In the past couple weeks, we've looked at how visual artists/designers compose. We've explored their processes and inspirations. We heard lectures from Will Taylor, Bob King, and Lindsay Bierman.
STARTING POINTS
Before this course, I thought about composing in Visual Art in this sense: an artist has a vision, derived from personal inspiration and purpose, and seeks to represent it, either literally or abstractly, through technique, precision, and skill, or a deliberate lack thereof.
WHAT I LEARNED
From the lectures this week I began to think more about how the process of creating visual art has a direct effect on the piece's impact and statement. The notion of mark making and gesture are more important than I realized. Visual art can be a very physical art form.
Creating these three visual images really made me think about how technology allows us to see nuances of artwork in a whole new way. If you place the images side by side, the man doing a puzzle and love in the sky, it becomes a clear comparison. (ie love is like a puzzle, we want it be idyllic but it is in pieces). If you layer them it almost becomes a competition. (ie does love win or does the struggle win.) If you play with boundary blending, it becomes a progression. (ie love is a struggle but if you put it together it becomes idyllic)
WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT
I would like to learn more about how personal history impacts visual art. Will Taylor mentioned how his mother's death impacted his work and I would like to delve further into how that manifests itself in the creative process.
CONCLUSION
Visual art is a unique and dynamic mode of composing which sheds light on how process, technology, and personal history come into composing.
