Sol Sender, leader of creative development for the Obama ’08 campaign logo, discusses his creative process
Interview by Caitlin Shriner for F newsmagazine
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Signs of recovery at Haughtons’ New York fair
By Brook Mason from The Art Newspaper
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Signs-of-recovery-at-Haughtons-New-York-fair/19644
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How to Conserve Art that lives in a lake?
By: Randy Kennedy
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/arts/design/18spiral.html?_r=1&em
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Picasso book of sketches stolen from Paris
Picasso book of sketches stolen
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A different way to think about creative genius
By: Elizabeth Gilbert
Artist responsibility/accountability/and muse
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Something to think about if you are an art consumer, artist, or space…
Facebook is more than a fad – and museums need to learn from it
By: Jim Richardson for The Art Newspaper
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=17207
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BE AN ARTIST
By: Angela Lizak April 22, 2009
Newsflash….being an artist is not easy. I’m sure I am not the first to tell you this, does the phrase “starving artist” sound familiar. The stereotype may be true, BUT I’d argue that it (the phrase) might not be the artistic identity at all. This profession like others is a calling. We are most likely the misfits who have been given this ability to see and create things, beautiful paintings, picturesque photos, timeless films, words that transcend, and music that recalls emotion. As an artist I do not feel the burden of seeing things differently in this more creative way. I may feel the burden of being broke, the burden of trying to fit my talents into some kind of mainstream paycheck, but I am full of images much more important to me than a full wallet. I am not starving.
I do not create for a specific consumer. I am not a big box,…or any box. Are we not required by the great laws of artistry to think out of the box? This allows us to identify problems in a new way. We bring attention to political issues, we impact a social theme by exposing it frame by tiny frame, we have the talent to actually make the world think! And hopefully they think about something in a new way even if they don’t understand everything exactly, even if they don’t agree with us.
Take a leaf for example. Maybe we as artist want to show how it represents nature, how it is one in nature but one of many, how it is fragile and yet so strong holding it’s own in a great hurricane, how it is green and also many shades and tones of the complete spectrum, how the color changes as the sun and clouds blow by, how that color mixes in our eye and how that is represented in a medium. How a room full of artist would all create this leaf differently. With different techniques and goals. Veins in the leaf would be important to one artist to relate it to a local river were it grows, another artist may want to play with the leaf as both a source of medicine or nourishment but also a poison. This is how artist think and what they portray. And yes we may not intend to portray all of this in our original image but WE TOO LEARN ALONG THE WAY as we create. Your average banker might just see a leaf, hell he’d probably weed wack the thing off his perfect manicured suburban landscape let alone his memory.
As artists we have to keep seeing and see things differently than everyone else. We need to cultivate relationships with the world and each other, more than a tweet or status update. As artists we need to go experience the world outside, the world inside, past and present. READ, go to museums, go to shows, listen to something new, go OUTSIDE your discipline!!! Go outside and nap in the sun, go be by yourself, go be with friends. WE need to keep working at being artist just as much as we need to keep at our work. I feel that artist of all disciplines are open to learning…, new information, techniques, ideas, emotions…all of which is then reflected in our work and in us as people, individuals, and artists.
Keep working at it all and you will not be “starving”.
