Family..
Is a term used to describe a primary social group; parents and children. The social unit that we are born into, raised by and usually spend a vast amount of our lives with, or so we'd like to think..
For some people this isn't true, and for others this is taken away from them at some stage in their lives, whether deat plays a part in it, or just a seperation of the parents, siblings or whatever.
Either way.. "family" is hard!
I cannot even begin to understand mine, the list of disfunctions within my family is completely endless. I wouldn't even know where to begin.
Unsure of them, this doesn't mean i don't love them, and recently i have had a few reasons to challenge my love for them. It's actually quite hard to bear.
I don't think that anyone should have to watch what i have had to watch. Ever.
Even with what's going on around me i feel as if it makes me more aware of situations around me, more able to rely on my own independance. I can't say i enjoy watching this but i feel a shove into an emotion atmosphere helps you with the odd events life tends to throw at us, at random intervals when ever it likes.
I'm unsure of what path the next few weeks will take, i'm not sure how i'll end up, but i know i'll have help. I know it'll reap some benefits..
I'm hoping so anyway.
Monday, 30 November 2009
Friday, 27 November 2009
Assessing creativity.
An artist,
Someone who dedicates their life to the portrayal of creativity in any for of media they choose. Someone that looks at life in a number of ways, from abstraction, minimalism and futurism, to merely drawing what they see in front of them in a realistic "still life" approach.
How can this someone possibly be assessed on what they do?
I often wonder if there should be such a term as an "art institute", a place that artist go... To go and do what, learn? To follow the paths of tutors? Who are merely taking the artists away from their own creative paths. I don't quite understand how young artists are meant to follow their creativity and at the same time, jump through the various hoops laid out by the educational boards.. ?
As much as I contradict myself, being an art student, I have come to realise this strange truth.
The art institution chooses, picks, decides between all it's board members as to what can in fact be classed as art, but what can be classed as art then? For example, Marcel Duchamp's fountain, this infamous piece of art is a great example. Being rejected by the institute, not being allowed to be classed as art, then went on to be one of the most famous pieces of art work in the 20th century.
Can you really choose what is art?
How can you tell?
Surely it's too much of a personal subject?
How can we students be educated to fit into the art world? When we don't even have the guarantee that we will make it. All this jumping through hoops just for a letter of rejection from galleries and other such institutes, stateing that our works may not be classed as art.
I don't quite understand how this works.
But as my education grows, I realise that I truely hope one day I manage to beat the institution, making them re-think all these ideas they have of what can be classed as art.
Someone who dedicates their life to the portrayal of creativity in any for of media they choose. Someone that looks at life in a number of ways, from abstraction, minimalism and futurism, to merely drawing what they see in front of them in a realistic "still life" approach.
How can this someone possibly be assessed on what they do?
I often wonder if there should be such a term as an "art institute", a place that artist go... To go and do what, learn? To follow the paths of tutors? Who are merely taking the artists away from their own creative paths. I don't quite understand how young artists are meant to follow their creativity and at the same time, jump through the various hoops laid out by the educational boards.. ?
As much as I contradict myself, being an art student, I have come to realise this strange truth.
The art institution chooses, picks, decides between all it's board members as to what can in fact be classed as art, but what can be classed as art then? For example, Marcel Duchamp's fountain, this infamous piece of art is a great example. Being rejected by the institute, not being allowed to be classed as art, then went on to be one of the most famous pieces of art work in the 20th century.
Can you really choose what is art?
How can you tell?
Surely it's too much of a personal subject?
How can we students be educated to fit into the art world? When we don't even have the guarantee that we will make it. All this jumping through hoops just for a letter of rejection from galleries and other such institutes, stateing that our works may not be classed as art.
I don't quite understand how this works.
But as my education grows, I realise that I truely hope one day I manage to beat the institution, making them re-think all these ideas they have of what can be classed as art.
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