Julian Schnabel Response

most interesting thing about the artist:

Julian Schnabel's talk was interesting. I felt that the interviewer was leading Schnabel to talk about things that Schnabel wasn't interested in. The interviewer was also very dry and not really understanding of Schnabel. Schnabel was lighthearted and wearing pajamas for his interview. It was really enjoyable and the relation to Picasso seemed far off at first but there is a clear relation between them.

most interesting quote:

"art is about travel; time travel." Schnabel was explaining how paintings show a length of time. Schnabel compares paintings and art to diary entries. There is a life in each painting and a personal history. He thinks that art history is interesting beacuse people want to know about the lives of the artist at the time. Art is about time travel in this way. The want to understand the history of each piece is wanting to travel through time to understand where the diary entry started. Artists also have to travel in time to create each piece. I also just think Schnabel is awesome for saying art is about time travel.

three words:

History, sarcastic, innovated

most compelling work:

I really enjoyed Schnabel's work. I liked the range of his pieces from plate paintings to paintings on velvet to feature films. I liked his reasons for making work. He was interested in seeing something that he hadn't seen before. He wanted to make work unlike anything he had seen before. So he experimented with work on velvet and work with broken plates. He was highly interested in process. This relates to my work. I want to show process and in the importance of process. He also made things based on creating something new. This was my basis on making work with cutouts. I want to try and create something new.

Julian Schnabel questions

How do you feel about having to talk about Picasso's work along side of your own? Ironic? Honored?

You speak Spanish and French. You have a house in Spain. How is being international affect your work? Do you feel inspired by life all around the world?

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Trevor Paglen response

Interesting quote:

I found many different things that Paglen said to be very interesting. What Paglen said during his questions portion was "If I'm interested in something than there are 20,000 people interested in it too. They just don't have the time to research it." This was great. I think its a great reason to make art. I think that people want art to have more meaning. Paglen does not think that his interest is anymore complex than anyone else's. He said that he considers himself a regular guy. therefore, if he is interested in these questions than there are surely to be many more people interested in these questions. I think this applies to almost all art. People are all basically the same. If you are making artwork about anything there are many people in the world interested in it.

Three Words:

secrecy, government, research

Interesting work:

I found the most interest in the way that Paglen showed his work, not just the artwork itself. At first I thought it was strange that he was just showing us different pieces and not ever really explaining anything further. Then when asked about conspiracy theories he said that he doesn't believe in them. That he just wants to show the research in itself. He just wants to let the information hang. I like that his artwork was interspersed throughout his lecture. It was hard to determine what was his artwork and what was just research. So this made me think of researching in an artistic choice. The time spent researching these secret government plans was just as interesting or engaging as his work.

Questions Trevor Paglen

Which interests you more, Conceptual art or activism? They are both driving forces in your work but does one drive the other?

What issues do you have with the teams of people you need to create these projects (besides the government) ?

artist Post #9: Kara Walker

"Darkytown Rebellion"
2001
Installation view at Brent Sikkema, New York
Projection, cut paper and adhesive on wall, 14 x 37 1/2 feet
"Insurrection! (Our Tools Were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On)"
2002
Installation view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Projection, cut paper and adhesive on wall, 12 x 74 1/2 feet
"No mere words can Adequately reflect the Remorse this Negress feels at having been Cast into such a lowly state by her former Masters and so it is with a Humble heart that she brings about their physical Ruin and earthly Demise"
1999
Installation view at the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California
Cut paper and adhesive on painted wall, 10 x 65 feet
"Burn"
1998
Cut paper and adhesive on wall, 92 1/8 x 48 inches

Kara Walker

" The typewriter leaves every flaw intact. When I write longhand, if all else fails, I can draw a picture. I can cover up the errors, the mistakes of switches in tense or grammar. With the typewriter, it’s, “I am flawed, but I’m going to keep trying!”"

"I feel like I’m constantly at step one of learning how to be an artist, or how to make art. I have an idealized folk artist in my mind. . . . I don’t know if it’s my calling, I don’t know if there’s a divine voice behind this, but I know that I have to do it."

-Kara Walker via BOMB magazine

BIOGRAPHY

relation to my work:

Kara Walker is an artist that has been using silhouettes successfully for years now. She received the MacArthur "genius" award at 27. The youngest to ever receive one. She uses her silhouettes to interact with each other and create a narrative on the wall. In starting to use silhouettes I wonder how my silhouettes can interact with each other on the wall. Walker uses these silhouettes to rewrite Southern antebellum history. She wants to turn being an African American woman on its head. She does this by revisiting the South and rewriting who was important. She takes the American history and makes it her own retelling of it. In my work, I am trying to retell my own history. Tell people my story the way it was and I think the silhouettes will help with this. They will be my characters of characters.

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