LEARN FROM ART, ART FROM LEARN
what does art mean to me?
art has been an emotional journey for me ever since i first picked up a pencil. it started out as an ego, then it turned into an ego i had to maintain. what could have been fun drawing was quickly something i did becuase i felt like i had to. a neroses in where failing to make "good" art was failing the expectiations and hopes of others. once i graduated highschool i had this terrible combination of avoiding drawing but also feeling like it was my while puropsoe in life. at the back of my every waking moment was a need to create, but i was shackled by an insurmountable fear wittling away at my will..... one day last year though, i picked up my old camera and went outto take some pics, an then i went home and edited them, and afterwards i had a very big revelation. i just had /fun/ wiht art. entirely on accident, but all for the better. ir ealised whta it felt like to create for the sole skae of exploration. for the sake of myself. art is something that should align with who you are, and what you want, and looks different every single day of your life. you can learn life lesssons from creating art, and you can create art from life lessons. ever since i foudn what i want art to feel like, i try my best to take my own life with the same ebb and flow. in and out, give and take, inout and output, over and over.
what do i enjoy in others art?
when it comes to the art i like to look at, ive always had a fancy for a few things. 1. I like when people explore what is considered "ugly" but in a beautiful light. things that are old, tarnished, abnormally textured. I have a very soft spot in my heart for the hated, and am very bored of the beautiful weve seen beauty before! theres enough conventionality! the world is so crammed full of an obsession with goodness, success, and prowess that its no longer an art but an expectation. and whats the fun in that? 2. i love good texture and overlaying images onto one another =^.^=
Photographers I admire:
traditional artists I admire:
- Felicia Forte
- Denis Sarazhin
- contains body horror: Emma Hopkins
- contains gore: Dusty Ray
Felicia has been an artist I've admired since 2015. The hazy reality of her more-mundane subjects has always captivated me. Its as if she were painting a dream of eating a sandwich, or a old memory of a place you used to call home. Felicia spends a lot of her time teaching others to paint in private lessons, but also is generous enough to post herself coaching people through philosophies and artist problems on her instagram. The adice she posts is about staying free of external anxieties in your art, and letting your art grow in its own way in its own time. Listening to her speak on these things you not only wish to apply these on the canvas, but begin to wonder how much of it you can apply to the rest of life. in letting your art come straight from the soul, free and unfiltered, you may begin to yearn to let your life come straight from the soul as well.
Dennis is an artist from Ukraine. His use of exaggeration of every muscle on figurative paintings has made the human body into an ocean of rich texture and appeal. I love to hear his story, as he had origionally set out to become a chef, and completed his degree in the culinary professsion. when it wasnt a good fit, he set out to try pogramming, and just took an art class as an elective. the art class so immediately filled him with passion that he knew then and there that it was his true calling. The world has been blesssed by this realisation as i beleive dennis to be a master of our time, and am only excited to see how his art evolves over the years, never failing us on captivating uses of light and form.
(temp desc.) emma hopkins is an artist ive admired for a long time. ive always been someone who has found deep, almsot perverse fascination in the "unconventional" human body. the beauty in fatness, the rawness in nudity, the texture of scars, burns, flesh, and the thrill of a subject who looks right back at you as you look at them. emma has found the most amazing way of bringing all of these things to the table, with a wonderful combination of painstaking detail, and suggestive abstract strokes. emma brings the shock of body horror to the table, but in such a way that you dont want to look away. it invites, it pleases the eye, it almost seems to think about you too. and for this ive always loved emmas work. as much as i love the many artists who stick to the beauty fo the beautiful for the masses, emma is willing to bring out the beautful of the outcast.
Did somebody say texture?????
texturetexturetexture. get photos for these. if the page gets too big possibly add links to my own personal article for why i like these artists. perhaps a tidbit on what i like about art in general. (oh but doesnt that answer change by the minute!)