ART DISCUSSION: What is art? Who/what inspires you?

[t11time]

I love listening to jazz as well

 

[lebronh8er]

I really like the 10 commandments of art posted here, nice touch. If my art teacher had been less annoying, I probably would have stuck with it, he ended up making me hate art all together.

 

[t11time]

 

[t11time]

Just watched "The Art of the Steal" I'm so furious smh....

 

[drewdioxin]

It's weird seeing Kruger mentioned cuz I am doing a piece in digital art like hers.

 

[t11time]

^Pix/info?

 

[boys noize]

Hey everybody, glad to see this thread still alive and well. I've been busy this past month during my school's winter break. Spent a couple weeks in Asia and spent some time back home in the Bay and also in LA visiting friends. It was good not thinking about art for awhile.
I feel refreshed for this next, and final, semester of undergrad.I'm taking painting and black and white photography again, and also taking sculpture for the first time. I have some exciting ideas in mind for these classes for the next few months.

While in LA, I revisited the LACMA and saw the recently unveiled sculpture Metropolis II by Chris Burden (the same guy that crucified himself on a VW Beetle, shot himself, and created the iconic lamp post installation outside the LACMA.)



I thought the sculpture was brilliant. It reminded me of the crazy Hot Wheels tracks I used to erect as a kid around my living room. 

I saw this video recently of a Japanese artist named Riusuke Fukahori who paints goldfish on layers of resin to create ultra-realistic and three-dimensional paintings. Really cool stuff.

 

[boys noize]

As far as music goes, it changes with my mood. I'll post some tracks from artists that I've been digging on recently. I'm usually drawn to music that creates an atmosphere, regardless of genre.First, two of my all time favorite shoegaze tracks.



 
 Recent stuff I've been playing.

 

[smedroc]

Got Tomer Hanukas book 'Overkill' today... Having prints to hand is way better than gawking at his illustrations online

I always think how i should get back to sketching when i see his work. His use of colour, the compositions, the lines... @$@% is just fire.

Some of his work:

 

[nocomment6]

These have been getting a lot of attention on the internet for the past few days, but are very nice indeed:

http://www.designboom.com...toshopped-in-colour.html

 

[t11time]

Tomer Hanukas work is AMAZING! Im currently on his website and blog....Beautiful illustrations

 

[nocomment6]

Grimes is wicked, thanks for that.

 

[willd540]

for anybody in NYC, check out this infinity environment light and space artist Doug Wheeler created at David Zwirner gallery 

 

[fog]

Anyone wanna put me on artists who deal with readymade or found object sculptures?

 

[p0tat0 5alad]

I really like listen to stuff that just relaxes me. 
-Deadmau5

-StewRat (NTer

)

-Madlib

-Kaskade

-Washed Out

-Daft Punk

-Silversun Pickups

-Steve Miller Band

-RJD2

-UNKLE

-DJ Shadow

-Mt Eden

-Armin Van Buuren

 

[willd540]

Originally Posted by FOG

Anyone wanna put me on artists who deal with readymade or found object sculptures?

duchamp

picasso

kurt schwitters

man ray

Piero Manzoni's readymade $$#%

rauschenberg

joseph bueys

Nam June Paik

jeff koons 

damien hirst

Richard Prince

dash snow

dan colen

(pushed over motorcycles)

(pushed over bball backboards)

Cau Guo-Qiang (taxadermied wolves)

 

[t11time]

 

[nocomment6]

Was there a performance with the pushed over backboards Dan Colen did?

The diversity of art astounds me constantly. I mean its so absurd that the flipped over motorbikes and Chapel of Sistene are so close, but yet again so distant from each other...

 

[t11time]

Anyone have shots of the Walt Disney ex in Frisco?

 

[fog]

Originally Posted by WILLd540

Originally Posted by FOG

Anyone wanna put me on artists who deal with readymade or found object sculptures?

Amazing stuff, thanks for sharing!

I'll post some when I get home, but if there are any more, please do post

 

[nocomment6]

An interview regarding Ai Weiwei, plus a documentary is going to be introduced about him at Sundance this year.


http://news.yahoo.com/blo...man-china-031811739.html

 

[juggy4805]

Slept on this thread.

Mostly get inspired by music and old photos.

Currently listening to:
Skrillex
Kaskade
12th Planet
Avicii
Adele


A few images I've been looking at for inspiration.

 

[nocomment6]

WHo's in the second picture, can't make out his face. Picasso?

 

[boys noize]

Originally Posted by nocomment6

An interview regarding Ai Weiwei, plus a documentary is going to be introduced about him at Sundance this year.


http://news.yahoo.com/blo...man-china-031811739.html

I posted this documentary by the BBC months ago but maybe some might have missed it. Really good watch.

 

[lukewarm skywalker]

Paris
February 17, 1903
Dear Sir,

     Your letter arrived just a few days ago. I want to thank you for the great confidence you have placed in me. That is all I can do. I cannot discuss your verses; for any attempt at criticism would be foreign to me. Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsay able than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.

     With this note as a preface, may I just tell you that your verses have no style of their own, although they do have silent and hidden beginnings of something personal. I feel this most clearly in the last poem, "My Soul." There, some thing of your own is trying to become word and melody. And in the lovely poem "To Leopardi" a kind of kinship with that great, solitary figure does perhaps appear. Nevertheless, the poems are not yet anything in themselves, not yet any thing independent, even the last one and the one to Leopardi. Your kind letter, which accompanied them managed to make clear to me various faults that I felt in reading your verses, though I am not able to name them specifically.

     You ask whether your verses are any good. You ask me. You have asked others before this. You send them to magazines. You compare them with other poems, and you are upset when certain editors reject your work. Now (since you have said you want my advice) I beg you to stop doing that sort of thing. You are looking outside, and that is what you should most avoid right now. No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. This most of all: ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write? Dig into yourself for a deep answer. And if this answer rings out in assent, if you meet this solemn question with a strong, simple "I must", then build your life in accordance with this necessity; your whole life, even into its humblest and most indifferent hour, must become a sign and witness to this impulse. Then come close to Nature. Then, as if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose. Don't write love poems; avoid those forms that are too facile and ordinary: they are the hardest to work with, and it takes a great, fully ripened power to create something individual where good, even glorious, traditions exist in abundance. So rescue yourself from these general themes and write about what your everyday life offers you; describe your sorrows and desires, the thoughts that pass through your mind and your belief in some kind of beauty Describe all these with heartfelt, silent, humble sincerity and, when you express yourself, use the Things around you, the images from your dreams, and the objects that you remember. If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is no poverty and no poor, indifferent place. And even if you found yourself in some prison, whose walls let in none of the world's sound - wouldn't you still have your childhood, that jewel beyond all price, that treasure house of memories? Turn your attention to it. Try to raise up the sunken feelings of this enormous past; your personality will grow stronger, your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes by, far in the distance. And if out of , this turning within, out of this immersion in your own world, poems come, then you will not think of asking anyone whether they are good or not. Nor will you try to interest magazines in these works: for you will see them as your dear natural possession, a piece of your life, a voice from it. A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it. So, dear Sir, I can't give you any advice but this: to go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows; at its source you will find the answer to, the question of whether you must create. Accept that answer, just as it is given to you, without trying to interpret it. Perhaps you will discover that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself, and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside. For the creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted.

     But after this descent into yourself and into your solitude, perhaps you will have to renounce becoming a poet (if, as I have said, one feels one could live without writing, then one shouldn't write at all). Nevertheless, even then, this self searching that I ask of you will not have been for nothing. Your life will still find its own paths from there, and that they may be good, rich, and wide is what I wish for you, more than I can say.

     What else can I tell you? It seems to me that everything has its proper emphasis; and finally I want to add just one more bit of advice: to keep growing, silently and earnestly, through your whole development; you couldn't disturb it any more violently than by looking outside and waiting for outside answers to questions that only your innermost feeling, in your quietest hour, can perhaps answer.

     It was a pleasure for me to find in your letter the name of Professor Horacek; I have great reverence for that kind, learned man, and a gratitude that has lasted through the years. Will you please tell him how I feel; it is very good of him to still think of me, and I appreciate it.

     The poem that you entrusted me with, I am sending back to you. And I thank you once more for your questions and sincere trust, of which, by answering as honestly as I can, I have tried to make myself a little worthier than I, as a stranger, really am.

Yours very truly,

Rainer Maria Rilke

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