Hello All,
Please click the comments link below and post Ten Lies and Three Truths about the art work you have been creating and your modus operendi. The objective here is to carefully craft these lies. For example, to simply say "I never use red." is a really thin and poorly constructed lie. Sample fabrications can be found here.
Andrea Thompson
ReplyDelete1.I look to science fiction as a large inspiration for my artwork.
2.I self publish a Star Trek/Dr. Who mash-up fan zine, full of my own and others’ artwork.
3.Growing up in the suburbs jaded my soul. Nothing of value develops there.
4.I sometimes enjoy the work of failed inventors more than successful ones.
5.Each piece of art I make is based on chapter titles in books I read as a child.
6.Comedy has its place, and it’s not in the art world.
7.I stopped creating work based on horror monsters because I scared myself.
8.The chiseled bodies of ‘70s astronauts motivate all my figurative work.
9.I create best in the middle of the day, when I’ve had a chance to wake up.
10.I think about my body and its movement, and portray that in my work.
11.All my artwork has vaginal imagery, whether intention or not.
12.I am famous on tumblr.
13.The melding of science and art, and nature and geometry are sources of beauty that is rivaled by little else.
Leah Evans
ReplyDelete1. My work is a response to modern ideals of physical perfection, and how unattainable those standards are.
2. Many of my paintings have been based off of events and people from my childhood.
3. I use my self portraits as a way to explore my personal body image issues.
4. Growing up with a severely dysfunctional family led me to seek out alternative forms of expression.
5. I have a morbid preoccupation with death; I create self portraits because of an intense fear of being forgotten.
6. As a child I was obsessed with Disney movies, and as an adult I still find myself turning to those same films for inspiration and guidance in my work.
7. As a teenager I experimented with drugs in order to broaden my ability for creative expression.
8. I love people watching. I garner much of my inspiration from observing random strangers.
9. I find my body stunningly beautiful; therefore I use myself as a model for all of my pieces.
10. My work is about fear. What it feels like when you’re sitting in the dark and the only sound you can hear is the beating of your heart in your ears, and every sigh of the wind makes you jump.
11. I try to create beauty in an attempt to combat the ever growing grime of the city around me.
12. When creating art I make no attempt to comment on politics or philosophy, I simply paint things that I find beautiful.
13. When I find myself thirsting for inspiration, I look to famous poets and I use their words to guide my creative process.
1. Mundane, everyday tasks provide me with no inspiration when formulating fresh ideas.
ReplyDelete2. My work secretly advocates for endangered wild animals who, if no one speaks for now, will all be extinct by 2014.
3. Through my process, I experience an overwhelming amount of freedom as the piece takes its form.
4. My work directly addresses my childhood struggles of war and poverty.
5. My ideas derive only from elements of interest that I have researched, and that I fully understand.
6. To gain inspiration: analyzing that which should be common sense is a waste of energy which should instead be spent searching for the beauty in truly over-the-top experiences.
7. My work is a critique on art itself.
8. My process is a direct and often complex link to the concept of cognitive evolution.
9. Growing up in an Amish community has positively influenced my critique of feminist art.
10. My subject focuses on specific individuals and their very identifiable characteristics.
11. The space in which each of my pieces is created has little importance to their structure.
12. The structures of my pieces are meant to be very organic in form.
13. My work is highly influenced by diasporas’ psychological effects on man and its ability to influence our thought and decision-making processes.
Deanna Daly
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1. My work deals with feminism. It challenges art history’s long-standing focus on European male artists. I am discovering the history of black women’s art in particular and looking at forms we don’t usually consider such as quilts, church songs, and gardens.
2. My work deals with the concepts of Freud. It uses color and symbolism to represent desire (sexual and otherwise), about the workings of the mind, basic human interactions, and human’s sense of self.
3. My artwork in the past was an illustrative representation of poetry. Using the symbolism in a poem. I would paint scenes or feelings that I got while reading the poetry.
4. My artwork portrays the struggle of lower class Americans. Using photography and drawing, I try to portray emotion through facial features. I want the viewer to feel the anguish in each of the portraits I make and to understand the struggles that people face in day-to-day life.
5. My work is talking about the struggles the black culture faces in today’s society. I use pictures from magazines, Internet, and screen shots from music videos and paint from those references.
6. My work deals with environmental art. I use natural materials such as earth pigments, sticks, leaves, and hand made paper. These materials are all used to create ‘green’ art, which does not harm the environment when being made or thrown out (hopefully it is not thrown out)
7. My artwork deals with the relationships between children and parents. I use sculpture to show emotional turmoil between a son/daughter and their father/mother.
8. My artwork deals with the exploration of collage elements. I use things such as newspaper text, feathers, scrap paper, color-aid, and paint to portray certain concepts.
9. My work deals with discovery of people’s personality traits and characteristics. I use a scientific method to learn things about people and then I use them as a visual element in my work.
10. My work centers around punk rock culture. I use painting, photography, and sculpture to re-create different situations in punk culture. Using things such as color, specific interior photography, and portraiture, I capture a feeling that only a small percentage of the world get to experience.
11. My work is about the psychology of memory. I use memory-recalling elements in my artwork such as sound and smell. The viewers see, hear, and smell these elements in my installations and sculptures and I hope that it evokes the feeling of personal memories.
12. My work revolves around collage and putting modern imagery with historical events.
13. My work is collage based and uses celebrity photos from the 1960s and puts them together to create a unified peace of artwork. It has mostly women celebrities and I only use a grayscale color scheme.
(Just realized that I wrote way more than the above comments O.o woops)
Regina Lamberti
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1. Everyday when I wake up I read a page of the dictionary for inspiration within my work.
2. When I am creating any type of art I sing show tunes in my head.
3. I use a limited color palette because bright colors scare me.
4. I use a limited color palette because I believe it is easy on the eyes.
5. I use a limited color palette without even thinking about it.
6. Repetition throughout my work is my way of meditating.
7. Organization and rules are key to my brainstorming process for my artwork.
8. Using participants in my work intrigues me because I have always wanted to know how people think.
9. Using participants in my work intrigues me because I enjoy having other people do my work for me.
10. All of my concepts are born from vivid dreams that I have had.
11. I have always wanted to become a psychologist so that I people would tell me their secrets.
12. In my work I use whatever materials I have lying around the studio. They have nothing to do with my concepts.
13. I believe that an artist does not have to use only one medium and that artistic concepts can be expressed in any medium.
Alexandra Waite
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1. I do not want to bring technology into my work because I believe in using traditional art materials and I find technology to be very confusing.
2. My work always starts with a material that I am interested in using and then comes the idea.
3. I have spent many years of my life in performing art groups; however, I am not interested in bringing performance into my studio.
4. Works that can only be found on the wall of a small gallery possess an intimacy, like a secret, which I find very appealing. (The less people who see my work the better.)
5. “Money is no object.” Yes it is, but I enjoy the challenge of limiting my materials to what I can afford.
6. My work is most effective because it focuses on getting the attention of a select audience (e.g young, white women) and not the general public.
7. Many people feel the need to conceal personal problems because they are embarrassing and I want my work to address said embarrassments to make these people feel more self-conscious.
8. Mass produced products are not fine art; therefore, I do not plan to manufacture any functional pieces I might create.
9. Like Claude Monet, Henri Matisse, Frida Kalho, and many other great artists, my life partner influences many of my works.
10. The monetary value of my work is unimportant because I do not plan on selling it to anyone.
11. My artwork parallels my teaching in that I tend to focus on trying to make both my students and my audiences more accepting of others’ differences.
12. To spend my life creating work about equality and sameness would be silly because the human race will never be all accepting.
13. I like my work to focus on diseases because they are gross and I find the beauty vs. grotesque conversation to be an important one.
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ReplyDelete1. My connection with environmental art creates a wonderful opportunity for me to teach students the importance of environmental protection and awareness, while we create beautiful works of art using all natural materials.
ReplyDelete2. I started making my own charcoals to bridge the gap between the active physical process of sculpture and the tranquil quality of drawing.
3. Some of my drawings are optical illusions, which is a quality i strive for.
4. I create art that makes me feel disconnected with nature.
5. I do not want my work to look like surrealism.
4. Creating art is not relaxing for me.
5. Nature does not inspire me.
6. I do not enjoy charcoal drawing because it is nothing like painting and can not be used like color.
7. I do not like patterns or repetition.
10. I choose to do drawings because I do not like sculpture or 3d work.
11. I am an environmental artist.
12. I create art that I believe people will buy so that i can make a living as a freelance artist.
13. I spend every free moment i can making art.