So today I was excited to go to my first artist talk ever! I know that is completely bad of me especially because I am an art studio major but life gets so busy sometimes. Anyway I learned a lot at this artist talk and found it surprisingly inspiring. I was surprised that I found it so inspiring because i had already walked through the museum and seen all the work but I didn't realize how different and eye opening it is to hear the artist talk about his or her work.
Particularly hearing Suzanne Schireson talk about her work was inspiring to me. Something particular that was so fascinating to me is that it really seemed that the group of paints and the individual paintings really represented a part of her life. Like how she was naming her paintings after an books that she was reading I think it was Moby Dick and she titled her work after a singers song but it was her interpretation of the tittle not the artist. Suzanne talked about her friends or what seemed to be mentors and how they have affected her work. For example she talked about how one of her older friends was so appalled by a color pink. There was a group of hot pink flowers and Suzanne's friend claimed that it made the flower bed look unbalanced. Something as simple as this mad Suzanne inspired to create a whole painting around this color. I found it interesting the way that she said she uses portrait paintings as kind of her home base to center herself and bring her back to a place where she was comfortable. I enjoyed hearing her talk about how she planned the composition of her paintings and what she was looking at when she was creating them. I like how her paintings consistently had her self in them it added a unity to her work. I am an art major as I mentioned and painting/ drawing is my concentration I have a hard time choosing between the two. However painting is a love of mine it grabs me and reels me in particularly life like paintings like Suzanne's.
Although I do have a soft spot for crisp realistic paintings I was taken back by me interest for Craig Hoods paintings. They had a sort of quality to them that was unique and beautiful. They had a sort of peaceful quiet message to them with big stories behind them i feel like. I liked the unity of tone in his paintings. I also loved drawings i found it so interesting that he had such trouble them them before because of a simple task like erasing and when he found a new tool that fixed the problem that the crisp eraser gave him it opened up a whole new world of drawing to him and he fell in love with drawing all over again.That just proved to me that you have to have an open mind and keep at whatever is frustrating you. Suzanne also talked about using different tools to make curtain marks on her paintings. That just proves to me that that is what being an artist is. It is having an open mind and that there really is no rules you make your own and you constantly strive for goals that you make yourself weather it is to stay inspired like Suzanne's or to accomplish a simple drawing technique like erasing the right way in oder to fall in love with drawing again like Craig's.
Unfortunately I did not have time to stay for the last artist that was scheduled to talk but I took a lot away from the two artist that I did get to hear talk about their work. I was greatly inspired by what they both had to say and learned a lot of what challenges is to look forward to as an artist.
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