I understand that I should be posting in this blog more frequently. However, as with other online writings  that I have done, I always made sure I had something to say and to say it as concise as I possible can. The english language is a terrible thing to waste with needless words.

I've actually looked up a few artists it what little spare time I have, and I came across some work I actually find interesting to talk about.

I was in the school library not oo long ago, and I was looking for an interesting photography book to look at. I Found this one book by Robert Polidori titled After the Flood. It is basically a documentation of the Aftermath after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. As I was flipping through his book, I took note of several things I noticed about his book. It appeared as though he had taken hundreds of images, and decided that all the images worked for the project. It seems as if he had absolutely no editing skills. True that each image worked for the project, but majority of them were not self standing images that would portray the message he is trying to send.  They appeared as if they could have been taken anywhere, not necessarily in new orleans. I also noticed that some of the images that he has online from that book, are very centered.

Granted, he did have some strong compositions in sme of the photograps through out the book, but I feel that perhaps he could have narrowed it down to atleast 100 strong images and edited the rest out. Afterall, isn't an important part of art creating a  strong portfolio (in his case a book)?

A few weeks ago, my boyfriend checked out a book from the Library of the artist Ivan Albright,  since he was recommended to look at his work due to the similarities in style and to get some sort of inspiration to try something new.  So he shared the book with me in amazement of how incredible his work was. Ivan had a way of making something uncomfortable to look at, but you just couldn't look away since his work is strangely beautiful. Perhaps it the way he knew how to make skin, really look like skin, and not some glorified rendering of it. The dark backgrounds and the tone range that he used made everything seem morbid and in some pieces, he made skin look like it was rotting. Most of the work he did was extremely intricate as well. Each time you view at his work, you find something you didn't notice before. Apparently, towards the end of his life he became blind, but he never saw it as a hinderance. I think his work only became more intricate as he became blind.

I promise I won't take up too much more of your time, as I am wraping up this entry. The final artist my friend actually showed me today as I was taken back by her graphite drawings with which I thought were black and white photographs at first. But then you see the subtle odditities in the drawings and that's what really made me notice that it was graphite.

 

Why are these people sitting around watching the tornado coming after them instead of seeking shelter?

Looks like a flaming cup of coffee...

The insinuation of flying

This is one the the first immages of hers that I saw that made be believe this is a photograph. both the leg and the wooden pole to the left of the body have roundness to it makes it realistic.

Alas, I am drawing this entry to a close. As I stated before, just becasue I am not updating on the regular, does not mean I am not doing research. This is some of the research I have done over the course of three weeks, but I am finally getting around to writing as I sit here at school at 1:20 a.m. trying to fulfill the blog requirements for this class. I understand one would be needed in an art school to pssibly post one's work and to discuss their own work, but to be graded on lbog usage when there are other tasks for other classes to be done, is slightly annoying since I can not be in my pajamas and in bed as I write this, but instead, in the mac lab...