on the blog about the book, art or culture you will not get full credit for the class discussion portion of the class and may comprimise you're grade.
Recap: Your first two shows have been AWESOME (great job). Sketchbook show install is next Monday from 5-6pm at Simple G's. You should have your sketchbooks and your 10 Artist trading cards ready to hang for the show on Weds. December 2nd. Start the FACEBOOK and MYSPACE events now to have a HUGE SHOW AT THE END. WORK WORK WORK on your sketchbooks and art cards. Let me know if I can help in anyway. Ya'll are doing great. Now is the time to push. You can relax over Christmas.
Later,
mikewindy
Mike you kill me... this blog and any other will never replace facebook. It is a strange and sad addiction... however, I will try harder to post. I think we should have the same band play for the sketchbook viewing and that tonight we should come up with a name so we can make posters over break and a facebook group. The Sertoma show was a lot of fun. Snikes I need to pick up my sink still!!!! Welp see everyone tonight. -Jennie
ReplyDeleteI concur Jennie, we should come up with a name for the show tonight. Is it really only a week til the show??? OMG
ReplyDeleteWooo next chapter commentary. DRUMROLL PLEASE...
ReplyDeleteCan i just say i love the quote "Maybe the screwed-up ball of paper is always a sculpture, or always art. Or it goes back to being only paper again when no one is looking at it or if theyre looking at it but not realizing it art."
The concept of art is so complex. What is art? What isn't? Who decides? The artist? The viewer? What's fair?
The Minimalist movement is so fascinating to me, not because of really what it is (there obviously really isn't much fascinating about a ball of paper) but the questions that it raises for me, as well as the mixed emotions that are caused. At first, maybe, I'm interested about the piece. Then I might realize it's actually just a ball of paper. Then I'm frustrated that it really is JUST A STUPID BALL OF PAPER. But in the end, I'll realize that the whole process has something to do with the art itself.
ALSOOOOO....side question, if you were a romance novel, what would you be called?
I'm thinking consensus is the common theme when it comes to a group agreeing on perception.(art? not art)
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ReplyDeleteKeeping the book alive. I heard Dave Hickey say something that supports what Russell said though he was talking about the $ value of Art. It's what people in a given community will pay for it. It's interesting that a ball of paper can be art in one city but not in another. Even in places where there are a lot of folks thinking about art you can still have disparities in concensus. Some artist are taken seriously in Houston but not in Chicago or Oslo but not in Marfa. There whole life's work is a ball of paper. Sometimes being art other times being ignored.
I feel like anything that someone has combined thoughtfulness and effort is art because it is given an energy. Energy spent is energy gain. Basically the way i tie my shoes is art. capeash? The successfulness and amount of energy invested is what deciphers value.
ReplyDeleteI really liked reading the chapt Lovely Lovely. It really helped me question my own work and ask myself what am I trying to achieve. I liked how the author mentions that no artist will ever be nominated for the turner prize for their contribution to loveliness. I also like how he mentions how beauty and loveliness seem to be a property or quality that can never be wholly got rid of. These two statements make me realize, that my goal in making work should not be aimed to just make something pretty or beautiful, which for awhile I think was my goal. The ability to produce something beautiful is quite an amazing and amusing thing. I remember one day it dawned on me after my mother asked me if I could draw anything (or everything?) I began to think well, yes, I suppose I could.. if I really wanted. From then on I began to think what is most attractive to me, what interests me most? I really only focused on people for quite awhile and mostly beautiful women. Maybe because this was a time in my life when models and fashion and celebrities seemed to hold some importance to me and the lifestyle looked so attractive. i think this was also influenced by Andy Warhol who was always one of my favorite artists. And then that became boring and seemed shallow... so I looked around and I realized that to me nature was the most beautiful thing... the most pure and ideal beauty. Something made not by man but by the hand of nature or some unseen force. To me then this was the highest achievement or goal for myself... to recreate or create something after nature's image. Yet I now think.. I am still chasing after this idea of perfection and beauty.. which in the end still seems shallow. Beauty helps make the world a more pleasurable and wonderful place ... but beauty is not only found in the appearance.. its found in relationships... in concepts.. in ugliness... in strangeness or awkwardness... beauty is in the eye of the beholder... this makes me rethink a lot of past decisions and also helps point me in a new direction for my work. The author also states that the human nervous system is tuned to seek out loveliness and beauty and to crave them. Even if my goal is not to make something beautiful I know I myself will somehow transform my work into a creature of beauty even with out intention.. It is inevitable...
ReplyDeleteWell I am reading chapter 3, and I already somewhat. dissagree with what Matthew Collings is saying about Matisse and Picasso in the first part, not thinking of them as much in modern art and how they dont really fit in and just in general. I personally think about these artists. I love Matisse, ive talked about him! But I do get how some that might be more experianced in the art world wouldnt think about the 2 artists when thinking about in terms of modern art. I liked the question the author asked, "Is beauty in art simply a matter of art not being so abstract all the time?". According to Pre-Modern art from Rahpeal and back, there was no abstract, beauty was realistic and idealized. Collings has an approch that the "ugliness" of Modern art first came from the idea of beauty, "the theme of beauty." This made me think of artists who had copied a piece of art, mostly paintings and had twisted them to become this abstract representation. I still feel there is still that beauty because i think back to the original work.
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