Nan Goldin
Disclosing Biography-Unabridged and Uncensored
pages 198-205
"'The camera is as much of my everyday life as talking or eating or sex,' she explains. 'The instant photographing, instead of creating distance, is a moment of clarity and emotional connection for me.'" I completely understand and agree with her quote here. Personally, even when I don't have a camera on me, I am constantly seeing life in moments of "stills". My mind runs like a camera, sometimes a still camera sometimes a video camera, constantly trying to capture every little detail. But I see the world in a very particular way, and I have this sense of relief when I can actually photograph life, and especially when it matches what I am seeing in my head. The article goes on to describe the camera as similar to a diary to Nan Goldin, and I can understand that analogy. Even when I posing people or situations it's still my view, similar to a diary. I think I am connecting to this reading and her work because it is all so personal. She wants to hold on to everything, much like I do. I find myself agree with most of her quotes and direction, even though there are obvious aesthetic differences to our photographs. The article made me realize that in my photographs (although I don't choose to highlight it) there is still the underlying interest in mental illnesses, be it my own or my subjects. I just don't photograph it in such an obvious way. Overall, this article was inspiring, and really made me think about my own work.
Friday, February 28, 2014
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Week Six
Inspiration
THESE ARE SELF PORTRAITS by Andy Alcala
THESE ARE SELF PORTRAITS by Andy Alcala
OH MY GOSH HIS ENTIRE WEBSITE
http://andyalcala.com/
And two more of Andy's because seriously, these are amazing
My Work:
Before/After (Still in Progress?)
Friday, February 21, 2014
Week Five Response
94-101
Imposing Corporal Punishment
Arnaldo Morales
"Miraculously, Arnaldo Morales's brain did not explode after an attacker held a loaded gun to his head and fired." EXCUSE ME WHAT? I immediately stopped and knew that this was the reading for the week after this sentence. I get a little confused reading this in the beginning, because he talks about being more responsible with life...but he moves into a violent neighborhood to study these people? Isn't that a little contradictory? (I do think it's super cool what he did, though. The whole anthropologist/artist lifestyle. I would love to do something like that. But I'm a white female.) I love the concepts behind his sculptures. I like how his studio is described more as a laboratory of a mad inventor. This entire section just made me see the connection between art and science and anthropology even more, all things that I am interested in personally. This artist used his experience to bring psychology and art closer together, but they are already so intertwined. He is highlighting this aspect, that science/psychology and art go together so well. Human experiences and reactions are linked to art, so he literally made it a part of his art. I love it!
Imposing Corporal Punishment
Arnaldo Morales
"Miraculously, Arnaldo Morales's brain did not explode after an attacker held a loaded gun to his head and fired." EXCUSE ME WHAT? I immediately stopped and knew that this was the reading for the week after this sentence. I get a little confused reading this in the beginning, because he talks about being more responsible with life...but he moves into a violent neighborhood to study these people? Isn't that a little contradictory? (I do think it's super cool what he did, though. The whole anthropologist/artist lifestyle. I would love to do something like that. But I'm a white female.) I love the concepts behind his sculptures. I like how his studio is described more as a laboratory of a mad inventor. This entire section just made me see the connection between art and science and anthropology even more, all things that I am interested in personally. This artist used his experience to bring psychology and art closer together, but they are already so intertwined. He is highlighting this aspect, that science/psychology and art go together so well. Human experiences and reactions are linked to art, so he literally made it a part of his art. I love it!
Saturday, February 15, 2014
Week Four Reading
Communicating Through Inexpressiveness
Lorna Simpson
262-267
This is the first chapter that I've read that I've really had a problem with.
The author tries to make the point that "Lorna Simpson demonstrates that artists are not obliged to express attitudes" but then goes on to describe the attitude of the photographs? By making the photographs black and white instead of color she is still setting a mood, an attitude. I guess mostly I just had a problem because I feel like most of the reading was trying to defend that original statement, but by doing so all it did was prove that Simpson still made necessary stylistic choices that every artist has to make, and in doing that, she still puts an attitude in her photographs. Every artist does that at least a little bit, I feel like it's inevitable. I just felt like the entire reading was constantly contradicting itself, even throughout into the last paragraph.
Lorna Simpson
262-267
This is the first chapter that I've read that I've really had a problem with.
The author tries to make the point that "Lorna Simpson demonstrates that artists are not obliged to express attitudes" but then goes on to describe the attitude of the photographs? By making the photographs black and white instead of color she is still setting a mood, an attitude. I guess mostly I just had a problem because I feel like most of the reading was trying to defend that original statement, but by doing so all it did was prove that Simpson still made necessary stylistic choices that every artist has to make, and in doing that, she still puts an attitude in her photographs. Every artist does that at least a little bit, I feel like it's inevitable. I just felt like the entire reading was constantly contradicting itself, even throughout into the last paragraph.
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Week Four
Lots of inspiration this week. I was getting a lot of ideas, although they didn't exactly pan out. Plans and inspiration and set ups happened more than anything, but at least I got started and this weekend will hopefully be a lot more productive past the setup/planning stage!
(I failed at transfers twice before finally looking up how to do this.)
Work Made:
Friday, February 7, 2014
Week Three Reading Response
102-109
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Providing Free Food
"The transgression that first earned his renown in the art world involved eating." FOOD ARTISTS FOR THE WIN. I saw this and even though I know Rirkrit's work and it's not exactly the type of food art that I do I still got excited. Art always seems to come back to food and the figure. And basically, that's the same for Rirkrit, though he's focusing more on social relationships than the actual physical figure. I guess the only thing about this reading and about Rirkrit's "Art" is that it really starts that conversation of what is art. Is making food for people really art? Is the social interaction the art? Is the performance the art? Is it all the art? Is it really art at all? I feel as though whether his pieces can be argued as art all day long but it doesn't really matter to him, because that's not the point. I agree with the book when it points out that he's not feeding the hungry, he's feeding peoples' need for interaction, for socialization. He's creating these situations for them. I personally think that's the art. But I don't think many others would agree with me that would fall into the realm of art. (But performances are creating social interaction and performances are art and that is what he is doing.)
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Providing Free Food
"The transgression that first earned his renown in the art world involved eating." FOOD ARTISTS FOR THE WIN. I saw this and even though I know Rirkrit's work and it's not exactly the type of food art that I do I still got excited. Art always seems to come back to food and the figure. And basically, that's the same for Rirkrit, though he's focusing more on social relationships than the actual physical figure. I guess the only thing about this reading and about Rirkrit's "Art" is that it really starts that conversation of what is art. Is making food for people really art? Is the social interaction the art? Is the performance the art? Is it all the art? Is it really art at all? I feel as though whether his pieces can be argued as art all day long but it doesn't really matter to him, because that's not the point. I agree with the book when it points out that he's not feeding the hungry, he's feeding peoples' need for interaction, for socialization. He's creating these situations for them. I personally think that's the art. But I don't think many others would agree with me that would fall into the realm of art. (But performances are creating social interaction and performances are art and that is what he is doing.)
Week Three
This week's inspiration was more just to get me out of bed and create because I was sick and having some hard time mentally getting myself to get up and get moving.
(Where is My Mind) This song- and several covers of this song- is almost always an inspiration for me week by week. Has been for years and probably will be for years. However, if you ever here me play it repeatedly...like for FARRR too long, please check on me.
Let's Get Creative
A glimpse into my mind. And process. And inspiration video. Can we tell I might be a little out of it more than usual this week?
http://www.gerhard-richter.com/art/overpainted-photographs/people-74
And then there is Gerhard Richter, who kind of inspired this whole experiment of mixing photography and painting. Check out the entire website! (He actually painting over photographs as well.)
New Work:
What I refer to as my "photography/painting experiments". I really like where they are headed, but I think you can tell, my mind was kind of all over the place this week.
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