Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York

This course examines ways of looking and ways of seeing, both personally & professionally as artists and in a larger cultural context. Through field trips to contemporary art and other cultural sites, conversations with visiting critical thinkers and practicioners, readings, discussions, and visual & written responses, we will examine how we look, think, act, create and respond--critically questioning our own artistic practices and ways of looking at the world.

Thursday, February 2, 2012

What Happens? (JT)
























Same color and same brush size but each mark tells a very different story.
Each brings out the quality of the other because they are both so very different from each other.
One is violent and expressive-the other light and gentle.
They both need each other because one relates to the other.
The lightness of the watercolor makes the oil paint fleshier.
The heavy oil paint makes the watercolor a fleeting moment.
They make up the framework in which they live.
In between the empty page becomes filled with a dialog between the two marks.
Is it an oppositional fight ?
Or is the empty space a gradient that mediates between the two?

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