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.

South Beach Miami Lincon road art gallery

I traveled to south beach Miami a couple of weeks ago mainly to party but i ended doing something more educational. During my one day of exploring, i found my self on Lincoln Rd a street famous for shopping, restaurant and to my surprise also art. The had a couple of good shows all free and i had a chance to see a show by Romero Britto. His work was amazing and he had his own style. He work varies from 2d to 3d images or toy like figure. From what i read he has done 3d figure for public parks to decoration of cars. When it come to combining color britto style stands out. His colors are very bright and kind of pops out very fun patterns and a lot of curve line. I would love to see more of his 3d work the only one they had at the gallery was the small size maybe because they can't fit his bigger work in the show.

Interview With Kathryn Mecca

Kathryn and I started our interview as a conversation at first. Right away we talked about one of the topic that was brought up in class about how important a critic is to a Artist or a Designer, i started off saying :



CE: I don't really like the idea critic not because is not helpful but the fact that i cant BS enough to make the profession buy my concept. I always had a friend who help me talk about my idea.

KC: I don't know i kind of find critics very helpful maybe is different from a designer but as a painter i find it very important and helpful. By putting your project online on facebook and having people comment on it is a critic it self.

CE: Is not like i dont like the idea of critic is just the way in design sometime people just tear your work apart by there words.

KC: i Understand by getting feedbacks from comments on face but you can take there comments more lightly unlike the class critics. Maybe is tougher in class critics because the proffessor be part of the critic.

CE: yea it kinda makes it difficult because if someone mention an idea you dont like or points out a minor error and you somehow forget to incoperate that on your finale you get points taken off .
at the end of the day is all about the grades no matter how good your work is if you dont pass is meaningless.

KC: I disagree I dont really care about the grades i am more focus on the work because that what am going to holding at my hand at the end of the day.

CE: ususall when i do a project i do it according to a guildline like am doing work for a real company or project, as a painter do you do work for yourself or to satify your audience?

KC: As a painter i paint for myself and hopefully try to sell to someone or any one that can ideatify themself to my work. so its completely different from a designer.

CE: How do you feel when people find a different meaning to your work?

KC: not really is just people always will find other meaning to your work that is relevent to there life and is nice and cool that my work could provoke a different idea completely different from what i was trying to project i LOVE that. I interesting to see what other people have to see and is not like its taking away from the meaning your trying to protreat.

at this time Kath started to show me some of her work she focus her work on mainly portrait and in this portraits she try to campture emotions.

CE: tell me about your work?

KC: My work is pretty me trying to portrait someone seating infront of me and its challenging trying o get them to lok like them so is kinda of an excersise rather then a thought out planed painting.

CE: you only work with life models?

KC: Most of them are life models. On this one ( she is showing me a painting) i try to capture the emotion of my friend (her friend modeled for her) his a writter his alwasy wrapped up in his own thoughts, his kinda of a tragic character very depressing so thats what i was trying to capture.

CE: what medium do you use

KC: oil paint, (shows me another painting of her little brother) this is a painting of my lil brother his like an old man in a lil kid bodies makes him look very pensive. thats what am trying to portrait in this one.

She then gose on to explain her new project. Her new experiment with losser brush strokes and some abstract work and she realize she going to stick with people. She also tryed sculpture over the summer, she love working with here hand she its more easier than painting because how fast she can work with it. still trying to figire what shes going to do for a thesis. And also she only paint her work once because she only belive painting for the moment because " you can't always feel thesame way twice"

Alex Bag video

Alex bag video is pretty much segment of video blogs which she plays different characters. I related to the first segment because she focus on art student mind set when surrounded by other artist. The other videos was a little out the for me to understand and make sense of. One video talks about her being bored at her job and on the other one she is some kind of phone prostitute. Very blizzard video.

New Museum

The trip to the New Museum was very encouraging when it comes to the ideas that was portrayed by the artist works. Especially worked from the level 2 of the Museum "Black Panther" by Emory Douglass which shined light on the positive works of the black panthers group. The artist was creative in presenting the researches with multiple mediums such as silk screen, print, Newspapers , and even videos. I personally thought that gallery was the best one at the Museum.