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is this a good artist statement?

i have to write an artist statement for my art show is this a good one? B=my name
B first got interested in photography when she saw her Uncle D’s photography. B wishes to go into fashion, whether it is in photography or journalism, after she graduates. Art has always been a part of B’s life and still continues to be. When she is work on her art she listens to music and that sets the mood of her work. She tries to portray the song in her work and yet not completely portray the song. B loves black and white photography and hand-coloring her pictures. B prefers hand-coloring because she can be more creative and not stick to reality. B likes trying out different alternative processes, such as selective developing, burning the film, ect. Art will always be a way for B to escape from reality.

Oh I hate writing artist statements. The worst one I had to write was for my thesis show when I graduated. Are you graduating? Well, I read your statement & though its nice, its (sorry, I don’t mean to be critical, just being honest) overdone. Almost every artist statement you read says about the same thing, there’s nothing to it that grabs the attention of the reader. Most people skip artist statements anyways because of this. I really liked a couple things you said, such as “prefers hand-coloring because she can be more creative and not stick to reality.” That’s a nice thought, can you develop this more? You can also be a little more creative, such as quote one of the songs you like to interpret, that part is very interesting & you can play it up by adding quotes & then discussing what you’ve done in your work that reflects it. For example, “If I could walk on water, If I could tell you what’s next, Make you believe, make you forget…” & then express a little more but only with your version of what it means to you. That’s just a sample of course, but things like this grab peoples attention. You end it really well, “escaping reality”, you can also tie in the song you quote with that too.

I had to write mine 40 times & then asked a few of my fellow students & professors to read over it & give me their honest opinion, that helped a lot. I ended up with something pretty elaborate, probably more then it needed to be, but I got a lot of compliments on it. Now, when I have to write an artist statement, I say something short & sweet like, “Got Clay” or “Will draw for food” & leave it at that. People love that concept, & surprisingly a lot of professors do to!

Well, congratulations on your show! Have fun!

Photography Artists Statements

How to write an artist’s statement?

I have been requested to write an Artist’s Statement about my photography, but I don’t have a clear idea what to write because my photography doesn’t have a cohesive theme. They specify I should write about the intentions behind my work, but I don’t have any kind of agenda with my photography now except to learn and have fun.
Maybe you can have a look at my flickr and help me brainstorm?
www.flickr.com/photos/jagendorf

here is a resource that has some ideas and prompts to get you started. http://www.mollygordon.com/resources/marketingresources/artstatemt/

HOW TO WRITE AN ARTIST STATEMENT

How Photography Has Come Of Age

“Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.” -W. Eugene Smith

The invention of the camera liberated painting from its reportage role. Gone was the need to produce a likeness, detail the events of the story, painting was free to express emotions. True what had gone before contained an emotional content but now painting could experiment and through imaginative interpretation allow the emotional content to predominate. Freed from this constraint the painter was able to create a new language and explore the motivations of their art.

As the 19th century evolved and throughout the 20th century painters from the impressionists through the cubists and expressionists to the minimalists could to use colour, line and form to go straight to the emotional content of their work.  The representational aspect of the work become coincidental and was pushed to the point that it became akin to lying on the grass making shapes out of clouds. Enjoyable as it may be it is secondary to the nature of clouds.

The introduction of the digital darkroom has given this freedom to photographers. The range of tools to fix and enhance the camera’s capture when pushed to its extremes produces a range of fascinating effects. When added to the filters built into the better software, images can be produced that any comparison to the original photograph is purely coincidental. As photographers explore these tools and incorporate them into their photographs so their visual language will grow. The revolution of the medium with the development from black and white into colour is taking its next step. Now with the digital darkroom’s ever growing range of tools the only limitation is the photographer’s imagination.

With the use of these tools, the skilled photographic artist can take the pop song and create, in visual terms, the lyric beauty of a baroque symphony or the down town jive of a jazz variation without a tree or a high rise in sight. Just the light captured by the camera and fine tuned into something completely different, something new that comes from the photographer.

The photographer has been liberated like the painter before them by technology. Now photographs can explore the full range of human experience including those they have no words to express. Large statements will be accessible by the photographer not only in physical terms. Although like their painter counterparts, through an additional feature of the technology, the large canvas is becoming the order of the day. That this canvas can express feelings rather than just illustrate them denotes that the photography has become an adult in the arts.

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