Artist that inspired project #2
Tom Phillips
Although skilled in many forms of art, his collages made of books/paper and watercolors or ink. He creates poetry even though he is not a poet. For approaching my current works I liked Phillips' approach for editing an original document to say something new or express something that was already present to begin with that went unnoticed before. For A Humument, Tom was inspired by the fact that he never read the book correctly from the time he first laid eyes upon it. Similar to the way most people never fully read a receipt. He began to play with turning pages over and creating a new text from what was previously present. He is an important artist to study for his creative works are mostly found from things that he has all around him. He doesn't have to create something from scratch, but from inspiration of just playing with objects that interest him in new ways.
Although skilled in many forms of art, his collages made of books/paper and watercolors or ink. He creates poetry even though he is not a poet. For approaching my current works I liked Phillips' approach for editing an original document to say something new or express something that was already present to begin with that went unnoticed before. For A Humument, Tom was inspired by the fact that he never read the book correctly from the time he first laid eyes upon it. Similar to the way most people never fully read a receipt. He began to play with turning pages over and creating a new text from what was previously present. He is an important artist to study for his creative works are mostly found from things that he has all around him. He doesn't have to create something from scratch, but from inspiration of just playing with objects that interest him in new ways.
Artist that inspired project #2
Vanessa Beecroft
Vanessa Beecroft was inspired not only by her own struggles but also the way society views the very things that bother her. A lot of her pieces focus on provoking the viewer into taking notice of the things that are wrong in society, the imperfections that we idolize are unreal. She inspired me to take notice of receipts and not only what they say about how much society spends to wear a label, and put a label on themselves, but also what we are willing to spend to wear it. We have stereotypes for everything and a lot of Beecroft's work looks to push stereotypes directly at us. It is important to study her work to take notice that we are capable of saying important things about societal issues in different formats, whether it is serious like her work, or in a comical light as mine is set in.
Vanessa Beecroft was inspired not only by her own struggles but also the way society views the very things that bother her. A lot of her pieces focus on provoking the viewer into taking notice of the things that are wrong in society, the imperfections that we idolize are unreal. She inspired me to take notice of receipts and not only what they say about how much society spends to wear a label, and put a label on themselves, but also what we are willing to spend to wear it. We have stereotypes for everything and a lot of Beecroft's work looks to push stereotypes directly at us. It is important to study her work to take notice that we are capable of saying important things about societal issues in different formats, whether it is serious like her work, or in a comical light as mine is set in.