Knowing the aesthetic is a strange and impossible struggle. Our views change constantly depending on EVERYTHING we've ever seen. What we have seen in the past effects the now and the now effects our thoughts on the past. Our art is what we've seen.
When I first came here to school I knew nothing. I thought that Banksy was a cool artist and that Van Gogh was the best painter. After being yelled at by Pam and after being criticized by Norman I have moved beyond those views. Last year I was taught the principals of design and art. Vision is determined by light and the brightest moment(the focal point) is also the lightest. With that fact in mind my sight has completely changed. Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Hopper kick ass. Van Gogh is better suited for comic books.
I know the aesthetics through experience but how did I get this experience. It wasn't luck or chance. I would spend days searching for and looking though art. MOST OF IT IS BAD. I spent days staring through Vermeer's and Rembrandt's paintings. They had a profound effect on my vision. I now think Banksy is a jerk.
But how does this apply to SSC? Well I have been applying this new sight I have found to the shrine.
This shrine began as nothing more than an exploration of what I am majoring in. Now I find that my thoughts turn to this project at night. How can this be art, not just a project for a grade. I find it difficult to deal with this because I have other things to deal with. I hope my work reflects my ambition.
The aesthetics rule my life completely. I can not escape it and I don't want to. I guess I can only continue my studies of the visual field. I look at art I find that I am less distracted. I stare at art and truths come to me. Now that vision is changing. That shrine must change with it.
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