Art Theory

Drew_TNBD

Artist Statement

My work explores the relationship between consumerist fetishism and life as performance.

With influences as diverse as Derrida and L Ron Hubbard, new insights are created from both mundane and transcendant discourse.

Ever since I was a student I have been fascinated by the ephemeral nature of the universe. What starts out as triumph soon becomes corrupted into a hegemony of greed, leaving only a sense of failing and the dawn of a new understanding.

As intermittent phenomena become frozen through studious and academic practice, the viewer is left with an insight into the limits of our condition.

Sporky

Well, at least it didn't involve the phrase "inspired by nature".

Cirrus

bingefeller

Sounds like pretentious wank.

ESBlonde

bingefeller said:

Sounds like pretentious wank.

Yea but a wank none the less, so bonus.

Steve922

I find particular value in such work if the insights are created from both mundane and transcendant discourse simultaneously. I find so often they arrive from just one such esoteric source at a time.

axisus

Artists are basically whacko nut jobs, yet despite this, they have an innate ability to make people proffer money for their output in the face of no discernible presence of quality.

monquixote

I was once at a party with a chap who said when asked what he did for a living that he "divided his time equally between visual poetry and movement theatre" 

There was a bit of a pause and then someone said "So... you're a dancer?"

He got in a tremendous huff.

Budgie

You office boys with your office ways, you crack me up

viz

Double post coming up .......

viz

Art is the realisation of human emotion through creative or imaginative skill.

jonnyburgo

I like it when musicians and artist use the term "organic process" makes me want to check em out.

proggy

I don't get modern art, to me it's just a pile of crap.

TheBlueWolf

Either the singist has pleasant cleavages or GTFO!

Legionreturns

I teach gcse art... A few months back, I went to an art teacher CPD night at the Baltic cafe where we had some hippy playing music at us and telling us to "draw what we hear". A new sheet of paper for every "song". 

Then, at the end of the evening she told us to take bits from each piece and make one bit of art that encapsulated the whole evening. Most of us played along but thought it was a bit pretentious, but this one knob end threw the contents of the salt packets and a couple of flapjacks on various tables around the room, and then explained that it was an "installation" of site into sound and the salt represented... Blah blah blah. I actually wanted to punch the tosser and then shove the salt down his japs eye. What a prick! 

Grunfeld

Art -- yep, that's okay.  Sometimes more than okay.
But art-speak?  It's as sterile as the "business-speak" on another thread.
Cutting down the verb count and using a load of slightly obscure nouns doesn't confer any extra insight to banal ideas.
Say it simply.

RocknRollDave

Art is the one with the bigger slaphead but more actual hair.

bingefeller

jonnyburgo said:

I like it when musicians and artist use the term "organic process" makes me want to check em out.

The term "organic process" reminds me of something Maynard Keenan would say about the writing process for Tool's "music".  

Nomad

Nomad Zamani is an artist who mainly works with painting. With a subtle minimalistic approach, Zamani creates work through labour-intensive processes which can be seen explicitly as a personal exorcism ritual. They are inspired by a nineteenth-century tradition of works, in which an ideal of ‘Fulfilled Absence’ was seen as the pinnacle.

His practice provides a useful set of allegorical tools for manoeuvring with a pseudo-minimalist approach in the world of painting: these meticulously planned works resound and resonate with images culled from the fantastical realm of imagination. By exploring the concept of landscape in a nostalgic way, he creates work in which a fascination with the clarity of content and an uncompromising attitude towards conceptual and minimal art can be found. The work is aloof and systematic and a cool and neutral imagery is used.

His works establish a link between the landscape’s reality and that imagined by its conceiver. These works focus on concrete questions that determine our existence. By referencing romanticism, grand-guignolesque black humour and symbolism, he investigates the dynamics of landscape, including the manipulation of its effects and the limits of spectacle based on our assumptions of what landscape means to us. Rather than presenting a factual reality, an illusion is fabricated to conjure the realms of our imagination.

His works are often classified as part of the new romantic movement because of the desire for the local in the unfolding globalized world. However, this reference is not intentional, as this kind of art is part of the collective memory.

For example...

Of course.

Budgie

axisus said:

Artists are basically whacko nut jobs, yet despite this, they have an innate ability to make people proffer money for their output in the face of no discernible presence of quality.

A bit like graphic designers. They know they can't be truly creative so resort to fucking about moving Comic Sans around crisp packets until it represents a crisp packet.

equalsql

I don't know what @Drew_TNBD  and @Nomad  are smoking, but can I have some of it please.