If you’re a visual artist, you are always essentially communicating with yourself. You’re expressing something about yourself to yourself as much as to an audience. In effect, your artwork is one giant self-portrait, telling the world something about who you are and what matters to you.
Telling the same story again and again — or at least telling it differently — is a useful exercise that can help you improve your art. It doesn’t matter what the story is. A blog is not a place for originality; it’s okay to tell the same story repeatedly.
Telling the same story again and again will also help you develop your skills at conveying complex ideas in simple ways. It’s far easier to say something complicated in a way that is clear and compelling than it is to say things simply while still being truthful and interesting; but if you can do both, then you know you have mastered subtlety as well as clarity, concision as well as depth. If there was ever a skill worth developing, this is it.
The best blogs (of any kind) are those that combine simplicity of expression with depth of insight. The writer doesn’t sacrifice depth for clarity or vice versa; he
A lot of blogs are about writing, but this is a blog about art. That’s because as an artist I want to get better at my art. The way you get better at your art is by practicing and observing other artists, and then taking what you learn and doing something new.
What do I mean by “art”? I mean original stuff you make up yourself. So this site may not be for you if you don’t make art, or if you only make art that looks like something someone else has already made. It’s also probably not for you if making art isn’t important to you; it’s not like I’m going to tell you how to be a better shopper or a better cook or a better driver. If making art isn’t important to you, then either find some other site or go back to whatever it was that was important to you before you found this one.
There are lots of sites about writing and publishing, so if that’s what interests you then go visit some of them. This site is mostly about art itself: working on it, looking at it, talking about it. It’s a kind of safe space where we can critically examine every aspect of the arts without worrying about offending someone who does or does not fit into
It may seem confusing at first, but the main concept behind this project is, if you have something you want to say, say it.
Art Base is a blog that helps people spread their art and ideas to a large audience. This shouldn’t be surprising; although we are in a digital world, there is still no replacement for getting your name out there.
With Art Base, you can create a profile page on our site and post as much content as you want. So what are you waiting for? Get started today!
In the past several years, a number of bloggers have emerged about art, some of them artists themselves. Their blogs are an important part of my education as an artist and as a curator of art. As a former critic, I would recommend these blogs to critics as well.
The first is Abstract Expressionism: The Largest Art Movement of the 20th Century , which chronicles the development of abstract expressionism from its beginnings among a group of painters in New York City in the 1930s to its spread around the world. This blog was started by the late abstract expressionist painter Philip Guston. It is still being curated by his wife, artist Riva Castleman.
The second is Lustmord: Zine of Death Culture , which covers all forms of death culture: music, film, literature, art, fashion, and even some gaming. The author/curator is David E. Schultz, who teaches at Humboldt State University in California and who has published on photography and music history.
The third is Chris Marker’s Filmography , which presents Marker’s work chronologically with links to reviews and analyses by other critics (and some by Marker himself), biographical information on Marker himself, and assorted photos and media
The real goal of art is to unsettle the audience. That’s why we like it. We look at a painting and ask, “What does it mean?” And then we feel clever when we discover that the artist had something in mind. But the truth is that most artists don’t have anything in mind, and even when they do, we still shouldn’t be able to figure it out.
The point of art is to make people uncomfortable; to cause them to ask questions. If you can interpret a piece of art, it wasn’t good enough.
Your reaction to art should be basically the same as your reaction to your dreams, or daydreams: “I could make up something much better than that.”
You’re not supposed to be able to interpret an artist’s work; you’re supposed to be left with questions so vague that you don’t even realize they are questions; things you don’t know how to articulate.
Art is a luxury, and like all luxuries it’s worth exactly as much as you can afford to pay for it.
So the question isn’t “Is this art?”, it’s “Is this worth $25 to you?”
Art is a unique part of human culture that adds to civilization and the greater good. It can be used in a very personal way to get out one’s own emotions and feelings. Some may not understand it, but that is what art is about; it’s about expressing how one feels, how they see life, and how they want others to feel too. It can also be used to inspire others to create art that can make people happy, help them through hard times, and help them understand others different from themselves. Art is a great thing to have in the world because of all the positive effects it has on people, such as helping people through hard times or inspiring them to create art of their own.
Art is all around us, in everything we do whether we are aware of it or not. So if you see something you feel inspired by or like, take time out of your busy day and appreciate it. Take some time out of your day when you are feeling down and look at something beautiful, such as a painting or sculpture and let it lift you up again. Appreciate art in whatever form you see it in, because like I said before, art is all around us in our lives even if we don’t realize it!
