Why make art?. Is Art inherently human ? To communicate What do I communicate ? Who’s my audience?...

Why make art?

Is Art inherently human ?

To communicateWhat do I communicate ?

Who’s my audience? How do I say it

Do I communicate through the art making process or in my final presentation?

a story a feeling/emotionAn idea/ an opinion

What do I use/ what medium/what technique ?

to tell a story

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vX-2dVgo0eY

To Provoke

Matthew Craven

To Decorate

Mademoiselle MauriceCoast Salish

Rex Ray

To

Play

Christopher Hassler

Mark Bradford

Document/Recordan emotion

things of interest i.e. nature,

Käthe Kollwitz Van Gogh

To

To remember

… an event, a custom.

Peter Muraay Djeripi Mulcahy, Mainly Spirit

To Investigate

Piet Mondrian, Tree Series

Add the public circle art project

Examples from 36 floating sculptures . They represent new kind of marinespecies from a previously unknown sea called

Plastic Ocean

Tuula Närhinen

systems

To Explore

Fabian Oefner

Cindy Sherman examples from sixty nine Film Stills 1977-1980

To

Challenge

Challenge who

SystemRulesDefinitionsPerceptions

What?

Gottfried Helnwein Duchamp

AudienceYourselfYour fears

Challenge yourself !

Exceed your own expectatio

ns ! Tara Donovan, ball point pen

To Imagine

Endless, New York-based artist Cai Guo Qiang

to Develop.Your thoughts, skills, understanding, etc.

To PromoteYourself

An idea or an agenda

A product

Courbet

To Explore

To existTo feel self worth/a sense of accomplishment

To Develop

To Imagine

To influence

To Remember

To PlayTo investigate

To Challenge yourselfTo Promote

To Decorate

What makes successful art?

effort

Attention to detail Looks finished

Evidence of problem solving

What makes unsuccessful art?

Quitting