Studying Art (17) – Why do you paint?

I’ve been challenged with this innocent question recently, and though I came up with an immediate answer at that moment ‘of truth’, I still keep pondering over it now, as if looking for a deeper, fuller view…

Why do you paint? Why do I paint?
My photographs say most of what I want to convey, my writing [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Studying Art – Diary (3)

It’s amazing and disconcerting in a way how many influences one may be powered by.
At the moment (the end of November 2007) I find myself being inspired by:

Blue … this goes without saying (and I think I owe blue a separate post) – by Blue I mean: a colour, a limitless variations/tones/shades of [...]

Studying Art – Diary (2)

For the first time in my life I posed for another person. And although it were pretty simple poses, some quick, some longer, some studies of hands, some portraits I found this experience quite revealing and formative.
I suppose the whole trick rests on the inversion of roles – quite suddenly from a subject you are [...]

Diary – Part 1

 
Half – term of the first term in the second year of my study has just approached. I found myself enjoying my time in the college much more than I could initially imagine, but this wouldn’t be possible without great people I met.
The main good points of study art in an institution (especially when you’re [...]