RISD - Painting
http://www.risd.edu/graduate/painting/Default.aspx
SVA - Illustration as Visual Essay
http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/grad/index.jsp?sid0=2&sid1=32
Tyler School of Art, Temple University - Painting
http://www.temple.edu/tyler/painting/index.html
Pratt - Fine Arts
http://www.pratt.edu/academics/art_design/art_grad/fine_arts_grad/
MICA - Illustration
http://www.mica.edu/Programs_of_Study/MFA_Degree_Programs/Illustration_%28MFA_2011%29.html
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I am honestly not sure If I am going to attend graduate school, I most certainly have no plans to in the near future, accumulated too much debt with just undergrad. I found it frusterating how hard it was to come by illustration programs. If I were to go through the lengths of attending a graduate school, it damn well better be a school with the program of greatest interest to me, Illustration. Illustration is something I've always had my eye on, but have been unable to receive any formal education in the area because nowhere I've been has offered any such courses.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Video: "Untitled Fall '95" by Alex Bag - response
oh. my. god. I cannot stand the manner in which she talks..she sounds so air-headed and pretentious..typical 'teen angst' persona; like nails on chalkboard. I was a little lost with the second scene, where she repeats 'call me' over and over--it was kind of irritating, and none of her following performances seemed to get any better with the film, nor were they making any sense to me. Many of the clips are excessively repetitious. Her performances seemed to me more like the random ramblings of a bored child's imagination. The entirety of this film consists of bizarre performance clips framed by several clips of bag talking to the viewer of her experiences/feelings on being an art student at SVA.
I am not exactly clear on the purpose of this film; I think of it as a kind of critique on the typical 'art student'. At least I certainly hope that is the case and this girl is not taking herself seriously. I was kind of surprised, and perhaps a little upset, when seeing some of myself in the character she portrayed in her monologues to the audience as a student. Some of the things she rants about in regards to the school and her development as an artist are things I know I've thought about at some point in one sense or another. Hearing her complaints through this video provides a different kind of perspective, kind of a characture of what I myself probably am like in my moments of frustration. I don't like how it makes me a little stupid for thinking similarly, but at the same time I think these are concerns and feelings everyone encounters..the remarkably unremarkable journey a student goes through to become an artist.
I am not exactly clear on the purpose of this film; I think of it as a kind of critique on the typical 'art student'. At least I certainly hope that is the case and this girl is not taking herself seriously. I was kind of surprised, and perhaps a little upset, when seeing some of myself in the character she portrayed in her monologues to the audience as a student. Some of the things she rants about in regards to the school and her development as an artist are things I know I've thought about at some point in one sense or another. Hearing her complaints through this video provides a different kind of perspective, kind of a characture of what I myself probably am like in my moments of frustration. I don't like how it makes me a little stupid for thinking similarly, but at the same time I think these are concerns and feelings everyone encounters..the remarkably unremarkable journey a student goes through to become an artist.
Seven Days in the Art World - Ch6: The Studio Visit
•“It is frowned upon to touch the painting.”
•“Changing the context of an object is, in and of itself, art. It sounds like a put-down, but it’s not.”
•“What makes Takashi’s art great—and also potentially scary—is his honest and completely canny relationship to commercial culture
industries”
•"Everywhere I looked, there was Murakami, not only did we have two magnetic works in the 'Painting from Rauschenberg to Murakami'
exhibition at the Museo Correr, but you could see the Murakami handbags through the window of the Louis Vuitton store, and African
immigrants were selling copies on the street. Collectors were carrying real ones; tourists carried fake. Murakami had taken over."
•“Unlike Warhol’s other artistic heirs, who pull the popular into the realm of art, Murakami flips it and reenters popular culture”
•"To experience Takashi, you have to experience the commercial elements of his work."
•"I change my direction or continue in the same direction by seeing people's reaction. My concentration is how to survive long-term and
how to join with the contemporary feeling... I work by trial and error to be popular."
•"the most important thing for creative people is the sense that they are learning. It's like a video game. They have frustration with my
high expectations, so when they get 'yes' for their work, they feel like they've won a level."
•“A Studio is supposed to be a site of intense contemplation.”
•“A studio isn’t just a place where artists make art, but a platform for negotiation and a stage for performances.”
Seven Days in the Art World - Ch2: The Crit
•"MFA stands for yet another Mother-Fucking Artist" [I just had to use it, so rare this kind of phrase is found in my assigned readings for school haha]
•"It is no halfhearted thing. You are materializing- taking something from the inside and putting it out into the world so you can be relieved of it." [in reference to what an artist is]
•“art comes out of failure”
•"I don't care about the artists intentions. I care if the work looks like it might have some consequences."
•“Artists don’t fully understand what they’ve made, so other people’s readings can help them ‘see at the conscious level’ what they’ve done”..“it’s about being open to the possibility of what you could know”
•"Never go to the wall text. Never ask the artist. Learn to read the work."
•“Criticality is a strategy for the production of knowledge. Our view is that art should interrogate the social and cultural ideas of its time. Other places might want a work to produce pleasure or feelings.”
•“Even if crits are performances, the students seem not to be acting but searching for authentic self expression.”
•“Often the people who are making sense are the ones for whom it hasn’t started working yet.”
•"I believe in education for its own sake, because it is deeply humanizing. It is being a fulfilled human being"
•"It is no halfhearted thing. You are materializing- taking something from the inside and putting it out into the world so you can be relieved of it." [in reference to what an artist is]
•“art comes out of failure”
•"I don't care about the artists intentions. I care if the work looks like it might have some consequences."
•“Artists don’t fully understand what they’ve made, so other people’s readings can help them ‘see at the conscious level’ what they’ve done”..“it’s about being open to the possibility of what you could know”
•"Never go to the wall text. Never ask the artist. Learn to read the work."
•“Criticality is a strategy for the production of knowledge. Our view is that art should interrogate the social and cultural ideas of its time. Other places might want a work to produce pleasure or feelings.”
•“Even if crits are performances, the students seem not to be acting but searching for authentic self expression.”
•“Often the people who are making sense are the ones for whom it hasn’t started working yet.”
•"I believe in education for its own sake, because it is deeply humanizing. It is being a fulfilled human being"
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