This was an assignment for a sculpture class - "write 20 art statements." It was a lot harder than i anticipated and essentially became a list of all the important things I've learned about art at this school, some of which I'm still (and might always be) in the process of learning.
- art assigns objecthood to moment and material weight to sensation
- it's important to do art beautifully, not for the sake of beauty itself but as a tool that makes ideas both workable and interesting
- constructive discontent is critical to developing an consciousness of creative methodology
- all deliberate change first comes from denying the logic that most gives you comfort
- art is a completely socially determinable product
- art objects take on more meaning than the sum of their parts
- the experience of the maker doesn't dictate or determine the experience of the viewer
- the experience of the viewer doesn't dictate or determine the experience of the maker
- it's okay for art to be a record of a process instead of a means to an end
- intentionality is critical, even if it takes the form of intentional unintentionally
- be responsive to the moments in which one thing becomes about something else
- art is essentially, in purpose, to recreate moments in time that cannot in any other manner be communicated
- IT IS IMPORTANT FOR YOU TO HAVE A REASON FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO*
- treat the unsystematic systematically, and the systematic unsystematically
- art is a prior mental or physical event for which the work now serves as a testimony that it occurred
- it is sometimes accomplishing emotional affect solely by means of the isolated portrayal of a super-personal emotional state, idea or concept
- transgression of structure always results in the construction of new structures
- always be critical and aware of what's implicit
- art isn't democratic. it isn't for the people
- sometimes art is only for the people
*this one in particular applies to graphic design as well, in absolute severity.
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