1. I get a kick out of the fact that Murakami doesn't use Illustrator, or rather he doesn't know how to. It's a sign of a true traditional artist who likes to stick to what he knows. Or maybe he just finds it troublesome to explore other mediums; whatever floats your boat Murakami, your work already looks like vector work as is.
2. I appreciate Murakami's devotion to his use of color (flat color). It lends his work a very sharp crisp and bright look, something that me a designer finds very attractive.
3."I threw out my general life so I can make concentration for my job."Holy crap is this guy ever so focused. Six years in college and I can't think of a single moment where I wasn't finding enjoyment in my general life. I can understand where he's going with this, but it feels a little too extreme for me. You gotta have the fun and everyday relaxation to balance out the work.
4. Respect. I greatly respect his activeness and interaction with all of his studios.
5. Merchandise, merchandise, merchandise. I remember this very much about Murakami, and it seems to be a very big thing amongst the Japanese. I don't knock it, in fact I think it's nice that he can find use in his work outside of the gallery halls.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
SDitAW: Chapter 3 - The Fair
1. I understand that the art world is a very competitive field and that making a living out of it is important; but reading into this chapter, I felt that somewhere along the way, art had sort of lost its original purpose of pleasing an audience, rather than bringing in a profit or any kind of fame.
2. Overall there was too much talk about the economy in art. It kinda bored me.
3. “An artist doesn’t become an artist in a day, so a collector shouldn’t become a collector in a day. It’s a lifetime process.” This is so true that it's not even funny. I see myself as both an artist and a collector, and in both cases I believe that I'll be spending the rest of my life in perfecting my craft and collection.
4. "Occasionally meeting an artist destroys the art. You almost don't trust it. You think what you're seeing in the work is an accident."
5. "In the art world, gossip is never idle. It is a vital form of market intelligence." Yeaaaaaah, I gotta give it to this one. Too many things ring true with this line. The only way to keep up with the art world is to hear what's going on and what's the latest big thing. Unfortunately for me, that's something that I need to work on.
2. Overall there was too much talk about the economy in art. It kinda bored me.
3. “An artist doesn’t become an artist in a day, so a collector shouldn’t become a collector in a day. It’s a lifetime process.” This is so true that it's not even funny. I see myself as both an artist and a collector, and in both cases I believe that I'll be spending the rest of my life in perfecting my craft and collection.
4. "Occasionally meeting an artist destroys the art. You almost don't trust it. You think what you're seeing in the work is an accident."
5. "In the art world, gossip is never idle. It is a vital form of market intelligence." Yeaaaaaah, I gotta give it to this one. Too many things ring true with this line. The only way to keep up with the art world is to hear what's going on and what's the latest big thing. Unfortunately for me, that's something that I need to work on.
SDitAW: Chapter 2 - The Crit
- "MFA stands for yet another Mother-Fucking Artist."
- "The prevailing belief is that any artist whose work fails to display some conceptual rigor is little more than a pretender, illustrator, or designer."
- "In more senses than one, it costs a lot to be an artist."
- "Creative is definitely a dirty word.... You Would not want to say it in Post Studio. People would gag!it's almost as embarrassing as beautiful or sublime or masterpiece."
- "Group critiques offer a unique-some say "utopian"-situation in which everyone focuses on the student's work with a mandate to understand it as deeply as possible."
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