TASK 1:
3 short imaginative drawing/writing tasks - airline passengers, ABA after dark, 4 line poem. Be conscious of how your solutions to these tasks enters your mind.
3 short imaginative drawing/writing tasks - airline passengers, ABA after dark, 4 line poem. Be conscious of how your solutions to these tasks enters your mind.
TASK 2:
Your task is to write about what happens ,for you personally, when you have an idea. What is it like from the moment you are given a creative task to when you have a solution? Do ideas appear gradually or pop into your head fully formed? You have to try and explain how your own mind works - not easy I know - but very useful as we can then talk about how to accelerate this process and increase your capacity for idea making!
When I have an idea I have to write it down on a piece of paper straightaway so that I do not forget it. When I first get a creative task sometimes an idea pops in my head straightaway, but at other times I have to draw or write a couple of ideas and contribute some ideas from each. If I have no idea what to do or if my mind is blank I go on the internet and look for ideas and inspiration that I can contribute in to my own work. I can see the idea in my mind for a few seconds then I will forget so therefore I have to put my idea on paper straightaway.
TASK 3:
After watching Kirby Ferguson's my idea of 'originality' changed. Before I had an idea that people and artists ideas are all original and their own. However, after watching the video and Mr. Keys telling us if a baby was in a grey room since they were born that they would have no creativity or any ideas. Kirby in his video explained how the basic elements of creativity are: first copy, second transform and thirdly combine. When an artistic piece of art or any work is said to be 'original' I admire their works creativity and uniqueness but they take their ideas from past memories. People have to contribute things they have seen, heard of, listened to into their work. Even though they are not taking ideas purposefully from their memories of their past or ideas from other works they still do. If you consider the example of a child that lived in a grey room his whole life, I believe that this child will have no imagination or creativity as he has never seen color or seen anything to know anything or have an idea do do anything. Therefore, we need see things, hear things, smell things and taste things if we want to draw something or write something.
Your task is to write about what happens ,for you personally, when you have an idea. What is it like from the moment you are given a creative task to when you have a solution? Do ideas appear gradually or pop into your head fully formed? You have to try and explain how your own mind works - not easy I know - but very useful as we can then talk about how to accelerate this process and increase your capacity for idea making!
When I have an idea I have to write it down on a piece of paper straightaway so that I do not forget it. When I first get a creative task sometimes an idea pops in my head straightaway, but at other times I have to draw or write a couple of ideas and contribute some ideas from each. If I have no idea what to do or if my mind is blank I go on the internet and look for ideas and inspiration that I can contribute in to my own work. I can see the idea in my mind for a few seconds then I will forget so therefore I have to put my idea on paper straightaway.
TASK 3:
After watching Kirby Ferguson's my idea of 'originality' changed. Before I had an idea that people and artists ideas are all original and their own. However, after watching the video and Mr. Keys telling us if a baby was in a grey room since they were born that they would have no creativity or any ideas. Kirby in his video explained how the basic elements of creativity are: first copy, second transform and thirdly combine. When an artistic piece of art or any work is said to be 'original' I admire their works creativity and uniqueness but they take their ideas from past memories. People have to contribute things they have seen, heard of, listened to into their work. Even though they are not taking ideas purposefully from their memories of their past or ideas from other works they still do. If you consider the example of a child that lived in a grey room his whole life, I believe that this child will have no imagination or creativity as he has never seen color or seen anything to know anything or have an idea do do anything. Therefore, we need see things, hear things, smell things and taste things if we want to draw something or write something.
The most emphasized part of the artwork is the area around the mouth, there are tears falling down the woman face, which indicates that she is sad, mad and lonely. This part of the painting stood out to me the most because it was the most appealing part of the painting and this area shows how the woman feels and what she is thinking about. This painting tells a story of woman that is going through a hard time, especially since it is set during the Spanish civil war and woman were not treated fairly in this time. When I first saw this painting the words that came to my head were miserable, bitter, sad and worried. This painting got me thinking about my own painting and what different meanings and layers I could use to give it a layered meaning.