Reflections

So I've been thinking a lot about how I view art and what I think art is and I'm not really sure if I have an answer for the general world to agree upon but I think I am starting to understand how I view things on my own. At the very beginning of fall semester when we first had to start writing these blogs I wrote that I hoped to figure out the things that I personally consider art, or my own style and I think I now have a piece of that puzzle. Things that I consider true art, or things that really impress me the most are the innovative and repurposing of old ideas or objects. They are the ones that get me to think oh hey, now that's cool! They make me wonder how the artist even thought of that idea. Or like Rob Doisneau how he happened to be in those exact places in that certain time.  I find that I am a difficult person to please in this criteria, not because I don't enjoy life or anything-I'm actually a very easily amused person- but because I think that true art is not something that every one can do no matter how hard they try. It's a really strange concept that I even think like that because in my own work ethic at school and in life I think that effort counts for 99% of the result. Seeing my peers' work at school really reinforces this idea that art is not all something you can learn. To be blatantly honest, I have yet to see a piece of work that someone has made at my school that has given me that feeling of being impressed. Sounds super harsh I know, but I also apply those rules to myself too soooo I guess they even out? Looking back on all the artwork that I have ever done, I see a lot of attention to detail and hard work put into it -but is all that enough to call myself an artist by my own standards? I don't really think so. ha ha ha. I yet to impress myself I guess!! More later on this, I'm sure.