Musings on types of art I like to create
May. 18th, 2009 06:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mattbellIn one of the art museums I visited today, there was a quote on the wall
In my art I try to answer the question: “Who am I? Who are you?” Questions of identity and the soul are important to me.
He had a series of mostly uninteresting portraits. I did see other exhibits at other museums that did make me think about the identities of people in the picture or various aspects of human nature, but not necessarily the concept of the soul in general. I usually approach questions of identity and the soul in a very rational/psychological sort of way.
It's interesting to think about what kind of art I like to create. I enjoy doing things that:
- Make use of some natural phenomenon to generate an aesthetically pleasing image or movie (the natural phenomenon could be a mathematical formula, a way that dyes mix, a way that a plant grows etc)
- Plays with tricks of human perception to create interesting effects higher up in the human mind's visual processing.
- Seems mysterious or magical because it uses unusual techniques that people are unfamiliar with
- Play with light and shadow
- Plays with the superposition of geometrical forms.
- Has humor or irony value
- Is interactive or social in that people are able to touch or climb inside it, and the art facilitates social interaction between the people experiencing it.
I generally don't deal with human subjects unless they're part of the art.
I'm not including photography in this – I tend to have a wider range of subjects when I'm photographing.
So I think it would be interesting to try drawing poartraits. I will be terrible at it... i'm more or less terrible at representaitonal drawing to begin with, but I want to see if picking up some skill in this area changes the way I perceive and remember human faces.
In my art I try to answer the question: “Who am I? Who are you?” Questions of identity and the soul are important to me.
He had a series of mostly uninteresting portraits. I did see other exhibits at other museums that did make me think about the identities of people in the picture or various aspects of human nature, but not necessarily the concept of the soul in general. I usually approach questions of identity and the soul in a very rational/psychological sort of way.
It's interesting to think about what kind of art I like to create. I enjoy doing things that:
- Make use of some natural phenomenon to generate an aesthetically pleasing image or movie (the natural phenomenon could be a mathematical formula, a way that dyes mix, a way that a plant grows etc)
- Plays with tricks of human perception to create interesting effects higher up in the human mind's visual processing.
- Seems mysterious or magical because it uses unusual techniques that people are unfamiliar with
- Play with light and shadow
- Plays with the superposition of geometrical forms.
- Has humor or irony value
- Is interactive or social in that people are able to touch or climb inside it, and the art facilitates social interaction between the people experiencing it.
I generally don't deal with human subjects unless they're part of the art.
I'm not including photography in this – I tend to have a wider range of subjects when I'm photographing.
So I think it would be interesting to try drawing poartraits. I will be terrible at it... i'm more or less terrible at representaitonal drawing to begin with, but I want to see if picking up some skill in this area changes the way I perceive and remember human faces.
