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One of my favorite artists and my dear friend, Michael Macfeat produced a series of "Trading Cards." This particular image is from a set about Lies and The Truth. More info can be found here.
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 instance, if you say, "I never use red." it is a thin, boring and poorly constructed lie. Your concocted falsehoods would be weak and transparent if we were presented with images of blue and green paintings. The objective of "lying" is to have someone believe your story! When posting your assignment, do not indicate which are T/F. The challenge will be for your audience to figure it out. Sample fabrications can be found in the in the comments section below. Please format your response in the same manner. (no nick-names please)
ALL students should post the Lies and Truths assignment by Midnight on Tuesday, 2/4/14. All students will be prepared to present 6-15 current images of work and 6 copies of your Lies and Truths on Wednesday, 2/4/14. Upload image folders to the desktop of class computer as soon as you get there. Be on Time! Print papers BEFORE class, not during. All students will write comments and suggestions on the "L/TR" papers and return to presenting students at the end of class. (This will be our only paper transaction. All other responses will be digital.)
SAMPLE LIES AND TRUTHS
ReplyDelete(written about this body of work while developing an artist statement)
http://www.behance.net/gallery/Dear-Glenn-Gould/2758259
SAULIN FROCK
Ten Lies, Three Truths
1.My work is based on the film The Wizard of Oz. The black and white forms represent Dorothy’s struggle with life. The colored forms represent Dorothy’s transcendence of her victim life and entrance into Aldus Huxley’s world of color and undiscovered territory.
2.My work is a response to inner-city urban life. It is a metaphorical blossoming of hooker, turned social worker.
3.My work is a response to sound, movement, color, light and life experience. It is attempting to translate disparate emotion and form into a continuous narrative. The works are little vessels that grow together. They hold out what wants in and shade the shy lights that peek out.
4.My work is based upon 1980’s sit-coms. The white forms represent the narrative that the characters in the TV show full house represent. From left to right, the characters represent Tutti, Blair, Mrs.Garrison and Joe. They float through the flotsam and jetsam of the facts of life, as they lay anchor to what is important in this world.
5.My work is about the inhumanity of man to man.
6.In my work, I only think about what I can read, discuss, talk, and write about theoretically or critically. It is about the idea. I rely heavily on post-Marxist French philosophy. It has nothing to do with what I see. It is all a social concern.
7.“That’s why you listen to Vikki Carr and don’t touch me… a bride with no head…a wolf with no foot. Men cheat because they fear death!” My work is about the film Moonstruck, I am Cher!
8.These objects come to me in dreams.
9.Absorbed in creation, nothing else matters to me. I am a becoming Victor Frankenstein.
10. ...a becoming-wasp of the orchid and a becoming-orchid of the wasp
11. ...the aparallel evolution of two beings that have absolutely nothing to do with each other
12.Flipping, deleting, expanding, speeding up, slowing down, layering and distilling visual material into art pieces, I create artwork organic in nature and layered with meaning.
13.Although my process begins in sculpture, it develops into drawing (a backward play on the traditional preliminary sketch to final sculpture).
10 lies 3 truths
ReplyDelete1. My work is about societies outlook on how the body needs to be perfect.
2. Using methods to which could depict the anatomy. Blowing ink through a straw is an uncontrolled way to illustrate the inconsistency of our inner parts.
3.Although I think in terms of painting, my work branches out into drawing and sculpture.
4. Like nature my work is inspired.
5. Anxiety is a basis that comes out in my work this semester that further illustrates the body and its marks.
6. Based off of my own self and insecurities.
7. Others experiences not my own delve into every decision and mark made.
8.Growing inspiration from the “cycle of life”, the plastination technique applied to human bodies grabs my attention to further my research of the anatomy.
9. “For fifteen minutes. That's the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever.” I am Ricky Fitts from American Beauty, constantly view things from perspective not understood by many.
10. Moving, and inconsistent nature creates its own language in my marks.
11. Making the body beautiful again, I use painting to show these imperfections and embrace them.
12. Different directions but all in unison to prove the central point.
13. Feminism plays a huge role in my work.
Pearls of wisdom
1.Pick one direction and stick with it.
2.The concept it really strong, they can tell I am passionate the work just doesn’t follow suit.
3. Your two paintings in the beginning of the semester are the strongest.
My work is based on the importance of Home construction.
ReplyDeleteThe sense of conversation is present in my work.
I aim to recreate personal memories through the outlet of spacial relationships.
My work includes plaster replicas to suggest absence.
My work is based on victorian decor in relation to feminism.
My work uses a strict color pallet based on the emotions I experience from memories in relation to being a Synesthete.
My work is a collection of carefully pieced family heirlooms.
I recreate possible narratives of abandoned objects.
Dreams are my primary resource of construction directionality.
My work is about thrift store objects holding memory and how those memories translate to new owners.
My work is about the interconnectedness and close relationships withstanding in my family.
The use of plaster in my work is suggestive and symbolic of patching wounds.
I collect dust from my own home to place in my instillations.
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work on/ [know the difference between] instillation art.
be more conscious of text and it's accessibility.
solve and develop a way for the memories to appear as personal, create a space for the viewer to feel a sense of invasiveness.
1. Feminism is an imperative idealogy behind my work.
ReplyDelete2. My hometown influences my work in many ways.
3. I often use hair in my work because I love to wear fake hair often.
4. My work is a therapuetic technique for me, and is an exploration of my self image.
5. The movie Mean Girls has a significant impact on my work, regarding self-image and judgement from others.
6. I often collaborate or communicate with many people to create work.
7. The purpose of my work is to display me as an Italian-American from the Jersey Shore.
8. Makeup is a reoccuring theme in my work because I have extensive background in cosmetology.
9. The hair I use in my work is the hair I had to cut off 2 years ago, which I feel makes my work more personal.
10. My paintings and enameling are abstract expressions about putting on makeup.
11. I use makeup in my work because I am interested in the concept of unconventional and nontraditional materials.
12. I consult with people from my hometown about my concepts before finishing work. The work often is transformed by them.
13. A purpose of my work is to show people my insecurities.
Pearls of Wisdom:
-Work on everything without trying to hard to make work "about something."
-Jewelry seems the most personal and successful.
-Think about what I want to convey and make sure the message is being translated to the viewer.
10 lies 3 truths:
ReplyDelete1. My work is based strictly on power of the earth and how it moves throughout history.
2. My work is based on writings of the natural wonders.
3. My work is looking at natural wonders and thinking about how they can be morphed.
4. My work is looking at other artists and copying what they do with patterns and textures.
5. My work just tends to happen, there is no real reason.
6. My work is talking about mans struggle with making natural items.
7. My work has nothing to do with what I read and everything to do with sight.
8. My objects become sculptures through my hands without the use of tools.
9. When creating my work I tend to walk right outside and be able to see my next piece.
10. My work is the constant battle of man-made objects becoming natural.
11. The dripping method of glazes comes from rain patterns in nature.
12. My work tends to be vessel like structures in order to grow natural elements out of.
13. Texture is my number on concern.
Pearls of Wisdom:
-Figure out if my work is vessels or sculpture
-Go larger and work more
-Decide to use real moss
10 lies and 3 truths:
ReplyDelete1.My work tries to convey a personal narrative.
2.A portrait can take me up to a week to finish.
3. Working in pencil allows me to get great detail in my portraits.
4.The process of doing the portraits are very easy.
5.The portraits are detailed and texture to bring some movement.
6.The composition of the portraits are strategically thought out.
7.The Sandbox in the installation was there to represent childhood.
8.The sand bottles were based off of my family tradition.
9.My work explores the ideas of documentation and history.
10.The more details I have in my portraits represents the connection I have to that particular person.
11.The backgrounds of the portraits are always thought out.
12.The sizes of the portraits was decided by the fact that there would be a lot more of them to fill out the space.
13. The portraits are for the viewer to know who I am.
3 pearls of wisdom
Less is more.
Try drawing from memory.
Work on cohesiveness.