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Struggling Artist Trope

There seems to be a common belief that artists don’t “work”,that art flows from their fingers in an effortless manner. Although inspiration can strike and gush through and artist, there are hours and rigorous work put into the arts of any kind. The arts are always put on a lower standing, less serious position in terms of studies compared to physics or business for example but any form of art takes immense focus and time. Art does take work ethic and discipline to make a vision come to life. After the initial idea of period of inspiration that an artist goes through, there is then the follow through of putting the work in to fully realize this idea. The process of creating is exhausting and filled with moments of self doubt and perseverance. I have nothing but awe and respect for artists who put in equally as much work as any other profession. In relation to Jean-Michelle Basquiat, he would put in days of work for painting in his studio. Even though Basquiat partied heavily and was seen as a socialite, make no mistake he worked very hard for his success and to achieve the beauty and expression in his paintings. As an audience we only see the finalized product and the glamour of an artists life but that person has painstakingly revised and perfected their craft before presentation. Art is glorious and magical and amazing how people can conceive of the ideas and creations they do but also, art is hard work coming to fruition.  

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Picture of my current nails inspired by Piet Mondrians colour palette.

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My nails are painted primary blue, yellow and red and as I was serving a table yesterday the customer remarked on them saying they reminded him of an artist. I said that I had been inspired by Piet Mondrian and they agreed that’s who they were thinking of. 

Composition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow, Piet Mondrian, 1930

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This photo was taken in by me in march 2016 when I went traveling with friends to Paris. At the time I didn’t know about Louise Bourgeois but this sculpture drew me in. I’ve always loved hands, their beauty and elegance and the warmth and intimacy they provide. When I saw this sculpture I immediately wanted to hold it and interact with the bronze hands. We all gathered around the sculpture and I took a picture of us holding the hands. It was so interesting watching the documentary on Bourgeois in class and realizing that this was the exact reaction she had wanted from people. It’s so exciting looking back and seeing how her sculpture provoked us all to want to touch the hands, an innocent reaction completely free of context, just as she had intended. 

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Questions from January 18

1-Art informel and art autre are movements that move from representation to abstraction and focus on themes of existentialism and “the void”.

2-Abstraction arose in France after WWII because artists were having a hard time finding and representing humanity after the atrocities of the war (concentration camps, atomic bomb). In order to express their sentiments of grief and guilt about their role in the war, artists moved into more abstraction of the human form that represented their own views of what hummanity had become: frail, broken and ravaged. 

3- Concrete Art was a movement that focused on hard geometric lines and used most;y primary colours. The phrase was first coined by the artist Theo Van Doesburg in the 1930s.

4-Futurism was a very charged art movement in Italy that glorified and marveled at the machine. Futurists rejected everything about the past and historical buildings, instead, wanting to build bigger and better metal, mechanic cities. Futurists wanted to capture energy in paintings that could accurately represent the modern fast paced world they lived in.

5-Lucio Fonato wanted to bring art and painting back to its founding roots and simplicity. Fonato created the Spacial Concept series which consisted of puncturing holes in a canvas with a knife and then painting over the canvas with metallic paint. 

6- CoBrA was a group of around 30 artists in Paris who, after WWII formed together and created works that commented on the devastation of post-war Europe. Their painting style was inspired by children and the mentally ill and had an aggressive energy to it. Artist Karel Appel was very influencial in the group and would find objects of garbage around the city for his work.

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@carlota_guerrero recreates for METAL 37 Versace by Richard Avedon, F/W 1994. Styled by @who_is_carlos Hair and make up by @veromakeup Lighting by @fran___rios Starring Mariana, Alessia S. (Blow Models), Ariel, Andrea Rovira, Sandra Siles (Traffic Models) Borja, Tommy, Mario, Edu, Arnau, Adrián (Blow Models)

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Georgia O’Keeffe (American, 1887-1986), Yellow Sweet Peas, undated. Pastel on paperboard. 

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Left: Henri Matisse, Grande Masque, 1948

Right: Pablo Picasso, Untitled [Face of a Bull] , 1962

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A truly gorgeous work of art

Directed by Alan Ferguson and Solange Knowles Art and Creative Direction Solange Knowles and Carlota Guerrero Director of Photography Arthur Jafa & Alan Ferguson Edited by Solange Knowles & Russell Santos Produced by Eli Cane

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I really love and am inspired by Carlota Guerrero’s work. Here is a recreation of a classic Matisse, Dance 1909-1910

Guerrero does a whole series of these photos.