Art is a mystery in the resent months, I cannot pin-point good art over bad, so therefore I decided I just want to create. As a result, I created this piece titled 'Bluebird in abandonment' on my graphics tablet.
Covid-19 has restricted my assess to many things, including my studio, feedback from tutors and all around productivity. I got inspired by Dr. Suess and his weird and wonderful style of drawing, I started to think that was art. If I fell for it so, and praised it enough to be art, then maybe it was.
Therefore I made a weird and wonderful landscape of my own, letting my mind stop thinking and just create. These bazare landscapes came from my mind, I let my hand wander and simply turned it into a biulding. I chose a colour, and that turned into a beautiful creature. I had never really let myself create art like this before. My art always needed to hold some type of logic, realistic aesthetics to be seen as good.
Today, I couldn't really care less...
I adore this piece because it is so unlike me, it is bright with this little bird standing in the darkness. Even though this piece took weeks to complete, i believe it was worth it as It changed the way I see art, and the way I see my abilities.
I believe my opinion changed when I encountered Picasso's Guernica for the first time. I had never really appreciated the cubism movement or known particularly anything about to do with modernism. However now I adore it, it was a protest to logic and the strategic nature of art that came before it. 'Guernica' was a painting showing the tragedy of a Spanish town being ruthlessly bombed. Although this piece is not painted as realistic, the emotions it portrays are more expressive and heavy than most of the painting I had ever encountered. Therefore, I decided to throw away my need for realism... I just wanted to express feeling, and hopefully do it well.
Aswell I know now why i want to change, it's because the world is re-setting. After the first world war modernism was born, the art world reset and new movements were created and brought to light. These movements were brilliantly avant-garde and nonsensical, they threw logic into the wind. I believe that the same thing is happening to the world now, and I can see it through myself.
As a result of COVID-19, the world is changing, out of all this pain and grief is birthing a new life of creation. I see it through the way I am regretting all of what I once thought was art. I am now adopting the mindset that the weird and the expressive are the most heart gripping types of art.
I am this small bluebird sitting on the edge of non-sense. The bright blue is the color of how I am feeling, I am not blue, I am bright blue!
I am alone in my house, sitting on the edge of my golden castle and yet I am at peace. Why?
Life screams for attention in times of chaos. I can feel it inside me burning, and it is coming out through my art. In the colors, in the shapes, in the nonsense behavior, and I love it.
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