Tips for Art 2.5

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The point of non-objective art is that there isn't one. Paint anything that comes to mind, including repeating patterns or sporadic shapes and colors. For example, you could follow in the footsteps of Mark Rothko, Kenneth Noland, etc. Like any other art piece, non-objective art speaks what the artist is thinking, but without the use of images, per se. Instead, non-objective artists use colors, shapes, blending, lines, and patterns to convey thoughts, feelings, and the like.

Lesson on Non-objective art

     

     Art is the interpretation of emotions, nature, and thoughts without the use of words. I have taken art for all four years of high school, and I enjoy it thoroughly. My mother did some painting in high school, but nothing professional. I love Monet and Mary Cassatt, and others that I am unable to remember at this moment. I love the smudge look of Monet; it is slightly mysterious. Mary Cassatt is able to capture beautiful moments perfectly, a skill I admire and wish I had. Because I am incapable of drawing people, animals, or even still-life well, I draw abstract shapes, using colors and designs.

     For my future in art in college, I would love to be able to practice sketching and painting specific features of the human body. I love human hands and faces, especially eyes and hair. Human faces seem so simple, but few people are able to capture them perfectly. While still in high school, I would love to continue with geometrical, polychromatic paintings. I realize that they are not very impressive, however, I am able to mull over the thoughts passing through my head while I paint, causing me to choose the colors and shapes that I do. Challenges that arose in art class this year was not being able to come up with ideas for my portfolio. I greatly appreciated the freedom of an AP class, but until I got inspiration I was basically stuck with the artist's version of writer's block. If I continue art in the future, it will most likely not become anything more than a recreational pastime. I really want to study social sciences and psychology in college. My love for art goes hand in hand with my curiosity for the reason why we, as humans, work they way we do. My art is very personal to me, because it translates how I was feeling at that moment in time, or of something that happened to me then.

     My current theme is not finalized yet, but I am gravitating towards purposeful use of color, layering, and shapes. All of these factors are simple, but I believe simplicity is what inspires most of my work. My favorite thing to do in AP Art Studio is paint, obviously. Patterns I have seen in my work again are shapes, and colors. The work that I have completed is important to me because it is mine, and it shows my personal capabilities, no matter how limited. I believe that the unseen things behind a piece of art is what makes it art. The mystery is the beauty, because it forces viewers to really wonder what the artist was thinking and imagining, and because we cannot know exactly what the artist was thinking (aside from an artist's statement), we will never actually know.

     My main focus at this moment is nothing other than the abstraction of emotions and thoughts of my own.