An art idea in the hand, is worth 2 in the "Louvre"
If you haven't already guessed it...I love art. But the fact of the matter is once again I'm getting almost to the point of burn out of art. My short time spent in art classes had drastically changed my way to of approaching art, let alone creating it. I haven't picked up a paintbrush seriously in years and I don't think I would in the years to come. It's kinda hard to say what a "good" art idea is. Hell just saying "Interesting" in a critique isn't merely a staller of time but another neutral word to use before you say whether it's crap or not. The most referred artist of our century would probably be Warhol and to anyone with solid praticality as their leading instinct, he had one shitty idea. I think I'm here to somewhat discuss it, not absolutly define it but dicuss it.
For me, making art is more of a cumlation of what I learned "is" art and somewhat making something out of it. Not neceesarily copying it (although that's a story for another time) but more of switching a small twist into the fray. For me, since 99 art has ALWAYS been about society. Perhaps not as a whole, but aspects of society. I have hardly ventured into art ideas without this concept backing it. The more I go into it, the more I hate the fact that I'm somewhat copping out and saying:
"This piece is about society's (___insert plausible rubbish___). And that's what it's about."
The fact of the matter is despite how much I want to get away from it, it still dogs me...I want to do an art project about form or the subject but NOT about society....but I'm digressing. The fact of the matter is to me art is a way to communicate. For a more humourous description, "Art is (social) nit-picking". Why "social" as an option? Take an art history course and you'll find out. The fact of the matter since the invention of the camera thus destroying's art's purpose as "representation of reality" art has been degrading it's form, function etc. into every single permutation of life you can think of. Hence abstract black holes in the middle of gallery floors. That is what art is, nit-picking the hell out of life and communicating it in such a way that the audience "gets it" or doesn't...hopefully the former, yet hopefully the latter.
Now my art ideas are anything beyond practical, and not even CLOSE to something to be brought home to show off to your friends....unless I'm dead, you're goths or Eurotrash and it's 200 years into the future. But I feel that somehow it makes a small "dent" in people's minds to say "Hey this is my message...get it". I'm not so much for form as to social commentary, much like the Seinfeldian ramblings of Kevin Smith, or Seinfeld himself. Yet I want to discover this idea of fun and humour behind my art....and the same time perhaps piss off a few people. But that's my way....I feel that an art project is good on my behalf if:
1. I have acheived my initial plan or produced an alternative/adaption that I internally accept
2. I have my friends like it and praise the living daylights out of my while I act modest to get more compliments (I'm such a bastard)
3. I felt that this idea was totally mine, with NO doubt on how good it is and seemingly not half-assed in the thought process, (but possibly half assed in the execution).
Hence my initial comment at the beginning. If I have one great idea, then the two semi good ones anywhere would not satisfy me as much as that one.
*Critique Mode On *
"It is interesting"
*Critique Mode Off*
If you haven't already guessed it...I love art. But the fact of the matter is once again I'm getting almost to the point of burn out of art. My short time spent in art classes had drastically changed my way to of approaching art, let alone creating it. I haven't picked up a paintbrush seriously in years and I don't think I would in the years to come. It's kinda hard to say what a "good" art idea is. Hell just saying "Interesting" in a critique isn't merely a staller of time but another neutral word to use before you say whether it's crap or not. The most referred artist of our century would probably be Warhol and to anyone with solid praticality as their leading instinct, he had one shitty idea. I think I'm here to somewhat discuss it, not absolutly define it but dicuss it.
For me, making art is more of a cumlation of what I learned "is" art and somewhat making something out of it. Not neceesarily copying it (although that's a story for another time) but more of switching a small twist into the fray. For me, since 99 art has ALWAYS been about society. Perhaps not as a whole, but aspects of society. I have hardly ventured into art ideas without this concept backing it. The more I go into it, the more I hate the fact that I'm somewhat copping out and saying:
"This piece is about society's (___insert plausible rubbish___). And that's what it's about."
The fact of the matter is despite how much I want to get away from it, it still dogs me...I want to do an art project about form or the subject but NOT about society....but I'm digressing. The fact of the matter is to me art is a way to communicate. For a more humourous description, "Art is (social) nit-picking". Why "social" as an option? Take an art history course and you'll find out. The fact of the matter since the invention of the camera thus destroying's art's purpose as "representation of reality" art has been degrading it's form, function etc. into every single permutation of life you can think of. Hence abstract black holes in the middle of gallery floors. That is what art is, nit-picking the hell out of life and communicating it in such a way that the audience "gets it" or doesn't...hopefully the former, yet hopefully the latter.
Now my art ideas are anything beyond practical, and not even CLOSE to something to be brought home to show off to your friends....unless I'm dead, you're goths or Eurotrash and it's 200 years into the future. But I feel that somehow it makes a small "dent" in people's minds to say "Hey this is my message...get it". I'm not so much for form as to social commentary, much like the Seinfeldian ramblings of Kevin Smith, or Seinfeld himself. Yet I want to discover this idea of fun and humour behind my art....and the same time perhaps piss off a few people. But that's my way....I feel that an art project is good on my behalf if:
1. I have acheived my initial plan or produced an alternative/adaption that I internally accept
2. I have my friends like it and praise the living daylights out of my while I act modest to get more compliments (I'm such a bastard)
3. I felt that this idea was totally mine, with NO doubt on how good it is and seemingly not half-assed in the thought process, (but possibly half assed in the execution).
Hence my initial comment at the beginning. If I have one great idea, then the two semi good ones anywhere would not satisfy me as much as that one.
*Critique Mode On *
"It is interesting"
*Critique Mode Off*
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