Daisy, Eat Your Foot

Articulation

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:35:00 -0500

I have always described myself as an introvert who loves people. I love to problem solve and internalize my thoughts, which makes me an introvert, but for me, being around the people I love is utterly euphoric. This has guided my personal interests throughout my entire life in different ways. It is why I am drawn to art and theatre and the communities that surround the two. I love hearing people’s stories more than anything else in the world – and I love the peculiar ones. I think that this is why I have never enjoyed math or the standardized testing that goes along with it. I don’t believe learning should be constricted to awarding what is right and punishing what is wrong. We cannot learn if we do not make mistakes, and if we get punished for our mistakes, how can we advance? They are what make us individuals. As an individual, I think that my greatest skills are listening sympathetically to all stories (seriously, the weirder, the better,) and problem solving when things aren’t in my favor. Independence is also something that is very important in my life. None of these skills are perfect, by any means, but it is something that I look forward to critiquing every day.

I am a storyteller, but more importantly I am a story listener. This is something that I have not identified until recently, but I have been interested in this for my entire life. One of my favorite memories as a child was listening to my grandpa tell stories at my grandparents’ house in Northern Michigan. We would sit on the couch as my grandpa would flip through photo books of all the photos he had taken over the years. My favorites were of the times he spent with my Grandma in non-touristy parts Mexico after he had retired. There seemed to be a story attached to every one of them. However, I never viewed these as art, and he never called himself an artist. I just always appreciated it for what it was – a good memory worthy enough of a story. Now, I was not even remotely interested in art until I was a sophomore in high school. I quickly became incredibly interested in Kandinsky and the Expressionist art movement. I thought it was so interesting how stories could be told entirely without words, or even recognizable visual images. It was the first time that I really viewed art as a concept, and not just a pretty picture. This kept me interested until my freshman year of college, but I quickly become discouraged because I felt like I didn’t have personal stories worthy enough to be told through my art, which is when I found theatre. Through theatre, I quickly realized the impact and the art of telling other people’s stories. It seems that I am always attracted to the dark stories, and in particular, the darkly comic ones. You know, the ones where everyone dies, and you laugh about it. I have never been able to pinpoint why, but they seem to be the most impactful. All of this has impacted my visual art. I am deeply interested in photography and the “instant memories” that they create, but I am also interested in the abstract non-representative style of storytelling. My work is usually relatively dark, since those are the stories that I am drawn towards.

My life as an artist is an ever-growing process that I look forward to learning from. Maybe my interests will change. In fact, they most certainly will, and I will continue to articulate and respond to my process. This is something I that I looked forward to because it is my story.

Krista Mickelson

cavetocanvas: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Unwelcome Confidences,...

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:14:47 -0400

cavetocanvas:

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Unwelcome Confidences, 1902

iheartmyart: Ahmed Mater, Evolution of Man, 2010

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:08:50 -0400

iheartmyart:

Ahmed Mater, Evolution of Man, 2010

darksilenceinsuburbia: Nicolas Hasapopoulos……

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 17:33:31 -0400

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Nicolas Hasapopoulos……

tastefullyoffensive: [via]

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 17:28:19 -0400

tastefullyoffensive:

[via]

touquetouque: Artist of the day: Adrian Williams, from...

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 17:28:13 -0400

touquetouque:

Artist of the day: Adrian Williams, from Winnipeg, MB

darksilenceinsuburbia: Ernesto Caivano. An Offering for...

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 17:28:06 -0400

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Ernesto Caivano.

An Offering for Courtship, 2004.

Brief Tangle with Rope, 2004.

http://www.ernestocaivano.com/

cavetocanvas: David Hockney, Place Furstenburg, Paris, August...

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:26:05 -0500

cavetocanvas:

David Hockney, Place Furstenburg, Paris, August 7,8,9, 1985 #1, 1985

dailyartjournal: Andrea Rathert-Schützdeller

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 11:13:44 -0500

dailyartjournal:

Andrea Rathert-Schützdeller

cavetocanvas: Frantisek Kupka, Madame Kupka Among Verticals...

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 11:12:17 -0500

cavetocanvas:

Frantisek Kupka, Madame Kupka Among Verticals (detail), 1910-11

Here is a detail photo of mine of Mme Kupka Among Verticals by Frantisek Kupka that may be of interest to your readers. While not the full picture I feel it does the vibrancy of the painting more justice in terms of the more accurate colouring.

(Submitted by firstfloormetaphor)

greyfaced: vanished by: Gabriel Zambrano

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:05:22 -0500

greyfaced:

vanished

by: Gabriel Zambrano

paxmachina: Ummmm ok MIT, yer the smartiest! Marcelo Coelho -...

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:05:13 -0500

paxmachina:

Ummmm ok MIT, yer the smartiest!

Marcelo Coelho - ‘Art-O-Meter’

Evaluating Art (So You Don’t Have To)

Art-O-Meter is a device that measures the quality of an art piece. It bases its evaluation on the amount of time that people spend in front of an artwork compared to the total time of exhibition. The measurements are graphically represented by comments and a 5-star rating system.

Without the interaction of a viewer, the Art-O-Meter will register time like a regular clock. However, when a user enters the area covered by its motion sensor, a second timer is triggered and it will count time as the viewer observes the artwork.

photojojo: Photos from Joel Tettamanti’s beautiful...

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:03:28 -0500

photojojo:

Photos from Joel Tettamanti’s beautiful documentation of Greenland.

A Portrait of Greenland

dailyartjournal: Fitz Herrera, Untitled

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:03:20 -0500

dailyartjournal:

Fitz Herrera, Untitled

cavetocanvas: Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Triumph of Death,...

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:00:12 -0500

cavetocanvas:

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Triumph of Death, c. 1562

From the Museo del Prado:

In this moral work, the triumph of Death over mundane things is symbolized by a large army of skeletons razing the Earth. The background is a barren landscape in which scenes of destruction are still taking place. In the foreground, Death leads his armies from his reddish horse, destroying the world of the living. The latter are led to an enormous coffin with no hope for salvation. All of the social institutions are included in this composition and neither power nor devotion can save them. Some attempt to struggle against their dark destiny while others are resigned to their fate. Only a pair of lovers, at the lower right, remain outside the future they too will have to suffer.

This painting depicts a customary theme in Medieval literature: the dance of Death, which was frequently used by Northern artists. Brueghel casts the entire work in a reddish-brown tone that gives the scene an infernal aspect appropriate for the subject at hand. The profusion of scenes and moralizing sense applied by the artists are part of Hieronymous Bosch’s influence on this work.