"Art historians are fascinated by moments in history when people destroyed, defaced, or buried works of art, since the destruction of an image is an implicit acknowledgement of its tremendous power and meaning."
The genuine understanding that people take the time and effort to destroy something someone else created is such a beautiful piece of knowledge to me. A simple work of art can hold millions of words, meanings, and emotions that are beyond comprehension. This impacts me so much because art in any form was never meant to be "safe." It was never meant to be censored. In fact, I genuinely believe art was meant to make you uncomfortable; it was meant to scream when the creator was silenced. The power of a piece of work is so strong that some feel the need to get rid of it altogether.
"Given the tremendous power of images and the ways images shape our understanding, it is unfortunate that art history is not a part of the core curriculum in more high schools and colleges."
I agree that it is unfortunate, but I also dont feel surprised, because I believe that high schools specifically try to shut down any art history that reveals the truth. This may be a conspiracy, but I believe it's a way to keep us from understanding the world and what it was like back then through a deep understanding of art history. It should be a part of the core curriculum, I believe this very strongly, yet it's not, and because of this, once students reach college, they have no interest in art history and find it "boring."
An artist that influneces me so heavily would be Edward Hopper. His work really brings out this feeling of isolation, sadness, and, in my opinion, a comfortable quiet. His use of light and the mood he creates with the way he carefully sets his composition, creating a dramatic but lonely scene, is breathtaking. He creates this space that feels so familiar yet so psychologically tense that it almost feels like a movie. This is what I want to create with my work: something so intense it invokes strong emotions, allows space for the viewer's interpretation, and creates the feeling of watching a film. I personally have not looked at art or art history as of yet for my own education or practice apart from school work. I would like to explore more realism, dadaism and expressionism. I would like to explore more artists like Basquiat, Egon Schiele, Lucian Freud and Doron Langberg.
My name is Jesse and I am studying illustration currently, I am a senior and I would say the art I create is all over the place right now. I want to work on toning that to more realism and expressionism. I would say the issues of self image and the topic of family inspire my work immensely.
As much as I would love to say that a specific artist inspired the work I have made I would be lying. The work I have created up to this point has been based off of assignments and moments in time I’ve seen a piece of work that sparked a moment of “hey this would be cool to do” such as the “lovers at night” piece by Doran Langberg that I saw at the museum on a school trip and completed for an assignment. The drive to become better drives my work. Right now creating more work apart from assignments is what’s driving me more than ever that’s what makes me want to explore more.
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