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Artist Statement
Examples:
I’m trying to do what I have never done – give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing.”
-Pierre Bonnard
Judy Chicago (American, born
1939). The Dinner Party, 1974–
79. Ceramic, porcelain, textile,
576 × 576 in. (1463 × 1463 cm).
Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation, 2002.10. © Judy Chicago. (Photo: Donald Woodman).
“Because we are denied knowledge of our history, we are deprived of standing upon each other’s shoulders and building upon each other’s hard earned accomplishments. Instead we are condemned to repeat what others have done before us and thus we continually reinvent the wheel. The goal of ‘The Dinner Party’ is to break this cycle.”
-Judy Chicago
Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation 28 (second version) (Improvisation 28 [zweite Fassung]), 1912. Oil on canvas, 111.4 x 162.1 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, By gift 37.239. © 2015 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
“I let myself go. I thought little of the houses and trees, but applied colour stripes and spots to the canvas… Within me sounded the memory of early evening in Moscow – before my eyes was the strong, colour-saturated scale of the Munich light and atmosphere, which thundered deeply in the shadows.”
-Wassily Kandinsky
Georgia O’Keeffe, Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 (1932). oil on linen. This painting sold for $44,405,000 at Sotheby’s American Art sale on November 20, 2014.
“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else… Nobody really sees a flower – really – it is so small – we haven’t time – and to see takes time… So I said to myself – I’ll paint what I see – what the flower is to me but I’ll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it.”
-Georgia O’Keeffe,
Henri Matisse, Harmony in Red, oil painting, 70″ x 86″.
“I don’t paint things; I paint only the differences between things… I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me. What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter – a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.”
-Henri Matisse
Explore these links
https://renee-phillips.com/how-to-write-your-artists-statement/
https://www.format.com/magazine/resources/art/how-to-write-artist-statement
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