WRITING ABOUT ART
After reading a lot of other students blogs from both UCS and various other places I’m struck by the amount of ‘artspeak’. Much of it I don’t really understand. It was interesting to compare the style of writing in the books and articles I read for my dissertation too. Some writers words are succinct, clear and true, while others are so pretentious and contorted that it is almost impossible to decipher what they are trying to say.
I find it hard to write clearly about painting or to express in words precisely what I am trying to achieve. Painting (for me)has become a very intuitive business. A painting is a way of conveying an emotion and in some cases a sense of place. It is a visual image of a thought. I don’t want to talk about it but instead to leave the viewer to think their own thoughts; feel their own emotions. These do not have to coincide with mine necessarily. The paintings are simply arrangements of pigments and shapes. My work will mean different things to different people and that’s just fine with me.
