Week 10 Day 1: Play with art
Can working with art at some point be considered as "playing" with art? Is art fun? Is art an experience? Is art an experiment?
I must admit when I hear the word "play" by itself, I immediate visualise a stage, with actors in costumes, reciting lines in something like a school play. Things are organized and practiced, rehearsals happen and new things are tried. Preparing for the ultimate performance soon to happen in the future. The show is perfected up to the performance. However there is another word "play" and that is when I think of children in a park, girls with dolls, boys with trucks using their imagination creating situations even calamities to overcome and eventually figure things out. It is a learning process, taking things they have observed and putting it into application. Practicing for the future. Can "play" be applied to art?
While I work on my art, often times I make mistakes, or something happens I wasn't prepared for (good or bad) and I have to make alterations and adapt in order to continue with my creation. I half the time experiment. Vincent Van Gogh said " I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it." In that sense I end up creating a situation that I need to overcome. If I look at it through the theatrical word, I am rehearsing, perfecting, trying new things in my studio, preparing for my final piece that will later be shown. While the art is being viewed or in an exhibit, shouldn't it be experienced? Just as a child experiences the rush of a slide in a playground could there be an experience in art? Isn't a school play an experience for the audience?
Even though most of what I have written down are questions, I have an answer for myself. That art can be play, art can be playful, art is experimental, art is practiced, art is an experience, yes art can be play. However, that is the answer for me...not necessarily the answer for you and thus art is subjective.
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Andy Goldsworthy
Week 6 Day 1: Andy Goldsworthy response paper
Today in class we watched a documentary about Andy Goldsworthy Rivers and Tides, Working with Time. I at times found him to be so focused and involved with his art, that it seemed li
ke his mind had little space for anything else. He creates pieces within nature, with nature, using tools he finds in the environment. It's clear he loves being outdoors, though difficult and rough on him, it seems he tries to be one with the realm he is in. Allowing his surroundings to depict what the art will be. Most of his works are temporary lasting anywhere from minuets, hours, to perhaps a few years. He views the destruction of his art not as destruction (unless it falls apart before he is finished) but as a gift to nature. His method is old fashioned, however revolutionary if looking at it in a "green" perspective. Never introducing something man made into his art, simply natural elements and media.
Goldsworthy main inspiration would be water and how it flows from the river to the sea, parts are rough and strong while other parts are still and quite and smooth. He allows the river to inspire his line work. He often creates a line fluid and moving back and forth like a river bends. One of my favorite scenes would be when he linked at least 200 hundred green leaves together creating a long line and places them in a still section of a river, and the current slowly drifted the long strand down the flow of water creating this almost dance. I became nearly hypnotised with the fluidity and femininity and g
race of the leaves in the water(Link). Water to me is the most beautiful thing in our world. The way it is harmful and harmless. It's slow, and fast, gentle and hard. Life giving and life taking. There is a tragic beauty in water and the way Andy Goldsworthy uses it in his art is unique in today's art scene.
Today in class we watched a documentary about Andy Goldsworthy Rivers and Tides, Working with Time. I at times found him to be so focused and involved with his art, that it seemed li
ke his mind had little space for anything else. He creates pieces within nature, with nature, using tools he finds in the environment. It's clear he loves being outdoors, though difficult and rough on him, it seems he tries to be one with the realm he is in. Allowing his surroundings to depict what the art will be. Most of his works are temporary lasting anywhere from minuets, hours, to perhaps a few years. He views the destruction of his art not as destruction (unless it falls apart before he is finished) but as a gift to nature. His method is old fashioned, however revolutionary if looking at it in a "green" perspective. Never introducing something man made into his art, simply natural elements and media.Goldsworthy main inspiration would be water and how it flows from the river to the sea, parts are rough and strong while other parts are still and quite and smooth. He allows the river to inspire his line work. He often creates a line fluid and moving back and forth like a river bends. One of my favorite scenes would be when he linked at least 200 hundred green leaves together creating a long line and places them in a still section of a river, and the current slowly drifted the long strand down the flow of water creating this almost dance. I became nearly hypnotised with the fluidity and femininity and g
race of the leaves in the water(Link). Water to me is the most beautiful thing in our world. The way it is harmful and harmless. It's slow, and fast, gentle and hard. Life giving and life taking. There is a tragic beauty in water and the way Andy Goldsworthy uses it in his art is unique in today's art scene.
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