Imagine a painting of your life, what colors would be there? How would you show the different times in your life? Would you shade the areas where you had a hard time or use lines to show that? Being a artist that never truly finishes their work would be hard. When you are young, your enthused about painting. As you start to get older, all you want to do is visit with friends, so you miss that part of your life. Then you get back on track and work like crazy to make up wasted time. But you think to yourself “Will I ever finish my masterpiece or will it end when I do?” You start out with a blank canvas, nothing on it, but ready to absorb new information. You soak up the paint like a sponge, like a baby soaking in all the information it can. The paint on the brush is your knowledge, and you are waiting for that first piece of information that you can get. The first line would mark that you can walk, as the line grows you begin to talk. As your painting grows, so does your knowledge. Learning more and more everyday. At this point you don't know what is wrong and what is right, you have no clue what you want to paint. As your sitting there you are thinking, then you come up with an idea. You think of trees and grass, of water and sky. You start to see pictures and colors form into a beautiful picture. But what to do next? Should you continue to create a master piece or should you let another person show you? You decide to watch to see what others would do in your position, and you learn from that to start on your own master piece. You begin to learn that a little help does not hurt. Talking with other people and sharing ideas. You let other people criticize your work. You learn different shapes and sizes, colors and shades. Whi... ... middle of paper ... ... in her life. Her painting will be her own and it will show the world what and who she has become. She is you but different, and she will succeed in her own way as you did, with a little push here and there. She will have her own legacy some day to show the world. Grand all the same in her own way. Life is never ending, it goes on even after we are gone. You have multiple stages, different times, the world just evolves. It always changes as do our minds. Painting from a young age to an adult you would be able to see how your style has changed over the years. You could go any where from stick figures to dead on portraits. No one ever stays the same through out their life, and your taste in things change too. Like your favorite color may be pink when you were little, then by the time your sixteen it may be blue. Your life is your legacy so live it up to the fullest.
Rathnasambhava, the Transcendent Buddha of the South and Madonna Enthroned are very similar images that were produced by very different cultures. Both images were produced during the 13th Century. The image of Rathnasambhava, the Transcendent Buddha of the South was produced in Tibet during an interesting period of the country’s religious history. The branch of Tibetan Buddhism is led by a religious and sometimes political leader called the Dalai Lama. It was during the 13th Century during the reign of Kublai Khan, around the time of the production of this painting, that Tibet experienced the first incarnation of the Dalai Lama. One has to wonder if this painting is somehow related to that occurrence. According to one source, the reincarnation system for the Living Buddhas is the main point distinguishing Tibetan Buddhism from other forms of Buddhism.
...long career provides a lighthouse of hope to all artists who labor in the dark, uncertain of their efforts but determined to express their voice." (Schneider, 129).
Many artists find themselves struggling to find their identity in the beginning and then when you have discovered yourself it can be hard to come up with ideas to fit the mold as what the public sees them as. This then leads to what people call the struggling artist’s life due to the fact that without making a product there is no income to flow into the household. These three authors: James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Dickens, and Johanna Spyri all went through the tough times of finding an identity or how to take personal experiences and then turn them into a story that readers would enjoy. Going
The first time I began to draw, I drew stick figures and malformed animals and people. As I continued to grow and experience new things, I also improved in my art. From fifth grade to my senior year in high school, I realized a major difference in the way I drew, and also in what it meant to me. For me, drawing represented the growth I went through in life. Through the tough times, happy memories, and crushing defeats, these all accumulated and created my personality and
From the creation of art to its modern understanding, artists have strived to perform and perfect a photo realistic painting with the use of complex lines, blend of colors, and captivating subjects. This is not the case anymore due to the invention of the camera in 1827, since it will always be the ultimate form of realism. Due to this, artists had the opportunities to branch away from the classical formation of realism, and venture into new forms such as what is known today as modern art. In the examination of two well known artists, Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock, we can see that the artist doesn’t only intend for the painting to be just a painting, but more of a form of telling a scene through challenging thoughts, and expressing of the artists emotion in their creation.
If you’re not having fun making your work, no one will have fun looking at it. Life starts at the end of your comfort zone. Paint over a painting when you’re done with it. Educate yourself, read every book about every artist that inspires you. Listen to others, but take time and thought to verify their critique before accepting their advice. Pretend like your 5 years old and make art. Pretend like your 100 years old and make art. As soon as your process becomes a chore, find a way to change that into something you enjoy.
When consistently setting oneself up for failure, one tends to be controlled by ideas of themselves becoming the same failure. For example, painting is a self-paced work that entails one’s time and effort to create a masterpiece. Like any other way to reach a goal, time must be spent working towards it until one is accurately above it. When adding layers of colors onto a canvas, the artist is required to wait till the paint dries to ensure that the colors do not mix with one another. If the artist uses the next color before it is dried, what was attempted becomes destroyed.
Each drawing. Each painting. Each sculpture. It can give you a glimpse of what is going on in the artist’s head. Take the painting “El Autobus” by Frida Kahlo as an example. It has been said that the painting is in reference of the accident Frida Kahlo had where she got impaled by a metal handrail. The painting is of a bench with people sitting on it just before boarding the bus. This kind of artwork, where the artist puts a little bit of him/her self in it is something I strive for. I want to make art that reflects me, or that means something to me. I don’t want to make something just because, I want it to be where the viewer could possibly see the hard work, the passion, the emotion behind it. Things that most times get
... dedication put into each little carving and sculpture; personally (my artist self) gives up if a project is taking too long because then I over analyze the piece and over work it, or I simply just get bored.
Art is a medium that has no rules or requirements. Artists use huge arrays of strategies to convey deep messages and make the viewer ask new and unanswered questions. One of those strategies being “incompleteness”. As an artist myself I feel that every single piece of art has a degree of incompleteness. I could practice a piece of music for my entire life and as the performer I will always find something that I want to improve. Modern Contemporary art is even more so considered incomplete because of the technology we have today that allows us to change, edit, and reorganize our art. Instead of the piece of art being defined by its’ completeness the incompleteness of it becomes part of the art. My personal favorite piece of incomplete art is
Choosing to use your time and effort in the arts is a decision that many people would decide to make. This is something that is fun and helpful. Individuals who hold this perspective wish to present their creations or speak what they feel is a waste of money. After all, it takes a lot of patience and countless hours you won’t get back. On the contrary, the individuals who design paintings make masterpieces.
Every artist must hurdle an obstacle in order to achieve his or her goal. From greats like Michelangelo, who labored through several failed projects before gifting society with world-renowned masterpieces like the Sistine Chapel, to Mozart who endured the pains of poverty in his pursuit of musical artistry, many artists have battled obstacles to produce their work. These obstacles may take place in their lives, or impede their progress on a much more technical level such as fighting gravity to paint a ceiling. Even in modern society artists are still contending with challenges to reach the final goal of their work.
As a student and aspiring artist, I am still discovering who I am and creating who I want to be. Although I am uncertain about my career, I am certain about my passion for art history and the strong likelihood of a future surrounding the arts. My passion and involvement in the arts has developed into a strong desire to learn and grow as a student and artist. I believe this internship will support my goals. I believe this internship will help me take that extra step towards my goals and will offer me an interactive, hands-on experience of the workplace and future I am seeking.
The arts have influenced my life in amazing ways. Throughout my life, art has been the place I run to and my escape from the world. As I’ve grown older, art has become so much more than that. Every piece of art I create is a journey into my soul. It’s a priceless way to deal with my emotions and my struggles. I create art not only because I enjoy it and because I want to, but because I have to. Somewhere deep inside there is a driving force, urging me to put my heart down on paper. I become emotionally attached to each of my pieces because they are like dashes on the wall marking my growth. Each one is the solution to a problem I have dealt with and overcome.
The time to breathe before advancing further in my future projects, the difficult moments instead of discouraging me, these moments give me motivation and the necessary energy to move forward. I am optimist but realistic. My parents taught me that we live in a world that is constantly changing and to succeed we need a smart plan and the ability to adapt and adjust to the changing world environment but more importantly one need to prepare one’s self to succeed. We need discipline and above all an unshakable will to resist difficulties when they happen. “An ongoing work of art” would probably be one of the best ways to describe my life. From very early on in life, I have learn that I can be the artist of my own life through guidance and hard work, I learned that we are the architecture of our life, the artist of our own destiny through work, commitment and determination. Every route taken or not taken will somehow impact our existence and leave a trail like a shooting star in the night sky, the beauty of the trail depends entirely on the nature of our actions in life. This is the first time in my existence I have had the opportunity to write the story of my life in detail. This exercise