Presentation Write-up

Willem de Kooning has been my largest inspiration on my own work to date. Whether my paintings look similar to his or not doesn't concern me; it's his method that I base my artistic lifestyle on. He never got too attached to any paint stroke or charcoal dash. His work was as a machine driven by the will of the painting, not the other way around. 

His work was surely focused on figure painting which may seem very odd to someone when they look at a painting like the one above. His work was not concerned with what words it could categorize itself into, but the limits that it could break past. 

He lived as one of the New York avante-garde until his death in 1997. 

De Kooning Presentation, Capp.pptx

Outline and Bibliography.pdf

Journal 3

 The point that Barthes makes in this chapter that speaks to me the most is his description of Beethoven. He makes the connection that to compose music while going deaf, demands a specific presence in the music that is different from common experiences. The same intangible, but experiential presence can be found in any work of art and for that matter, anywhere because I think art can be created as soon as it's recognized. Random shadows in a classroom or the way wind flattens out a field of grass; this can be art if you think of it right. 

I hope my artwork has or at some point, will give the audience a sense of upraised presence. I feel like the most likely candidate for that kind of reaction is my large-scale painting. Here is an example. This is a work in progress and soon it will be covered in charcoal. 

That last picture is the full work so far. Now... behold the drawing wall of losing. These are more complete drawings for the class...