Visual Culture / Journal N°1

Visual Culture / Journal N°1

Journal N°1

 

Today, Monday The 2nd of February.

Today I went to Brooklyn. I took the L train from 1st avenue to Bedford, and then walked three blocks to go to my friend’s apartment. The way to go there was nothing special: Brooklyn’ Bricks houses and thrift shops, nothing abnormal for a district like Williamsburg.

I spent the afternoon at my friend’s apartment. Nothing had caught my view yet. But on my way back to the subway, something struck me. I was doing the exact same way but in the opposite direction, meaning facing different walls. At the crossing of Bedford and 9N I saw this geometric Graffiti representing two great artists: Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Wharol. Behind this meaning there was a precise goal, meaning: Fight for Street Art, which is represented by the boxing gloves. This fight is a pacific fight led by the power of art.

 

 

What I love about this work of art is that, thanks to different geometrical square shapes, the artist created a very realistic and smooth drawing. The geometrical shapes and the drawing are perfectly blending together. I was also surprised by the fact that I could actually appreciate something so colorful.

I also think that if I was so astonished by this work of Art is because it put a little color in this snowy and grey day.

Seeing this graffiti also taught me because when I got home, I looked for more information about Basquiat and Wharol and saw that those two famous artist were collaborating even though their style were different. I also learnt that they were close friends.

I decided to describe this graffiti because it was an important moment of my day and also because those artists really enter the visual Culture theme.

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My name is Louise Maltaverne. I am a 20 year old student at Parsons the New School for Design. I am a Junior majoring in Integrated Design. I first entered Parsons as a Strategic Design and Management major; as an artist I wanted to be my own advocate. I soon realized that I wanted to spend my academic career as an an art student rather than as a business one. A sense for business is something that value a lot but that doesn't quite equalize what I feel when it comes to artistic practices. Art impacts every aspect of my life, its role is significantly present in everything I feel and everything I do. I practice art extremely intuitively, freely and playfully and its power operates on me, not only as an artist but as a human being unconsciously. Indeed, art doesn't only make me grow as an artist but also as a human being. Art is helping me everyday to become a more patient, more focused, precise and calm. Ideally I see my self becoming an artistic director, a bridge between various sectors of the art field: design, fashion, photography and fine art. At the moment, the art forms that fulfill me the most are: drawing which i do in a very obsessive and repetitive way; fashion which I either practice very technically, or , on the other hand extremely freely and finally photography which allows me to exerce my eye, capture moments an create atmospheres but which also acts a meeting platform for the two last practices I was describing. Indeed, as abstract as it may sounds, what I love the most is creating a character thought the means of fashion, make up and molding; then capture this setting through photography and finally overlay the image with some of my abstract drawings. Like this it feels extremely personal, like an exteriorization of my self. People do art for various kinds of reasons; whether it is for political, social, philosophical or therapeutical reasons. I believe that artists by some sort of internal flame, as abstract as it may be. I am not a 100% sure yet when it comes to why I make art, but what I know is what it means for me: freedom, expression and exchange.

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