Plato asked the question ” What is Art” over 2000 years ago. After a half century of consideration, I do not have a definitive answer for you.
NOT an answer to the question What is Art? “In the eye of the beholder.” WHAT? If Everything is Art… Then it follows… NOTHING is Art!!! I have come to one once conclusion: Art is transformational.
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When people tell me , “I’m not creative” it makes me SO, SO sad, angry and frustrated.
The United States does not appear in the top 25 in reading, math and science on the world stage. The only area we have continued to lead is INNOVATION. Apple’s new position as the most valuable company in history aside, we are slipping in that area, as well.
You live in a culture where “different” and “interesting” are bad words. We will all be in serious, serious trouble if creativity, innovation and risktaking does not become every teacher’s goal.
ARTISTS/INNOVATORS ARE NOT BORN. THEY ARE MADE THROUGH PRACTICE OF SKILL SETS… JUST LIKE ANY OTHER DISCIPLINE. YOU CAN NOT IMAGINE HOW IGNORANT YOU SOUND WHEN YOU SAY: “ I’M JUST NOT CREATIVE”. YOU CAN NOT SAY THAT ANY MORE THAN YOU CAN SAY : “I JUST DON’T DO MATH” OR “I HAVE NO INTEREST IN HISTORY”. PLEASE FOLLOW ME FOR TIPS ON HOW TO CHANGE THE “DRAW A PONY” PERCEPTION OF CREATIVITY WHICH WAS IMPOSED ON YOU IN YOUR GRADE SCHOOL EXPERIENCE (PROBABLY) .
87% OF THE CURRENT STUDENT LEARNING COMES IN VISUALLY! DID YOU GET THAT? 87%
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I make art from historical, and art made, power objects for the purpose of provoking social change. I aspire to be a pro-social voice for change. I use a hybrid style which incorporates postmodern and conceptual style characteristics which employs a methodology I call “recordari”, from the Latin “to remember, call to mind (re-restore and cor, genitive, cordis heart, understood by the ancients as the seat of judgment and memory” (Barnhart, 1988) (p. 896). I would like to identify “Onion” and artworks like it, as representing our “lived experience” (VanManen, 1990) in visual form. I suggest we use our personal power objects to take the viewer on a journey, which explores and records the artist’s lived experience.