Ch 2: Sourcing Inspiration (Whole Set)
The artists involved in this "super-chapter" are --for internal inspiration-- Jan Harrison (for Soul and Genus Fusion), Pippilotti Rist (for Emotion and Rage Against Female Gullibility), Julian LaVerdiere (for Imagination and inspiring Inspiration itself), external inspiration artists such as Scott Grieger (Coporate Hype, Spiritual Cool, Military Heat, Global Warming, etc.), William Kentridge (Apatheid and Redemption), Chris Ofili (for the Kaleidoscope of Black Experience), and Duprat (for early moments in Art History). For both sources of inspiration, Thomas Joshua Cooper covers history, geography, sensuality, and cosmology.
I got a decent gist of the readings and main ideas for each artist and I do appreciate the written variety of artistic topics, message, and conveying themes that each of them and their style were set in role about. Scott Griger's Be Here Now!, for example, was an appealing and heavily symbolic representation that depicted hats laying in an organized fashion in a room on the floor with a red flag to the wall included. The fabrics he used included "swooshtikas," being embalzoned to two pieces of cloth being hung on opposite ends of the gallery. They resemble tankas.
More info. I got from the readings was that I realized just how art can me made not only from inspiration, but also that inspiration can also be represented as both an art-in-progress or a conceptual display to directly center towards inspiration itself, and there are multiple types of inspirations sourced: External, internal, both, and even more...
Internal inspiration is the process of being mentally stimulated to do something, especially on creative means, under the origins of being from a person's thoughts, ideas being formulated within, emotions, and other conceptual sensories by a life form itself/himself/herself.
External inspiration is the stimulation of ideas coming from various things around them and outside of others; objects, what people do, the act of something you see, what is moving, what is sounding, etc. anything sensed from the outside world and where you are at can be a form of external inspiration and can then also be accumulated into a combination of ideas to create a work of art, not just a straightforward, single source and/or thought.
The reading for the entire set was rather lengthy, but definitely cerebral and subtle, but invigorating with contemplation and new facts to appreciate upon. I definitely will have to take a closer look and read it again this weekend to sharpen up my concepts, idea, knowledge base, & go well from there.
Sourcing Info Continued: William Kentridge
William Kentridge is a prolonged, experienced artist who does conte drawings, many forms of greyscale visual media, creates prints, drawings, video sculptures, operas, plays, puppet shows that testify the tireless passion. This goes to show that his works not only convey a message clearly and centrally for most of his works, each, but also are explicitly sheer in emotional content and its projections. That being said, some of his works portray the theme of war, discrimination, the dangers in reality, coldness of the lifeless lands, suffering, thought, and much more. The pain and trauma invoked to a good number of his works are well-written in the form of drawing and motion.
It's not entirely my cup of tea but in a way, I do enjoy the visual contrasts and gradients he sets his works upon in order to convey the meaning and atmosphere of the artworks; it's much more than just the visual style and every visible detail being different, but the way the picture is seen by its artistic techniques articulately represent a particular fit theme and purpose. It's like cartoon art is great for timeless, lighthearted quality while harshly shaded realistic art represents a serious and complex story.
Either way, it makes me ponder just what kind of style I can make flexible with than just my own.
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