Abstract- what is considered art?

My creative act of the week is practicing my photography skills!

I went out to James bay to find Ogden point but I got lost instead and found such a pretty beach! I took quite a bit of photos, experimenting on the angle and lights.

The first one was taken by a friend as I was taking photos.

I took the second photo was taken at Uvic as we were leaving. I thought it had an interesting level play and angle to it.

I took the third photo on the shore and i liked how the sun is being reflected on the water.

I have been thinking a lot about what has been discussed in a few of my art classes.

What is considered art?
How do you distinguish the difference between mass photography and art photography?
What makes it artistic?

Back in highschool, what my teacher considered an A is when we can paint or draw something very realistic. In university, the teachers try to steer us away from the realism idea. It's overdone! Make something different, it can even be weird, as long as we have some kind of explaination why we do that, it is all good! I was looking at some paintings some university students have done and some looks like the kind of painting my highschool art teacher would criticised majorly. I suppose those ones do have more thoughts and emotions into them but how would you know?

I feel like I can just take out a canvas and squirted paints on it and sell it for $5000.
I saw an article on a farmer who made a painting with horse feces and priced it thousands of dollars. I'm not sure if he actually sold it or not but I'm not sure if I would consider him an artist. How does a farmer who made such painting can ask for thousands of dollars and get famous but a university graduate often times can't even get to that point?

Jackson Pollock's famous painting that was shown is worth a lot of money, but i am not sure if I would even notice it as something amazing if i were passing by the painting not knowing how much it's worth.

I feel like i need to bend my mind a lot this year to understand what kind of art i need to produce in my classes to get a good mark.

Career on something you love?

Lecture: Peter Sandmark

Such a coincidence to have him as the lecturer. I think I just found what I would love to do as a career about a few days before the lecture.

My act of creativity of the week is volunteering at Rifflandia music festival. The volunteering part doesnt sound very creative but this is a music festival, therefore there was also a lot of arts and photography involved. I had to help out at the headquarters exchanging wristbands and getting ready for the shows. I also helped out at the venues during the shows and it was great. I know I am not exactly producing something, but it was the highlight of my month. I realised I wanted to be an event co ordinator for some kind of arts and culture event for my career. I have also thought of working as an art director, however that will be a very competitive one and I think I have to work a lot harder to be successful.

I took a lot of photographs of the shows and I also met a quite well known photographer, Sarah Bastin as i was giving her the wristband. I watched her took photos that night and googled the photos she took a few days after.

It just made me realise how much art is being used in our everyday life for entertainment and such.

This relates to Peter Sandmark's lecture because he also works as the arts and culture event coordinator in Victoria. He was successful in having a career on something that he loves.

Psychology lecture- drawing on people's boards

The lecture on psychology was quite interesting to me. It made me think how the smallest things we do on a daily basis can be considered being creative, like adapting to new situations or problem solving ability. I have always thought of creativity as something artsy.

-"you can't define creativity"

soo..... how do we talk about being creative when we can't define creativity?... is it just about our own definitions of creativity?

I have been getting requests from my floormates for a drawing on their boards on the door. So that is what i did for my act of creativity of the week. I did not just make a random drawing, but i tried to make special ones for each one with some hidden meaning behind it. Isn't that the fun part about making art?


*Jovitzzz*

First act of creativity? Covering teddy bear i cardboard?

FA 100 seems like its going to be a very interesting class!.. I'm usually not a big fan of lectures but of course lectures on things you can relate to is worth sitting for!



I'm really excited for the final group project for this class and other little projects too.

This week's act of creativity will be covering my teddy bear in cardboard. It sounds really weird at first and you would think "how the heck do you cover a teddy bear in cardboard?"

It's NOT easy! I had to cut little pieces to form the roundish shape of the teddy bear. It took forever, however I think im pleased enough with the outcome.I finished it on September 23, which means i put about five to six hours of work into it.

Some people think it's super weird, like a bear vader. Some think it's so amazing. It gave the bear a very rough scary look at the end.

I think it's quite interesting. I couldn't really visualize what it would look like at the end, but i think i was going for more of a softer look.