Studying Art (18) – Getting over it…

What a year it was… I mean – not easy one… In fact – bl…y difficult…
Studying art is a bit like diving in Le Grand Bleu… further down, the less light and more dense matter… Waters around get less inviting, more frightening and yet – strangely captivating, with that pulsating, magnetic force, which commands you [...]

Studying Art – Diary (12)

There is never enough of them – do you know this feeling? Books. Books. Books. You would spent your life in the libraries and your savings on purchasing yet another title with a delight, that an art collector enriches his ’stable’ with yet another beautiful, desirable piece of an artwork. It usually starts very early [...]

Studying Art (11) – Studio Work or Chaos…

Please note:
Photos presented feature the below-mentioned efforts in my studio from September-December 2008. For my statement, concept, more images/descriptions – please visit “My Work” and my Flickr page.
It had started during the summer months – a sort of a rather noxious fermentation darkening slowly over time. On coming back to the college in September it [...]

Studying Art (10)- The Crisis

Crisis (Oxford Dictionary 2008):
a time of intense difficulty, trouble, or danger : the current economic crisis | a family in crisis
• a time when a difficult or important decision must be made : [as adj. ] a crisis point of history.
• the turning point of a disease when an important change takes place, indicating either [...]

Art Diary (9) – The Sublime

What these images have in common? Is there any sensible link between C.D. Friedrich’s “Wanderer”, the Cosmos, Barrack Obama’s image and Andreas Gursky’s photo (the last image) of the stock exchange? What would be that feeling, that intangible sensation of ours, or maybe even their own – those propositions’ intrinsic quality, which keeps us utterly [...]

Diary (8): ‘Strawberry Fields’… Forever?

Fascinating, how the same (or very similar) ideas circulate in the air and through time/space passage ‘tapping on’ heads of different individuals.
Can’t tell exactly how my last concept has originated, it seemed just to sprout like a spring wild flower – out of nothing. Out of sudden I became quite preoccupied with strawberries: their smell, [...]

Studying Art – Diary (7)

First year of a truly personal work (and 2nd of BA Fine Art degree) has just finished – I mean, in an ‘official’ meaning of the word, since anyone lucky enough and doomed enough, who is even mildly familiar with art studying, accepts as a matter of fact the perpetual, omnipresent nature of it. [...]

Some benefits of keeping a ‘Studio Journal’…

First and foremost – to keep work alive with thinking/reflection
To preserve unique moments of a discovery

To preserve equally unique moments of a struggle/crisis
To learn from one’s own story

To exercise an insight and self-recognition
To learn self-discipline and persistence
To develop skill in a creative/accurate writing

By “Studio Journal” I mean any form of a written record of [...]

Studying art – Diary (6)

Second term of the second year is no more… it’s ceased to be, passed away and gave up its ghost. We – majority of students – are emerging from it like from a tough, inequitable battle, some with bruises and scratches only, some with deep wounds, nobody unaffected. The truth is that nothing could [...]

Studying Art – Diary 5

Last week has been critical in many terms. I’ve been struggling with a terrible flu, mostly trying to ignore it in my fashion and carrying on as usual… And I’ve decided to go to Paris in April with a group of students and tutors (I just can’t wait!)… Finally, battling on a field of [...]