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I’ve heard of that documentary before but now I will definitely need to see it. Herb and Dorothy are art collectors. They have more than 4,000 pieces with a very modest income.
What I found interesting is the filmmaker’s notes about her own documentary. She hit a wall after only six month of production when she realized that Herb and Dorothy never could explain with words why they bought their art except saying “we liked it”.
She writes in the film website: “Then Lucio Pozzi, the very first artist I interviewed, opened my eyes. His response to my dilemma was, “That’s why the Vogels are very special. Why should you explain art? What’s the need to verbalize art? Herb and Dorothy only look, look and look. That’s their way of communicating with art and artists.” This breakthrough in my thinking about them allowed one of the deep themes of the project to emerge. I started paying attention to how they look at art, instead of how they talk about it. Herb in particular doesn’t talk much, but I realized that his eyes do the talking, when looking at art – with great intensity.”
Shouldn’t art be look with the eyes instead of being explained with words?
How interesting…
January 14th, 2009
I found a great article in the AIGA web site about the difference between art and design. What’s even more interesting are the many comments you can read at the end about what real art should be. Here are some that I liked :
- One cannot portray ideas and emotions in the modern art world being swayed by the preceding works of the artist before him or her, yet in order to express new thought an artist has to carefully step through a field of what has already been accomplished. (…) the artist needs to fill the holes that the predecessors had not. (…) The artist needs to balance a new school of thought based on prior and present inquiries without trespassing on the questions that have already been answered. - by T. O’Meara
- I disagree with T O’Meara’s post, because eventually and inevitably, all ideas will have been explored. i appreciate the irresponsibly spontaneity of someone who makes their art without considering past or future trends. architects did this in the early 1900s, youth culture did this in the 60s. both movements were reacting against something, rather than carefully deciding how to fit in amongst existing circumstances. you don’t need to evaluate what’s been done – you have to ignore it, or react against it, to come up with something completely new. – by Anonymous
- Artists create artwork (just as in the Renaissance) for commissions, for shows, for political reasons – the point of being an artist is to create something to be seen. There is always an audience. Whether the artist is creating a piece of work for a single friend or a widely publicized opening, there is someone looking at it and interpreting it. Artists speak to people through their work, and typically how well they do that determines how successful of a career they have. So, in my opinion, artists are designers and designers are artists. There are career choices that tend to separate us and force us to label ourselves one or the other, but our purpose, our methods, and our reasons all are the same – we have to do what we do, we do not have a choice – we have to create to live. – by Katie Fillingim
- The processes of the two [design and art] can be quite similar, the results may look quite a bit alike, both are done for an audience and often for money. But despite all that, they function much differently. Design solves problems. Art asks questions. - by Evan
December 16th, 2008
“…it’s that they believe that artists can’t make money — the classic “starving artist.” What’s missing today is the notion that artists and designers are among the most passionate people about what they do; and this world needs more passion. There’s too much logic, too much systematic thinking, too much hope that the systems will save us…”
- John Maeda, in an interview by architects.org.
December 12th, 2008
So I finally signed up into different social media web sites (anything so socialize, even online, to know more about people in my new city). And now I’ve forgotten to blog. Social media is infinite, I don’t know where to write/talk/answer/post photos etc, should I connect all of them and write only in one place? But twitter quotes are not fully interesting for my blog, and posting images from my portfolio on facebook doesn’t seems to fit. We’ll see if I can find some balance…
December 8th, 2008
I would like to discuss about artists who use graphic design as a style. I would like to share about this idea that graphic design can be use in a non-commercial way and as a pure artistic tool.How do you create art with design?Where do you exhibit you work?Which galleries/cities/places understand that design can be art?
December 2nd, 2008
Quand on est créatif, l’est-on automatiquement dans tous les aspects de la vie? Est-ce que toutes les formes d’art m’intéresseraient? J’y pense parce que bien que j’ai toujours eu une prédilection pour l’image, je n’ai pourtant jamais mis de côté d’autres formes d’art, même si je les pratiquais on-the-side. La musique est un exemple. L’écriture en est une autre. Par contre, je ne me sens pas qualitfiée dans ces deux derniers là. Bien que les ayant pratiquer depuis longtemps, ils ne me viennent pas aussi facilement que la création de visuels. Pourtant. spontannément aujourd’hui je me disais comment je pourrais créer ce je-ne-sais-quoi qui a besoin de sortir de moi et je n’ai pas vu d’image. J’ai vu des mots. J’ai visualisé des mots. Donc je ne suis pas trop loin de l’image. Parce que je me disais que peut-être si la poésie n’est pas pour moi, si je n’ai pas de dons pour les significations ou les sonorités, peut-être que je suis capable d’écrire et de jumeler des mots pour leur aspect esthétique. Je vais penser à ça…
September 4th, 2008
As far as I can remember, I’ve always drew eyes and mouth. Often only one of them. Oh, I tried to put them together, but I didn’t like the result that much. I think I can find them on any book, moleskine or diary I had since… 14 years old? So it’s not a surprise that this theme has came out in most of my artistic photographic montage. I don’t know if it’s an obsession, but I can’t do otherwise. I like really simple lines and patterns. I like to concentrate myself to one subject at a time. Since a mouth or an eye have such beautiful lines, I think it’s a great fit.
June 26th, 2008
A year ago, I came to Cambridge. Only for a week-end. I saw the Strata Center and walk around Boston and a little in the MIT Campus. Well I’m back again.
I thought I might look at Harvard campus this time and try to find some nice art galleries. Part of this process is to continue my personal “art studies” which I felt I set aside since Paris. I’ve been experimenting but it’s good to go back to the basis. I’m not looking for great “masters” of art, but to be touch again and to understand new things.
So I went to the Carpenter Center of art in the Harvard Campus which is the only Le Corbusier building in the US..(!!). Well besides the fact that the concrete of the building made great pictures, I wasn’t very impressed by the design. I found an interesting exhibition of senior thesis students in the lobby though. Some of them are extremely original or complete weirdo. I guess that’s what makes art special. I haven’t note anything special in there.
I then went just beside this building which is the Fog Art Museum. Basically, a Harvard own museum. What I note there :
Y’a quelque hose de personnel dans la peinture. L’artiste mis à nu. Chaque tache de peinture est un geste relié à l’artiste. Quiconque regarde les détails d’une oeuvre peut s’imaginer l’artiste devant sa toile au moment même où il appliquait la couleur. Je me demande comment atteindre ce niveau intime avec l’art numérique?
Autre pensée : Beaucoup d’artistes atteignent leur style vers la trentaine, même si les années avant démontrent un talent, l’apogée c’est reconnaître la personne à travers son art.
June 5th, 2008
David Lynch says that the artist doesn’t have to suffer to create. There is nothing edgy about it. The artist has to understand and be conscious about suffering to be able to create. It’s about being sensible and understanding the world around us. Suffering will stop the artist from creating. (from his book Catching the big fish)
May 10th, 2008
I often read about artists and their circle of friends and relatives all related to art (litterature, music, art, poetry, film…) and how together they created new art movement. I recently started a book about the life and work of Pablo Picasso. He was surrounded by artist of all fields but going into the same direction (here cubism). His circle was his inspiration and the reflection of the time he lived in.
I thought it was something missing from my life. Oh, I have friends working in several art fields, but not everyday, not enough discussing about it and the way it’s going. I’m not that much into the art gang. But I made a connection between the café Le lapin agile where Picasso spent most of his time and the internet. The web is such an international art community, it’s so complete. I think I feel more a part of the design slash art web community. I guess it’s now the way modernity is working…
April 14th, 2008
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