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Natural WomanInspired by the Willendorf fertility Goddess statue, this is the figure of a naked woman, as portrayed within a natural landscape
9:24 PM - 1/1/2008 - comments {0} - post commentStil Life of DeathI thought I would sort of take the concept of the still life in a different direction as well as put my own macabre touch upon things. So it is a still life of death.
9:21 PM - 1/1/2008 - comments {0} - post commentAncient EveningsThis is one of my faveorite sketches. It is Anubis in a sort of surreal desert background.
9:19 PM - 1/1/2008 - comments {0} - post commentAbstract Self-PortraitWell I got my digital camera so I can start displaying some of my artwork here. I will post some of my faveorites here, but the bulk of my work will now be posted over on my DA gallery which has a link in the link sections. This is an abstract self-portrait.
9:12 PM - 1/1/2008 - comments {0} - post commentJerry UelsmannI think I have found a new faveorite artisit, as part of my final for my class we had to choose one 20th century artist in any meduim, and choose a work of thiers as seen in a musueum with our own eyes, and anayzlize they work, and in addtion we needed a short bio on the arist and some quote in which he is talking about his intentions as an artist, so I saw this cool photo that was sort of surreal in this musueum, by this artist I have not previously heard of, named Jerry Uelsmann, and he is just amazing. I started looking up infromaiton on him, and his art is unbelivable, he was doing photomanipulations before there were digital cameras and photoshop and other such bits of technology. I thought this image was particuarly stunning
12:20 PM - 5/13/2007 - comments {0} - post commentChasing SexWhy is it that it seems people must see sex everywhere, and most particuarly I am talking about in art, be it visual painted art, or the literary arts. It seems that people most always find within hidden messages of carnal desires, homoeroctisim, and the artist trying to release in someway some repressed sexul need that cannot or is not acted out in the acutal real world. It seems that people see every blank canvas or page as a source of releasing some preverbial orgasim. Perhaps it is simply that art has always offered a certain freedom, a way for people to say through hidden message and symbolism things that they know they could not outwardly express, art has always provided the medium to push the boundries, but this does not mean that behind ever painting, or within every word there is some carnality laying in wait.
As I have mentioned before, I am currently taking an online class in the history of Amercian art, and I have been reading the book and as I have mentioned the book is intresting, but there has been more then one occasaion in which some painting or another is artibuted to expressing some sexual meaning behind it. And granted in both paintings, novels and poetry alike their can be found in some caseses som blatannt or even not so blantent inuendou. But that does not mean this must always be the case, and in some cases I feel as if it is not, and that people are just seeing what they want to see, and overeaching. Or perhaps they are not seeing the artists thoughts within but seeing thier own. And this is not just the modern mind, this is not just the sex-obcessed people of today looking back and reading into things, and it is not just the opininon of the author of the book. But rather in most cases it is the author quoting what art critics of the day had to say about the art. It is what men from the same era of the art viewing it in its present not in its past.
At the risk of sounding clique, cannot a cigar simply just be a cigar, most it always be a phalic symbol or some repressed oral fixation. Cannot a painting of a man in a boat on a storm sea just be a painting of a man in a boat upon a stormy sea?
This does leave me with the question, I wonder for the artist, and I gather it would depend upon each individual artist and where they come from, what they are after. What would be worse, to be excelled to a state of genuis becasue the public and the critics have completely misunderstood your work and turned it into something it never was, missing your entire message and thus taking the painting out of your control and transforming into something beyound you. Or to have people understand your work and take it at face vaule, and then judge it as unworthy. 7:13 PM - 4/23/2007 - comments {1} - post commentSomething to Chew onIt Utne the magazine I have more then one refered to here, they have this section at the back where they feature the work of a new artist each issue, and it is usually always something unconventional and inovative in someway, and in the issue I am currently reading (I am a little behind and backed up) they are featuring this artist Ben Wilson, who paints on pieces of discarded gum that have just been thrown down upon the sidewalk and left there, and he does make very neat and colorful desgins and images, and it would be really cool actually to see a whole sidewalk that is just full of these brightly colored images of all different shapes, and sizes, and each one different from the other, I do think it is an intresting idea, and a sort of nice way to try and sort of beautify the city from the left over litter of other people and would probaly brighten the moods of those whom passed and offer something of a conversation peice, but a part of me has got to wonder, who would want to be the person that paints on old, chewed up, trampled on gum, as neat as it looks, I do not think that I could or would do that.
I decied to search on line to see if I could find any sampels of his work, and I acutally did, they are neat I have to admit, and it is cool even if slightly distrubing that he does this
11:03 AM - 3/29/2007 - comments {0} - post commentPhotograhsI have always been fascinated with the photograph, the snapshot, and I have written poetry before exploring this idea. There is something myserious and fascinating about it. I cannot help but to wonder just what was going on in that moment that was captured, and what is the untold story behind? A photo might offer some clues and there might be some people, historians, invesitogators, and others that learn from photos, but for me they have always offered more questions. Who are these people and what is the truth behind the scene captured in the lens? What are those smiling faces really thinking about? What are they concealing?Then recently I have read in Utne about this new sort of art, in which people have began collecting old photos that have been found, weather it be just upon the street, or stocked away forogotten about in an attic and rediscovered again, and I could not help but to take an intrest. There is thie website www.moderna.org/looktatme, which I have linked on the right hand side of my blog called Look At Me, in which people can submit photogrpahs that are then posted on the website for others to view. And there are a few rules/restsictions to submited photos. The photo must be at least 25 years old, it cannot be a personal photo, it should not be taken by a professional, and it should be a photo that was found in some way. It really he quite intresting, and though each photo tells its own story, I cannot help but to wonder about the story beneath that story, the story that does untold. 4:20 PM - 1/14/2007 - comments {0} - post commentA Work Never DoneIt has been said
A poem is never finished, only abandoned. ~Paul Valéry
And while I do not know if I always find this to be true in the case of poetry, I must say that never could words so true be spoken of art, that is the viusal art, painting in particular. It is the curse of the artist, that one must never find complete satsifiaction with ones work, but must simply reach a point where you know the time is to just step away.
I have currently been working on this new place, and though the main peice itself I am happy with the way it has turned out, I had this idea of a border to paint around the peice, and what I originaly had in mind did not work out quite the way I thought invisioned and so I had to abort that plan and try another, but still as I look I cannot help but to feel there is something missing and that there could be more.
It is the bane to try and find that balance between not enough, just right, and too much, for you do not want to overcrowd and go hay wire untill it becomes so busy it detracts from itself, but at the same time, how an artist does so dislike to see blank space just sitting there and not be utilitized in some way.
An artist is ever ruled by that feeling of something being missing, and yet not knowing just what that something is, it is as if the canvas and the paint are living breathing thing being crafted and you its creator, and so it is curcial not to leave it unfinnished and when that momeent comes and suddnely you see just what it was that has been left out, the last finnishing touch to completion that is an epiphany for the arist, and to be able to stand back and look at the creation aware of its now fullness and completion is europhoric as it is such a rare gem. 3:19 PM - 1/13/2007 - comments {0} - post comment |
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