After watching the biographical documentary on Man Ray, I immediately thought of Jean Aguste Dominique Ingres, Neoclassicism painter, for their similar appetite for beautiful women (mainly because a large section of the movie was about Ray and his escapades with the opposite sex). However, regarding his artwork, what stuck out most for me was the clothes iron, with nails down the middle. Ray mentioned that the art inside that work was that he completely obliterated the function of the iron, thus creating an object of aesthetic value. The whole time he was explaining his iron-nails hybrid, I was trying to find a use for that object. After all, it makes a perfectly good murder weapon... and it resembled soccer or track cleats in a way... which would give it a use... but enough with this nonsense!
Ray is extremely inspirational in that he is constantly seeking innovation in the world of art. I also particularly like him because much of his works were created in "the spur of the moment" without much previous planning, or through an inadvertent discovery. I find that endearing because I make my art the same way. Planning would be similar to setting up for an inevitable failure, but with that failure ten brand new ideas spring up, and so on and so forth, with the end product being like nothing I have ever imagined in the beginning. To me, that is the most honest way to create art. Even art scholars today debate back and forth over the true meaning of art. If just the definition is so intangible, then how is it possible that the art itself be as easily created as planning and carrying out?
So instead of carving my ideas for projects into marble, i tend to them like seeds, and watch each of them bloom into something amazing. Sometimes my projects will shift 180 degrees from what I had in mind the day before, but I let that happen because it is all part of the process of discovery. I let time and experience guide my hand. Only then would everything I create be considered true works with artistic value.
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