Wednesday, December 05, 2018
Jerry Saltz: How to Be an Artist
www.vulture.com: Art is for anyone. It’s just not for everyone. I know this viscerally, as a would-be artist who burned out. I wrote about that last year, and ever since, I’ve been beset — every lecture I give, every gallery I pop my head into, somebody is asking me for advice. What they’re really asking is “How can I be an artist?”
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I like that so much of this advice is about deining for yourself what is good, what is right, what is skilled, and what is success. Personally, I agree that art is about doing you and allowing yourself to be free without thinking of how to put yourself in a box defined by others. Let them define your work after its done, let yourself be satisfied first. Recently I had a friend ask me for advice on something she was creating. She claimed to be unhappy just because she did not know if it was good enough or not. The thing she didn’t realize is she wasn’t, in my opinion at least, asking whom it was good enough for. Trying too hard to please others she had lost herself in her work, leaving it not good enough for herself. To be an artist is to do you and put it out there and maybe hate it, maybe be scared about its reception, but to be (at least deep down) proud with what you’ve done because you’ve shown yourself to the world.
Before reading the article, I expected the rules to be very strict and limiting excluding people that defied the norm but I was happy to see that the rules weren’t limiting and focused on the individual. I completely agree with most of the points being made in this article. This article focuses on the artist themselves. It allows them the opportunity to make mistakes and learn from them. It tells artists to connect to their inner creativity. I really enjoyed the point of finding your own voice. The author does not encourage the idea of stealing ideas but allows people the opportunity to create from others and evolve into their own person. Another point that resonated with me was allowing artists define what success is to them and not what society deems it to be. It also gives good logical and practical points also in order to help an artist grow.
I haven’t gone and seen art outside of campus as much as I would like to have this year, so seeing designboom article “TOP 10 museums and cultural venues of 2018” seemed like a good read. The article wasn’t what I thought it was going to be, I thought it was going to feature exhibitions inside the venues themselves or events. Instead the article features the venue itself, the building and structure that holds the events and exhibitions. And was about how these spaces do that, and mentioned what about the venue (being the structure, color, shape, vibe, ect.) makes it bring the best out of the events, what it brings attention to. Back home, the Milwaukee art museum, also offers a space that is grand by itself, the shape of it is an art piece by itself. I definitely see the value of the venues that hold exhibitions, and the attention that goes into it.
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