Post 6: Make up a story about a painting

Sleeping Nude - Gustave Courbet

The Good Life
Many moons ago, a woman who lived very much alone, came home from work and made a delicious meal. She got comfortable, read a chunk from a book she'd been enjoying, and passed out early in a very comfortable bed with clean white sheets.

Post 6: Inspiration

1 David Irvine

I was interested to see if other artists were painting on other art and this guy is. David Irvine buys thrift store paintings and paints well known characters into them. I think there pretty funny and I would think he sells a lot of them because of collectors and people who are obsessed with fictional characters. 

2 Wayne White

Wayne White is the only other person I can find painting on paintings. He buys them at thrift stores, and paints block letters of funny profanity's, or sayings that are inappropriate. It is very different then what I'm doing but I think the playful juxtaposition is similar. He has a documentary on Netflix about this project and how it brought him a lot of success in the art world. 

3 Emily Kell 

I enjoy Emily Kell's subject matter. Her paintings of women are really nice and I like that she has armpit hair and embraces femininity in a natural and positive way. 

Post 6: New Work

Post 5: Art and Fear Response 1

1. What work have you made that seems the most yours? why?
I think the work that is most mine is the work I've made most recently in BA, especially my hookah painting and the found painting I altered. I think my reasoning for this is because I agree with the book, every time you create you learn something new. You learn how to make things better or learn more about your style or the content you want to portray and like a spiral it eventually brings you to the center of you.
2. Who are artists that are making work that relates to you? Are there other influences? How are these other influences connected to your work?
I really like Jaclyn Alderete's work and think it does relate to me. I do think shes more talented but I envy the way she paints and would like to master that style. I think her content relates to me because I like to paint women, and cats, and intimate moments. (I know you haven't seen any of my work with cats) Other influences that inspire my work is nudism, music, friends and lovers. I know its probably not the right thing to say, but I think I get far more inspiration from those things then other artists. I do love art and paintings but I think I get the most influences from my experiences.
3. Discuss in your own words, why you think this is so.
I think the author is making a point that, where there are people there is art and creation. Humans (at least some humans) see that the world as it truly is, a miraculous, magical accident full of joy and pleasure. Whether it is still lives depicting the brightly colored fruit that literally grows on trees, or our own naked bodies, or nature, or the geometric shelters we create, we can't help but create images of it, sculptures of it, take photographs of it, because its amazing!
4. Which of these ideas resonates most with you? Why? If they all resonate, how do they differ?
I think all of these ideas resonate because I've felt this way about art at different times. Art is something you do out in the world, we spray paint cement walls with radical political nonsense or just beautiful images or people we've lost. Art is also something you do about the world, about the injustice we face in the world, the power we have in the world, the way we feel about the world. And many times art is something you do for the world, whether its a sketch on a napkin for your favorite bar tender or a mural in an inner city school or a portrait for an orphan, its a skill we want to use to make others feel good.
5. What do you notice about yourself? What are your methods? Subject matter? 
I notice things about myself, but I think I notice the same things over and over. I notice that I love people and there stories and painting them. I love nudism and I enjoy painting nudist scenes or the human body. I love music and painting and combining the vibe of music and festival culture into my work. I'm very comfortable with myself and who I am and I like to communicate that through my work and hope to inspire people to be confident with themselves.
6. What do you care about?
I care about my family first and fore most, I am really close with my 5 siblings and parents. I care about my friends and there stories and happiness. I care about music and going to experience the energy musicians put off and supporting there art. I care about the earth, animals, and empowering women.

Post 5: New Work

Post 5: Inspiration

1 Alex Grey
I really enjoy Alex Grey's painting style and how unique it is. The way he paints the metaphysical is really inspiring. I especially like his pieces about birth and love. The way he illustrates the figures internally shows how humans are interconnected.I also like how he paints the energy and auras that surround the figures.

2 Jaclyn Alderete
I love the way she handles the paint. It's very fluid and painterly. She lets the paint be paint. Its thick and the brush strokes are visible. I like that most of her work is women, because I too like to paint the female form.
 
3 Rob Rey
I like the content in a lot of Rob Reys' work, I like the relaxed, intimate, nature of his paintings and the broad brushstrokes.

Art 21: Eleanor Antin Response

Eleanor Antins video was inspiring to me because of how radical she is with her art. I feel that in my own work I like to take chances, and show my feminist side and I appreciate how shes unafraid. As a female artist or as any artist really, your just opening yourself up for criticism. Performance art is already controversial and not well-known by any means to the general public, the risk you take when undergoing a performance piece is higher than other art mediums. Will people get it? Will they hate it because they don't understand it? Will they view it as art? I think most performance art pieces require the viewer to use deeper thinking and research most of the time. Listening or watching the artist talk about there work is the fastest way to get to the meat of it all. Once you do get it, it almost hits you over the head and leaves you dumbfounded. I think Eleanor Antins work had that affect on me. I did have some back ground knowledge from Art History III, but when I watched the video I felt that I hadn't gotten the full picture from my class at all. Her exploration of different personalities through performance cuts to the heart of what it is to be a woman and what makes a woman. I think the end result shows you that gender is just superficial.

Art 21:Marina Abromavic

Marina Abromavics' work always leaves me with a weird feeling. Her performances always puts out a cold, dark, and violent tone through potential and endurance that sets me on edge. I feel like to create work in that manner you have to value your work and your concepts over your life, which as inspiring as that is, makes me feel like the artist is almost unstable. I know Van Gogh cut off his ear which is way more extreme but the way she throws herself to the wolves reminds me of that. The gaze that reoccurs in her work and also in this video, is a test to her endurance and power through her stare. You can tell she never gets lazy, or wanders but is fully present in every passing moment of the video. Its a performance that I honestly could never recreate. I have a hard time looking someone in the eyes more than a few minutes at the most. Something as un-receptive as a camera lens would be even more difficult because it would bore me, but with a person it would be incredibly awkward. It is literally impossible not to look away. The amount of focus it would require is so beyond what we do in our every day lives. Looking to the side, daydreaming, checking the clock, checking your phone, how long are we ever just present and focused? Marina Abromavic is constantly communicating to you through her gaze every second. Its the weirdest test of emotional endurance ever but in a way it relates to the staring contests we all had as children, except obviously Marina Abromavic blinks.

Post 4: Inspiration

These are some of the pictures I took off of facebook to work from. I tried to choose photos from around the time we were hanging out. Some were harder than others because I blocked them on all social media but luckily my roomate helped some. 

Post 4: New Work

Post 3: New Work

Post 3: Research/Inspiration

1 This was a really interesting local band I stumbled upon in Jacksonville around the Beach Bars. There was an incredibly drunk man dropping it low which was really amazing to watch.

2 My little sister visited me from FSU and we drove around and listened to Jewel, she always inspires me and has even started painting recently which is really adorable. 

3 I had a really wild experience at Mavericks when this older gentlemen in the video invited me and my two friends into VIP/Upstairs. I haven't ever had bottle service or access to a stripper pole before and it was exciting and new. 

Post 2: New Work

Post 2: Research/Inspiration

1

Karl Densons' Tiny Universe was an inspiring show I went to at Free Bird Live.

2
Hamburger Mary's Drag Show was a really exciting and inspiring experience.

3

This cat I met at St Francis House named Sylvester was really cool. It got me thinking how even cats without homes, find food and shelter at St Francis and what the world would be like if everyone took in homeless people and travelers the way so many of us do with animals.

Post 1: New Work