Along with thousands of others, over the isolation period, we took a weekly dose of Grayson Perry’s Art Club on Channel 4. Thanks, Grayson and Philipa, it’s been a very welcome tonic. It was a little bit silly, it was a little bit odd… It was the last episode this week.
Art is about mixing it up!
Punctuating the episodes Grayson highlights some of the reasons why creating Art can be so important and relevant to people.
Mixing it up…
- To find some truths about who we really are…
- We have to be prepared to become vulnerable…
- Art involves a relationship between the artist and the subject…
- Art in whatever form you can snatch it… is a wonderful thing…
- A place to find comfort, refuge and control…
- You look with only your eyes… looking out through yourself…
- Everyone has their own way of looking at the world…
- Stop and notice the beautiful things…
It’s about feeling. It’s about projecting our thoughts/feelings onto or into an object or image. Making an image or form via our thoughts and feelings.
As a student, I recall reading Don McCullin ‘If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.’
As a student, when stuck creatively, we were taught to “Scamper”
But as mentioned before; ‘theory, formula, and process might help move things along, but nothing will replace the passion and drive, the wanting, the desire, the searching, the angst, the belief, the love…’ of a person.
Perhaps, despite what we are told by realist deconstructivists et al, perhaps it’s about feeling after all!
Listen to the noisy silence.
Jules P Richards 