2 weeks to go. Have a great break.
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Questions to consider in revising Artist Statement
1. What motivates me to make art?
What inspires my creative process?
2. What elements of my work are most important to me?
-materials, emotions, technique, form, politics, spirituality, color, scale, clarity, nature, memory, beauty, function, etc.
What is the significance to me of the elements that I've identified as important?
3. What sensations and emotions do I experience when making a work of art?
What are my sources of gratification? Of frustration.
4. How does my mind work while I am creating?
What Kinds of decisions do I make?
5. From the perspective of craft, what steps do I go through in making a work?
6. What artists and/or works of art have most inspired me and/or influenced me?
With whose Art do I feel the greatest Kinship?
7. How has my work developed or changed over time or throughout this course)?
8. What would I like viewers of my work to experience when looking at my work?
What kind of responses would I like them to have?
9. If somebody else had made my work and I saw it for the first time, what questions would I like them to have?
10. What are my hopes, plans or ideas for future work?
11. What do I think the role of artists in society should be?
What would I like my role in society to be...(any)
What inspires my creative process?
2. What elements of my work are most important to me?
-materials, emotions, technique, form, politics, spirituality, color, scale, clarity, nature, memory, beauty, function, etc.
What is the significance to me of the elements that I've identified as important?
3. What sensations and emotions do I experience when making a work of art?
What are my sources of gratification? Of frustration.
4. How does my mind work while I am creating?
What Kinds of decisions do I make?
5. From the perspective of craft, what steps do I go through in making a work?
6. What artists and/or works of art have most inspired me and/or influenced me?
With whose Art do I feel the greatest Kinship?
7. How has my work developed or changed over time or throughout this course)?
8. What would I like viewers of my work to experience when looking at my work?
What kind of responses would I like them to have?
9. If somebody else had made my work and I saw it for the first time, what questions would I like them to have?
10. What are my hopes, plans or ideas for future work?
11. What do I think the role of artists in society should be?
What would I like my role in society to be...(any)
Excercises for improving Artist Statement
BE HONEST. It matters not what you make, but rather how you make.
1. Write a detailed description of your ideal studio.
2. Use the portrait of yourself to write about the following:
- what you see when you look at the self portrait.
- what you think other people would see if they looked at it.
-what the portrait doesn't show about you.
3. Recount your earliest memory of making art. How does that moment from the past relate to who you are as an artist today?
4. Write an imaginary dialogue or conversation between someone who might not like your work and someone who does.
5. There is an ancient saying(attributed by Plutarch to Simonides of ceos that poetry is a speaking picture and painting is a silent or mute poem.
For this exercise, imagine that your work is not silent. Imagine it can speak. What would it say? To whom would it have something to say? Write a monologue whose speaker is your visual work.
6. Write an imaginary interview. It could be a reporter doing a piece for the school newspaper or The New York Times. It could be a filmaker making a documentary about you. It could be a writer from an art magazine doing a feature about you.
7. Select a work of non-visual art (a poem, a piece of music, a dance) and write about parallels between that work and your own visual art.
1. Write a detailed description of your ideal studio.
2. Use the portrait of yourself to write about the following:
- what you see when you look at the self portrait.
- what you think other people would see if they looked at it.
-what the portrait doesn't show about you.
3. Recount your earliest memory of making art. How does that moment from the past relate to who you are as an artist today?
4. Write an imaginary dialogue or conversation between someone who might not like your work and someone who does.
5. There is an ancient saying(attributed by Plutarch to Simonides of ceos that poetry is a speaking picture and painting is a silent or mute poem.
For this exercise, imagine that your work is not silent. Imagine it can speak. What would it say? To whom would it have something to say? Write a monologue whose speaker is your visual work.
6. Write an imaginary interview. It could be a reporter doing a piece for the school newspaper or The New York Times. It could be a filmaker making a documentary about you. It could be a writer from an art magazine doing a feature about you.
7. Select a work of non-visual art (a poem, a piece of music, a dance) and write about parallels between that work and your own visual art.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
images: self portraits
as you look at/ "read" these SELF PORTRAIT IMAGES do you get any feeling from the medium, the mark, the figure/ground relationship?
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=self+portraits&qpvt=self+portraits&FORM=IGRE#x0y0
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=self+portraits&qpvt=self+portraits&FORM=IGRE#x0y0
SELF PORTRAITS DUE @ MUSEUM
Hi Draftsmen and Draftswomen or Drawers:
We will be meeting at the U of Iowa Museum @ the IMU for Monday Nov 14 class session.
*come prepared to draw
*bring self-portrait homework ready to present. Explain/describe how it relates to your final project using the following guidelines and other criteria that you may discover/formulate....
1. WHAT IS THE NATURE OF YOUR SELF PORTRAIT AS PRESENTATION.
examples: documentation(of...), celebration(of...), Masterbation(about????) ETC ETC, be creative, find a form of your thought ending in -TION.
2. Does the medium and/or gesture of your mark support your Expression?explain.
3. Does the Expression on your face react to the idea, attempt to tell the idea or oppose the idea or otherwise?how?
4. Are you confronting, confounding or otherwise engaging the viewer with your expression?how?
5. Figure ground relationship- does the placement of your self-portrait on the page support your idea? THE SCALE? Close up/far away? upside-down?
Good Luck, see you at the museum, to talk a bit about presentation.
We will be meeting at the U of Iowa Museum @ the IMU for Monday Nov 14 class session.
*come prepared to draw
*bring self-portrait homework ready to present. Explain/describe how it relates to your final project using the following guidelines and other criteria that you may discover/formulate....
1. WHAT IS THE NATURE OF YOUR SELF PORTRAIT AS PRESENTATION.
examples: documentation(of...), celebration(of...), Masterbation(about????) ETC ETC, be creative, find a form of your thought ending in -TION.
2. Does the medium and/or gesture of your mark support your Expression?explain.
3. Does the Expression on your face react to the idea, attempt to tell the idea or oppose the idea or otherwise?how?
4. Are you confronting, confounding or otherwise engaging the viewer with your expression?how?
5. Figure ground relationship- does the placement of your self-portrait on the page support your idea? THE SCALE? Close up/far away? upside-down?
Good Luck, see you at the museum, to talk a bit about presentation.
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