Nature and art either flow together or clash, and Ubo's ability to entirely integrate his small utopias into the environment is inspiring. I also love his idea of creating miniature places of perfect balance and harmony. I love the final product that he comes up with, but I would also love to see his process, and how he creates these works of beauty. I think that could add a whole new element to his art, which would alter his meaning, but I am very interested in learning about his artistic process.
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I'm having some fun and weird ideas about this next project. I loved the Keith Herring video we watched today, because he has zero preparation in doing his pieces, and a lot of times neither do I.
I'm thinking of going abstract sculpture for this next piece, possibly going back to my old favorite, plaster. Stay tuned, folks.
I used Pascal Smelik as an example of an artist in my Neo-Naturalism talk, and I'm using him again because I find his work so fascinating. There is a certain organic fire that I feel in his creations, which is immensely appealing, as is the intricate process he uses to make them. Smelik is a Dutch artist that works primarily in candle wax. He plays with the chemistry of thermodynamics in order to create his beautiful works with hot, melted wax and cold water. I love my adopted city. It's so unique and such a great environment for budding creativity. The Richmond Mural Project keeps getting better and better with each year, and I love going around finding new murals that I haven't yet seen. It will take me a very long time to see each and every one of them, but I'm definitely willing to try. All of the murals featured in this post are humanoid in nature, exploring topics of the human mind or the human self, which I think is great. They are all beautiful and technically advanced, and brimming with meaning. I really want to do a figure study, this is just a preliminary idea sketch and not by any means the final product, but this is the route I want to go with this home project.
I honestly have no plan for this project. All I know is that dirt and oil can symbolize gluttony and filth, which is what I want to have in this project. I've debated many different ways of going about this and I've hit a dead end... help
Protest art as seen in these two articles is mainly used as a supplement to actual human protest, meaning the physical presence of large groups of like-minded people in response to an issue. But in another sense, it is its own political entity that makes its own powerful statements to the world on what it thinks is right and wrong.
In the instance involving the inflatable brick, personally I don't think it's an effective piece because it's execution is, if I understand its methodology correctly, dangerous. Protest art should be just that: art that gives visible resistance to a topic or issue. This does not entail anyone or anything being harmed in the transmission of this message or mantra. Putting people in danger will have the opposite effect than what the artists would have wanted; the public would condemn them and their cause for resorting to such dangerous tactics. The feminist art featured in the second article to me is fairly effective at communicating the frustration with men in the past and in current times. I do think that the magazine cover piece was especially clever, using a story about women trapped in DC museum basements to symbolize the hidden art by women, and society's validation of male artists more than female artists. |