Mark of Venus--Future Project

What Mark Deon would make if he lived in a 22nd Venus Project future. Please see the Mark of Venus paper for a more detailed description of project.

First short project

20 mins to represent change.

Abstraction-The Curator Project

For this project we were given a New York Gallery, and we had to research it to see what the current art work has in common...an overall feel of the gallery. Then we were to come up with a way to radically change the artwork or artists the museum hosted. We would be curatoring this new show at the Gallery. My Gallery was the Yosi Milo Gallery, which is a photography gallery. I noticed that the subject matter and types of photographs and such were all very broad, so I had to look for something else. So I noticed that all the pictures were very much in focus and what u saw was what it was for the most part. So that made me think about abstract paintings and other abstract art forms, and wondered if photography could also become abstract. I came up with 11 different ways to abtract a photograph, which is discussed in my paper. Here are the images I used.

Abtraction-My Paper for our Curator Project

For our last major Project we had to write a 2000 word paper along with the project. My project was about a new abstract movement in photographic art. At first glance my paper seems to not make any sense, like an abtract piece of art, but if you keep looking, you will find meaning in it.

Abstraction

My Anti-Artist Statement

This is an anti-artist statement, also known as a statement against the current art-world conventions. True artists would not seal themselves off to merely one subject matter, type, or way of creating art. I may primarily be a photographer, but that is not all I do, nor is it all that I want to do. My interests change as I develop. So, although I may explore my own personal issues and use art as therapeutic means for one project that does not mean that I will not explore social or scientific issues for my next project.

These laws box artists in, which only wounds our creative process. I am not against presenting information about artists and their works. But that is something that should be done with each show or even each piece, if needed. I will not classify myself and my art style because I cannot. I refuse definition.

Blaine De St. Croix

Blane De St. Croix was an interesting artists lecture that I attending last Tuesday. He is a sculptor and drawer. His works have to do with social issues in nature. For instance, he made an extremely large sculptor of the border fence between the United States and Mexico. He usually does a ton of research for each other his projects, and although he was told he couldn’t do research for this fence project he did. When he went to document to fence for recreation he tried to speak to anyone he could about it to get their opinions. Despite whatever view he might have had, he heard both sides of the story. I felt like his drawings were extremely outstanding. They were done so in such a way that parts of the drawings actually looked like photographs. I thought that they were great, although he kind of seems to view his drawings as a side project or something that he uses in the progress of his sculptures.

He spent a lot of time talking about a project he did in West Virginia about the coal mining industry and what it is doing to our beautiful mountains. I was personally interested in this because much of my family comes from Virginia and Tennessee where coal mining is also popular. My grandfather used to be a coal miner, but he was from the era when they still did it underground. Blaine spoke about coal mining that literally takes the tops of mountains right off. It is very sad. His sculptor of the upside down mountain was great.

Everything he makes, he makes exactly as it looks in real life, only miniature. He has an extraordinary eye for detail. Although it was not as funny or entertaining as the last artists lecture I went to, I enjoyed it equally because he was very sincere and passionate.

The Art of Maximizing Your Time

The chapter, “The Art of Maximizing Your Time,” was much more beneficial to me than the chapter I read previously (although it is actually after this one in the book). I had already been contemplating what was in common with the works I had done this semester in concepts. And although not all of my works have this in common, I feel that at this moment what makes my art special or what it is about I guess is me, in a way. I use art as a way of exploring personal issues I have, but I won’t get into that now, because I shall save that for my artist statement. This chapter not only confirmed how I felt about my own works, but it was also inspiring. It told of several artists who put everything that had into their art, which makes it all the more powerful. Sadly, this chapter did remind of the old idea that artists only become famous and/or popular after they die. All of the artists talked about in this chapter died fairly early on, way before someone should have to depart. To think that I may have to lose everything and also die before anyone takes my art seriously is a little sad, but I also know that that is not always the case, therefore I have hope. I am not sure that I entirely understand the title of the chapter or what the author meant by it. I mean he spoke of an artist who pretty much wasted away working on one painting practically her entire life and losing everything important because of this. I don’t know if one would argue that this artist really maximized her time. Although because of the way she let herself go in this painting, it made her famous (mainly after she died of course). And now people would argue that that painting is a masterpiece, so maybe she did make good use of her time because many people and artists never make a masterpiece ever.