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One of my favorite artists and my dear friend, Michael Macfeat produced a series of "Trading Cards." This particular image is from a set about Lies and The Truth. More info can be found here.
Hello All,
Please click the comments link below and post Ten Lies and Three Truths about the art work you have been creating and your modus operendi. The objective here is to carefully craft these lies. For instance, if you say, "I never use red." it is a thin, boring and poorly constructed lie. Your concocted falsehoods would be weak and transparent if we were presented with images of blue and green paintings. The objective of "lying" is to have someone believe your story! When posting your assignment, do not indicate which are T/F. The challenge will be for your audience to figure it out. Sample fabrications can be found in the comments section below. Please format your response in the same manner. (no nick-names please)
ALL students should post the Lies and Truths assignment by Midnight on Monday, 1/27. The following students will be prepared to present current images of work and 13 copies of your Lies and Truths on Tuesday, 9/6/13. Upload image folders to the desktop of class computer as soon as you get there. Be on Time! Print papers BEFORE class, not during. All students will write comments and suggestions on the "L/TR" papers and return to presenting students at the end of class. (This will be our only paper transaction. All other responses will be digital.) Presentations will be followed by a discussion about Writing Artist Statements.
Presentations of Artwork & 10 Lies, 3 Truths:
(This exercise will take place over 3 wks. See schedule below)
Presentations of Artwork & 10 Lies, 3 Truths:
1/27, Week 2 - Group 1:
1. Caitlin Tschanz
2. Nicole Melnicky
3. Amy Trout
4. Danielle Goodheart
Presentations of Artwork & 10 Lies, 3 Truths:
2/3, Week 3 - Group 2:
1. Elizabeth Harris
2. Victoria Tolley
3. Elizabeth Stricker
4. Alyssa Dempsey
Presentations of Artwork & 10 Lies, 3 Truths:
2/10, Week 3 - Group 3:
1. Carolyn Pucci
2. Elissa Tuerk
3. Kelisa Valinote
4. Jocelyn MacDonald
10 Lies 3 Truths
ReplyDelete1. My work is primarily inspired by travel and foreign cultures.
2. I consider my artwork to be Folk/Outsider Art.
3. Because my paintings are abstract, there is no definitive process as to how they are made.
4. My aunt is a traditional still life oil painter, so I shy away from realism as a way to have my own voice as an artist.
5. Before coming to Moore, I only had one year of formal art education.
6. I like conceptual artwork, because it feels thought-provoking and contemporary.
7. I dislike sculpture/ 3D artwork because I believe that it is not as refined as painting and drawing.
8. Although my earlier paintings are of a manageable size, I intend to work large scale because I enjoy the challenge of filling up the space on the canvas.
9. In my paintings/drawings, I enjoy including the same marks to represent pattern and stability.
10. This semester, I want to use the same color palette-- reds, yellows, and blues, and to push their conceptual meanings.
11. I dislike textured painting surfaces.
12. My artwork is a statement about political agendas.
13. Philadelphia is a major inspiration for my work, and I don't see myself ever leaving here.
1. I have always been able to easily relinquish control when making my art; it is easy for me to let things happen naturally.
ReplyDelete2. I am a very outgoing and social person. This personality trait is reflected in my work, which often has a flair for the dramatic.
3. My photography training, before returning to school and attending Moore, was based mainly in concept, rather than in technical mastery. Therefore, I have struggled with my technical skills since returning to school.
4 . I find inspiration for lighting in the chiaroscuro technique of painters like Caravaggio, Joseph Wright of Derby, and Gerard von Honthorst.
5. My work is rarely based on the psychological or the emotional. I prefer to draw inspiration from the tangible world.
6. I don’t believe that color has any emotional or conceptual significance in photography.
7. I dislike pictorialism.
8. In the past, I have rarely digitally manipulated my photographs in any way other than to enhance color, dodge, or burn (i.e. I did not change, add, or subtract physical things in my photographs).
9. I draw a lot of inspiration from classical and neoclassical paintings.
10. I feel that showing a lot of detail in a photograph is distracting.
11. I dislike rural areas, nor do I find inspiration in nature; instead I prefer the city, and draw inspiration from its hustle and bustle.
12. A photograph is thought to be limited to show a single image at a single moment in time. I sometimes feel frustrated by this and have been striving to find ways to break free of this.
13. I feel that abstraction has no place in photography.
SAMPLE LIES AND TRUTHS
ReplyDeleteSAULIN FROCK
Ten Lies, Three Truths
1.My work is based on the film The Wizard of Oz. The black and white forms represent Dorothy’s struggle with life. The colored forms represent Dorothy’s transcendence of her victim life and entrance into Aldus Huxley’s world of color and undiscovered territory.
2.My work is a response to inner-city urban life. It is a metaphorical blossoming of hooker, turned social worker.
3.My work is a response to sound, movement, color, light and life experience. It is attempting to translate disparate emotion and form into a continuous narrative. The works are little vessels that grow together. They hold out what wants in and shade the shy lights that peek out.
4.My work is based upon 1980’s sit-coms. The white forms represent the narrative that the characters in the TV show full house represent. From left to right, the characters represent Tutti, Blair, Mrs.Garrison and Joe. They float through the flotsam and jetsam of the facts of life, as they lay anchor to what is important in this world.
5.My work is about the inhumanity of man to man.
6.In my work, I only think about what I can read, discuss, talk, and write about theoretically or critically. It is about the idea. I rely heavily on post-Marxist French philosophy. It has nothing to do with what I see. It is all a social concern.
7.“That’s why you listen to Vikki Carr and don’t touch me… a bride with no head…a wolf with no foot. Men cheat because they fear death!” My work is about the film Moonstruck, I am Cher!
8.These objects come to me in dreams.
9.Absorbed in creation, nothing else matters to me. I am a becoming Victor Frankenstein.
10. ...a becoming-wasp of the orchid and a becoming-orchid of the wasp
11. ...the aparallel evolution of two beings that have absolutely nothing to do with each other
12.Flipping, deleting, expanding, speeding up, slowing down, layering and distilling visual material into art pieces, I create artwork organic in nature and layered with meaning.
13.Although my process begins in sculpture, it develops into drawing (a backward play on the traditional preliminary sketch to final sculpture).
1. I cannot start an image without doing a lot of research – it is absolutely critical to my process.
ReplyDelete2. I made very large, dominant self-portraits to express my outgoing, huge presence to everyone when I myself am not there.
3. I am very technical when creating the framework for an image – I take my time to measure and check everything so that it is all accurate before I move the piece on to the next stage.
4. I find my workflow changes dramatically when I work at a larger scale.
5. I have a hard time connecting with non-representational imagery.
6. For a beginning artist, I feel it is crucial to focus on developing a strong technical and formal understanding of the medium and image-making in general, long before any conceptual concerns. No one will care will care what we have to say if we can’t say it well.
7. I make sure every mark I put down “looks” nice.
8. I have a hard time drawing or painting a model I don’t find aesthetically pleasing.
9. I rarely start an oil portrait straight with oils – I will always start with an undersketch done in charcoal.
10. While I really enjoy traditional portraiture, I feel it is more technical practice than having any real, interesting place in the contemporary art scene.
11. I am hesitant to learn new mediums and would rather excel at a few than be familiar with many.
12. I work very slowly and methodically.
13. My working process is about reflection more than action.
1. I tend to work small because I want the viewer to connect on a private and personal level.
ReplyDelete2. Internet art can be closely related to my collages.
3. I plan every detail before I start working.
4. I am primarily influenced by my grandfathers photography.
5. I hate getting my hands messy so I work mainly on the computer.
6. Working slow and concentrating on technicality is crucial.
7. Using outside reference images goes against my believe in originality.
8. Contemporary art is dumb.
9. Sociology is my main inspiration.
10. It is important to me to build every aspect of a finished piece.
11. I am addicted to traveling.
12. Color is only there to grab the viewers attention.
13. As an artist, I began my journey as a musician.
Julia Weishaupt
ReplyDelete1. I focus on permanence and all my work is designed to be permanent.
2. My art is always representational.
3. I like to jump into a project without doing research about the
materials or the concepts first.
4. I want my work to stay on a very small scale.
5. Most of my work focuses on my past and recreating it.
6. I never look to nature for inspiration.
7. The process of making my art is unimportant—what matters is the end
result.
8. I always prefer color to black and white in my 2D work.
9. I do not like to work on more than one piece at a time.
10. I am interested in site-specific pieces and hope to create more
site-specific pieces in the future.
11. My aunt was a painter and sculptor, but I feel no connection to her
work.
12. I want my work to make the viewer question my materials and process.
13. I often use found objects in my work.
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ReplyDelete1. my work is inspired by my love of urban settings
ReplyDelete2. I want my work to exist mainly in the gallery setting
3. I don't want my work to interact with viewers
4. my work is not meant to be understood completely
5. I choose my materials and processes at random
6. My work strongly references architecture
7. I want viewers to feel a strong connection to the natural world
8. I want my work to be obvious and easy to interpret
9. My art is made for consumption
10. my art is a representation of a single moment in time, a single feeling, or a single action
11. I prefer bright, even neon colors
12. I always reference history in my work
13. I don't care about what medium I use as long as the work looks good
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ReplyDelete1. Once I start a series, I need to finish it completely before moving on.
ReplyDelete2. I tend to over analyze my work.
3. I like to work mainly on personal, conceptual pieces.
4. When I am working, I don't like to share my ideas with others, I like to keep everything secretive.
5. I tend to photograph more than one series/idea at a time.
6. I don't like to use studio lighting with my work.
7. I get most of my ideas for work when I am either in the shower, or driving.
8. Animation is definitely something I would want to look more into as a P.D.A major.
9. Color palette is not a big deal when it comes to my photography.
10. I would rather photograph at night than in the morning.
11. I don't like to take risks with my work.
12. I enjoy photographing landscapes, butterflies, and other pretty things.
13. Listening to music distracts me while making work in the studio.
LIZ HARRIS
ReplyDeleteI enjoy manipulating materials so that they lend to to meaning or concept of my work.
I approach my work from a straight forward 2-D point of view that then develops into a 3-D object.
My concepts are always in flux.
Clay is not my main medium.
Process as art is an important concept to me.
My work deals with the body.
My work is neither angular nor organic.
I actively discard the use of color.
My work is science and math based/ influenced.
My work is intended to provoke strong emotions.
Intuition plays a big part in my studio practice.
My work contains an interactive element.
My work emits a feeling of loneliness or isolation.
Carolyn Pucci
ReplyDelete1. I like to create artwork that is politically charged.
2. There is nothing I enjoy more than creating an uncomfortable feeling in my viewer.
3. I like using dark colors.
4. If I am not organized, I can not start working.
5. I hate childish things.
6. I make sure every mark is perfectly placed.
7. I like working in large scale.
8. I have no interest in science and technology.
9. I find edible art immature.
10. Philadelphia is a very important influence on my artwork.
11. I am interested in cultural relativism.
12. Dark humor usually finds it way in to my artwork.
13. I like to drink wine while I make art.
Amy Trout
ReplyDeleteMy work stems from personal experience.
I have a hard time thinking past the frame of photography.
My work is purely made with clients or the viewer in mind.
Conceptual work is all that is worth hanging on the wall.
I believe my work should represent some sort of truth.
I produce work purely for school/assignment based.
Photography has no gray area in art.
I use my work as a form of therapy.
I prefer digital over film photography.
My work always has artificial lighting.
My photography is always staged.
I keep my photography as traditional as possible.
My favorite thing about my work is talking about it.
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ReplyDelete1. I enjoy working on illustrator and photoshop to create my textiles
ReplyDelete2. I work by drawing or painting by hand and then I scan them into the computer to work up the files digitally
3. My textiles are colorful and playful
4. My focus in textiles is surface pattern design
5. I find photoshop a fast way to work up experimental ideas
6. My textiles don't use botany and nature
7. I want to work as a textile design intern during the summer
8. The interplay between pattern, color and shapes interests me
9.My textile designs are quick to render
10. Mood boards and concept boards are not important to my process
11. I often research trends and various current uses of textiles
12. I am interested in new approaches of textile design, including 3D printing and laser cutting
13. I take inspiration from jewelry, paintings, fashion and other textile work when developing a new series
Elizabeth Stricker
ReplyDelete1. I believe that the energy companies that are fracking in Pennsylvania, should not have to disclose what the chemicals are that they inject into the ground.
2. When I don’t know what I want to say with my art, my comfortable fallback position is to focus on color and pattern.
3. I try not to use black in any of my work.
4. I created a six-foot tall sculpture of a chess piece out of paper mache.
5. I am an avid fan of FOX News, and I believe that their news is carefully researched and fact based.
6. I express my interest in environmental and social justice issues through my art.
7. When I wear my foil hat with antennae made from copper wire, I can receive signals from low frequency radio stations.
8. I have really good eyesight, and I like to work in a miniature format. I have made sculptures out of pencil lead.
9. My work is mostly about memory.
10. Some plants can process toxic waste in the soil, then be burned to get rid the residue safely.
11. I prefer my work to be representational, though I am able to make abstract work.
12. Travel is not important to my work because I can find everything I need on the internet.
13. Most of my work is about popular culture,