First week critic

I was one of the first people to present in the first week of critics and it was actually helpful. Its was great to see what others are doing and how far off the are with with work. I got some good feed backs and a lot good ideas and tips to help get my project setup. Magan suggested I take a look at artist that have done interactive works and other suggested latex paints for my work this where some of the feedbacks i found helpful and i can't wait to start my project.

Zimmerli vs illustration

So i finally decided to go down to Zimmerli and see what they got to offer. As always room after room of works that i did not find interesting until i hit the jackpot, well not really a jackpot but it was finally i room that grabbed my attention for more than 15 minutes. It was a room dedicated to book illustrators a lot children books felt like i was in and of make believe. On of the illustrators that stod out was Lois Lenski, i didnt know much about hime but i liked what i saw so far so i decided to do a little research about him.

With a little help from google i realize that he is dead, he lived from 1893 to 1974. She won the Newbery award for illustrator for one of his books. The book that mad her famous was "the little Auto" done in 1934. This book was about an imagination play of a boy with a toy. Great illustration using only black and red color to show contrance in his work. The book also feature hand written text by him. After that she went on doing many other great children book. The Zimmerli is holding 36 illustration and 60 children book.

Fair with Chapt 3

I will start off with this interesting quote

"an art fair is no place for an artist...artist tend to view art fairs with a mixture of horror, alienation, and amusement. They feel uneasy when all the hard work of the studio is reduced to supplying the voracious demand..."

This kind of take me back to chapter 2 on the talk about critic in class. This got me thinking being critic in class with your fellow artistic student is completely different from critic you get from the daily unartistic or artistic viewers. Like the quote states at the fair an artist work is reduce to plain supply and demand with buyers not even understanding the time, effort and emotions that went into the process of making that work. They simply just pay what the think is worth and to many artist especially myself some work are just priceless. I don't think i can even bring myself to be next to my work at the fair watching being reduce to an object. Standing next to your work according to book can "destroy" the price or worth of the art. So being next my work would make it even more of an object for sale.

"If artists are seen to be creating art simply to cater to the market, it compromises their integrity and the market loses confidence in their work"

You can never create work to please no one else but your self, this can be said for all type of art except for design. I mean as a professional designers your job is to design some that your buyer would like, so the whole point of it is to please the buyer not yourself.

Grad school which am not going to

Well am not really thinking about grad school i had enough school for now. I might try to get my masters latter on.

Yale

School of Visual Arts - New York, NY

New School - Parsons School of Design - New York, NY

New York University - New York , NY

Edinburgh College of Art

Birmingham Institute of Art & Design

Chapter 2

Quotes:

- "The work you do as an artist is really play, but it is a play in the most serious sense...You are materializing-taking something from the inside and putting it out into the world so you can be relieved of it." pg 52

*thats exactly the kind of feeling i feel when am doing a work am really into, i can really identify myself in this quote.

"When artist are put on the spot, Jones feels, it helps them 'develop thick skins and come to see criticism as rhetoric rather than personal attack." pg 55

*Yea as first it really feels like an attack but when 2 or 3 people mention the same exact thing you start to appreciate the feedbacks your getting.

- "Critics can also be painful rituals that resemble cross-examinations in which artist are forced to rationalized their work and defend themselves from a flurry of half-baked opinions that leave them feeling town apart." pg 47

*Yes some times i feel its not necessary for me to explain my work it basically what you see is what you get, being force to put a meaning to something without a meaning just feels like am cheating myself.

"Asher maintains that his critic has no rules except that students have to 'listen to and respect each other.'"
"Many believe that artists shouldn't be obliged to explain their work. As Hickey declares, 'I don't care about an artist's intentions. I care if the work looks like it might have some consequences.”

*sometime the critic can get out of hand good to keep order or we all be there longer than where suppose to.

MFA Gallery Show

The MFA show was pretty interesting even though it did not inspire me in any way possible. First of all it was mainly painters and photographers, there was no designers works at all, i wish there was at least one design work so I could start getting a good idea on how to use my space for the show as a designer. Despite my dislike for the mediums shown at the show I was instantly drawn to the painting by Caetlnn Booth Night park. Its an oil painting of a night time at a park. Instantly you can tell the artist is great at mixing color, you really have the feeling of night time with gloomy dark look of the park. Also a great display a maxive landscape by putting the painting in a horizontal 24 by 96 inch canvas. This painting kinda of has a design aspect to it maybe that why i like it alot. Its very balance from left to right. I also appriciate the realism of the artist, if you stand far enough from it feels like your looking out of a window of a train as it drives by. Now another work i find opposite what i thought about Caetlnn work is an untitled painting by unknown artist. Am not even sure what the work was suppose to be representing. I understand the abstract nature of it but i do not see what makes it art and gallery sow worthy. All i see is a giant wast of canvas that could have been use to creat a real artwork. I mean I understand with the whole theory of jackson pollock work i feel like i need to speak with the artist to actually understand what this painting is really signifies.

Chap 6

"Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art... making money is an art and working is art and good business is the best art."

I really appreciate the view of Mr. Murakami. For so long all I have been hearing from artist and student artist is the bridge between the passion for art and money. Murakami to me has the complete good balance of passion for art and money. Yes he has a lot of assistants is doing his work it still all his ideas. His mastermind behind the creation and that’s what brought him to the art celebrity status. The fact that he dose not let the celebrity status get to his head by his humble way of lifestyle shows that his passion for art is still there. Don’t me wrong his passion for money is still there. When I think about famous artist I think about gallery shows but with Murakami think beyond all that. I don’t know many artist who have done a cd cover for a famous rapper before.