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Looking at your own Art
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I've been thinking of late on the manner in which we perceive our own art compared to how it is perceived and received by others. It made me curious as to how you see your own art, given that only you are privy to the entire creative process that happens both on the screen/paper etc and within your own mind. I'm sure because of that you see your own art differently to how others do the same of it. What is it that you see in your own work that they don't?
Where do you think it is going?
inb4: "Into the trash".
Where do you think it is going?
inb4: "Into the trash".
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Fings wot dun 'elped me.
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This is a list of things that I have found useful and or beneficial to my development as an artist, creative, and sometimes as a person, through building a visual library or creating and reinforcing principles. This is not a list of recommendations and I am not telling you the reader that these things are guaranteed to make you 'git gud' at "art". This is merely a list of things that I have at a time, enjoyed or found in some small way delightful as aides to my growth. Similarly, do not assume that because I haven't included something that I am dismissing it.
The list is subject to change and I may add or subtract things as I feel necessary to do so.
Books and Audio
The list is subject to change and I may add or subtract things as I feel necessary to do so.
Books and Audio
- Drawing on Archaeology / Recreating the Past - Victor Ambrus
- The Skillful Huntsman - Design Studio Press
- Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
- The Novels of Terry Pratchett
- The Novels of Philip K Dick
- Eat That Frog! - Brian Tracey
- The War of Art - Steven Pressfield
- The Collective Podcast - Ash Thorp
Documentaries and Video
- Planet Earth - David Attenborough / BBC
- The Blue Planet - David Attenborough / BBC
- Frozen Planet - David Attenborough / BBC
- Life - David Attenborough / BBC
- Horizon - BBC
- Italy Unpacked - Andrew Graham Dixon / Giorgio Locatelli
- Art of (x) - Andrew Graham Dixon
- Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry - Alison Klayman
- Jiro Dreams of Sushi - David Gelb
Films that have had an impact on me
- 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick
- Alien - Sir Ridley Scott
- Santa Sangre - Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Her - Spike Jonze
Artists that I have liked at a time or another
- Gary Hume
- John Singer Sargent
- Ilya Repin
- Isaac Levitan
- Ai WeiWei
- Lebbeus Woods
- Livio Scarpella
- Jim Dine
- Craig Mullins
- Albert Bierstadt
- Jean-Léon Gérôme
- Ludwig Deutsch
- Richard Diebenkorn
- Andy Goldsworthy
- Michael Hussar
- Tsutomo Nihei
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