So I re-read the last post I made on this blog and I came to the conclusion that I am not one who should broadcast what I think has to happen to the art world as a whole. Or anything remotely similar to this. It might be interesting to see a different view point, but seriously I should just stop while I'm ahead. It all sounds rather pretentious honestly. Or worse yet, trying to sound much more intelligent then I really am and that is just stupid to begin with.
The same thing can be said when I do segments about music, albums and what have you. But I feel as though my opinions to music as much less authoritative and more about perspective which in turn makes them seem less troublesome. Either way, I have to be sure not to sound like some whiny little bitch who thinks he knows everything. Because ladies and gentlemen, I don't. In fact, the only thing that I seem to discover periodically is how little I know about most things. And that's demeaning and depressing, but also sort of inspiring.
So I guess that is all for now, not really in a mood to post anything new or exciting since the semester has ended, but it's all about keeping the ball rolling. Have a happy new year, whoever and wherever you are.
Friday, December 31, 2010
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Art/Design needs to Evolve
Evolve used for lack a better term. And for the record, this isn't a critical analysis of art today, this is merely the realization of what has to happen in order to make successful artwork. So I had a thought as I was in the bathroom this afternoon (what I may have been doing in there is none of your damn business you filthy perverts). It was about surfing of all things, like with a surfboard on an ocean. Shuffling through what little I knew about surfing, my thoughts eventually went to the Graphic Designer and personal favorite, David Carson. For those who don't know Carson, have a looksee below:
I recommend anyone who hasn't seen anything like this before look Carson up. Anyway, Carson did the designs for a now defunct magazine called "Beach Culture" which focused on surfing and other ocean related hobbies in California. Carson himself was an avid surfer in his younger days and might even be so today. But I digress, I need to prove a point. Carson did design work but he also included other passions in his life into his work. The chaotic and almost illegible type relating to the uncertain and liquid state of a tidal wave, or the brashness of youth coming through without a care in the world.
Now, this is just an interpretation of Carson's work, I'm sure he'd probably read this and tell me that I was insane. But art/ design alone doesn't work by itself, it's a piece of a final product. What you combine with art /design is the real interesting element. This isn't some revolutionary concept I'm talking about, plenty of people have come to their own understandings about this subject. But there are some people, mostly young aspiring artists and designers who think that if they work with the basic ideas of art/design alone, they'll be fine and the creativity from these sources alone will be enough. To be blunt, beef stew isn't beef stew with just beef. Beef stew with just beef brings grief.
We need more artists who can push the boundaries of their work by adding more into it. In the future, I don't want to see art that is just art. I want to see art that is a flurry of spices and seasonings all mixed together into their work. I want to see a painting, a portrait with the artist's love of soccer, their admiration for Russian Propaganda, their disgust of fast food, all coming in at once and turning an elementary example of art into something great. Of course, I am not proposing we make chimerical artwork, merely the sum parts of the influences used to create it. In that respect, it might seem easy to make a Frankenstein monster out of art. Cheap and lifeless are not goals I wish people to undertake. You still need beef to make beef stew after all, so use the spices sparingly and appropriately.
Being a student at an art school, I have been graced to see many talented artists' works hung on the white walls that cover the school and there have been a lot of different directions that these people have gone. But there is still more we can do. So that is why I say art/design needs to evolve. Even though design is less based on the personal expressions of the designer and more about problem solving, there is still a personal element that can be thrown into how to solve a problem if not the creation of the design.
So that's my rant, like I said before it's nothing new. It's just something I think that needs to be said.
I recommend anyone who hasn't seen anything like this before look Carson up. Anyway, Carson did the designs for a now defunct magazine called "Beach Culture" which focused on surfing and other ocean related hobbies in California. Carson himself was an avid surfer in his younger days and might even be so today. But I digress, I need to prove a point. Carson did design work but he also included other passions in his life into his work. The chaotic and almost illegible type relating to the uncertain and liquid state of a tidal wave, or the brashness of youth coming through without a care in the world.
Now, this is just an interpretation of Carson's work, I'm sure he'd probably read this and tell me that I was insane. But art/ design alone doesn't work by itself, it's a piece of a final product. What you combine with art /design is the real interesting element. This isn't some revolutionary concept I'm talking about, plenty of people have come to their own understandings about this subject. But there are some people, mostly young aspiring artists and designers who think that if they work with the basic ideas of art/design alone, they'll be fine and the creativity from these sources alone will be enough. To be blunt, beef stew isn't beef stew with just beef. Beef stew with just beef brings grief.
We need more artists who can push the boundaries of their work by adding more into it. In the future, I don't want to see art that is just art. I want to see art that is a flurry of spices and seasonings all mixed together into their work. I want to see a painting, a portrait with the artist's love of soccer, their admiration for Russian Propaganda, their disgust of fast food, all coming in at once and turning an elementary example of art into something great. Of course, I am not proposing we make chimerical artwork, merely the sum parts of the influences used to create it. In that respect, it might seem easy to make a Frankenstein monster out of art. Cheap and lifeless are not goals I wish people to undertake. You still need beef to make beef stew after all, so use the spices sparingly and appropriately.
Being a student at an art school, I have been graced to see many talented artists' works hung on the white walls that cover the school and there have been a lot of different directions that these people have gone. But there is still more we can do. So that is why I say art/design needs to evolve. Even though design is less based on the personal expressions of the designer and more about problem solving, there is still a personal element that can be thrown into how to solve a problem if not the creation of the design.
So that's my rant, like I said before it's nothing new. It's just something I think that needs to be said.
Monday, December 6, 2010
We're Not Kidding Around
“Don’t Kid Yourself"
“We’re Not Kidding Ourselves Here”
I have more work finished up, but these are the only ones with set titles. Hoping to go ahead and add more very soon.
These recent pictures are all playing on different effects and visuals that hope to expand on these very 2-D creations from the limbo of potential t-shirt designs (all of course without taking their charming simplicity from them too much). Playing with certain colors gave these stencil figures a sense of depth, using non-stencil photographic images much like that of the Leslie Nielson image in the last post, the gradients helped expand environments rather than using simple flat colors and the use of blurring to also show depth. I should keep effects to a minimum, like I said I want to keep them simplistic to a degree.
These recent pictures are all playing on different effects and visuals that hope to expand on these very 2-D creations from the limbo of potential t-shirt designs (all of course without taking their charming simplicity from them too much). Playing with certain colors gave these stencil figures a sense of depth, using non-stencil photographic images much like that of the Leslie Nielson image in the last post, the gradients helped expand environments rather than using simple flat colors and the use of blurring to also show depth. I should keep effects to a minimum, like I said I want to keep them simplistic to a degree.
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