Dear painters, art aficionados, and art explorers everywhere. I would never have guessed this journal would keep my interest for so long! Join me as I learn about the processes of painting, drawing and at times, the history of art.
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2.03.2008

Re: 3rd ArtnTech class Feb 2 - Collage +

In spite of the fact i forgot a media storage device and borrowed Dan's for my collage scan (thanks Dan!) - i had a great time in class.

Making our collages from magazines was amazingly fun, opening my brain even further... i hope. i do feel lost and confused at times and if i can just use my McGyver approach more often and not be afraid of doing something wrong (and break the computer) all the time, i just might get this Photoshop thing! i didn't get to try the digital collage and i would like to do that.

i really enjoyed watching the youtube videos and i thought they ALL were art! Performance art, and engineering marvels are very much art...to me. i believe the question of whether or not something is art is entirely a personal opinion. We have also been discussing "cheating" and i thought, what if the idea comes from another piece of art? Is that cheating? Where do ideas come from? All of our art talk and sharing opinions is what makes the world go 'round and broadens the mind.

Listening to my classmates voice their opinions makes me wonder about each of your philosophy of art and how would you actually voice/write that. i am still developing my "philosophy of art" and at some point will write it down....but it seems to me that even before i write it, that it will change as i expand my "art knowledge". Below is a first try to describe my concept of "art":

Art, to me, is an expression/representation of the way a being (yes, even an elephant...they are very intelligent) "views...senses" (this is hard!) the world or universe or dream or unknown. And expresses it the method they desire, or possess, or are able(genetic gift)/skilled/trained.

How many methods of art expression can you list?....singing, dancing, acting, photography, painting, cooking, writing, keyboarding/clicking and dragging, sculpting, carving, constructing.....they are myriad....infinite?


Ok, that is my blog after a thought-provoking couple of classes!

1 comment:

Julie Bates said...

Hi Teri!

I agree with you that our perception of art and how we describe it or define it can change and grow as we grow. I know for me it can even change with my mood! Or, as I am finding out, the more you push your creative limits.

I am also finding that everyone has an intuitive sense of what makes or defines art... maybe not a straight definition, because they have never thought of it in those terms before.

Anyway, thank you for the thought provoking post! julie