Art and Fear: Chapter One
Writing [artmaking] is easy: all you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead. -Gene Fowler
Repost the following questions on your own blog and write your responses to them. This is due by Sunday, Sept 11, 9pm :
1. What does the face of uncertainty mean to you?
2. How do you feel about the notion of, "doing something no one much cares wether you do, and for which there may be niether audience nor reward"?
3. The Assumptions: take one of the assumptions listed below and consider your personal relationship to it. How does the assumption relate to your feelings and thoughts toward art and artmaking? Please write a short paragraph analyzing the chosen assumption and your relationship to it.
- Artmaking invloves skill that can be learned
- Art is made by ordinary people
- Making art and viewing art are different at their core:
*to all viewers but yourself, what matters most is the product/ finished artwork
* your job is to learn to work on your work:
-even failed pieces are essential,
-you learn to make art by making your art,
-make art you care about and make LOTS of it!
4. Artmaking has been around longer than the art establishment.
1. Definition/ Identity as an artist has both drawbacks and benefits. What does labeling yourself as an artist do for you or not do for you personally?
2. What does labeling yourself as an artist do or not do for you as others view you?
1. The face of certainty with me means painting a picture without any idea whether it is accepted and liked by others or not.
ReplyDelete2. I feel that notion is really familiar with me. I've not made many artworks. While doing my artworks, I always wondered if others noticed what I was doing or what my artwork would turned out to be. Sometimes people like my paintings or pictures, but sometimes they nearly ignore the existence of my artworks due to little or no attraction they could find. And then, when I started another project, the same uncertainty happened and even grew bigger.
3. "Artmaking involves skills that can be learned".
With every artists, craftman ship is really important. I always want to paint as real as possible. In order to do so, I have to be able to make really small details. For example, in the painting of a crane and a turtle I made this summer, I painted the feathers of the crane's wings and tail. It was hard for me at first to express the lines of the feathers because the lines had to be thin and straight. Also not all of the lines supposed to be in the same size; there were longer ones and shorter ones, thicker ones and thinner ones. The lines I made at the beginning did not reach those qualities. But through practices, I gradually learned how to use a brush with oil paint to do this craftman-ship-requiring work.
4.
a. For me, the label "artist" makes my life more joyful. I really like Science, especially Maths and Physics, the subjects with some people are really dry and boring. Making art brings to my life colors and shapes and put them beside the numbers and formula already in my brain.
b. At school, most of my classes are science and I do well on those class. However, almost my classmates don't know I'm able to make arts. Not until they were surprised by my best paintings did they know I was an artist. The label "artist" brings a new view of others about me other than a Science-lover.