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MANIFESTO THE RULES - 5 points was chosen because of my research into Rothko and Corbusier - I wanted to write a manifesto for myself because I have nothing to say about how other people should live. Giving advice is a thankless and often uncalled for task. - I wanted to effectively troubleshoot my shortcomings on the diploma. - Focus on my process. Systems Art STEFAN SAGMEISTER 'What is your typical process. that is, how do you develop an idea? How important is collaboration in your process? The process I’ve been using most often has been described by Maltese philosopher Edward DeBono, who suggests starting to think about an idea for a particular project by taking a random object as point of departure. Say, I have to design a pen, and instead of looking at all other pens and thinking about how pens are used and who my target audience is etc., I start thinking about pens using…(this is me now looking around the hotel room for a random object)…bed spreads. Ok, hotel bedspreads are…s...

INTRO TO FOUNDATION WORKSHOPS See Surrender Salvation     Photoshop Workshop  - Mira Schendel - Did not enjoy - Laborious  Working with text quite boring. Not inspired by the letters .Prefer the handwritten look Collage Workshop  - Dada movement - Cecil Touchon  - Francis Picabia My experiments feel gaudy and punk, which is not my aesthetic at all.  I think with collage there is an element of irremovable abrasiveness which I really don't like. I much prefer a collage once it has been flattened and photocopied. Photography Workshop  -Absurdism, Ai Wei Wei I took issue with the photography workshop brief, 'take pictures that reflect how I feel about Carmel'. I thought ' well I feel largely apathic  to Carmel. What a silly brief this is something for kids!'. Initially , I tried to take it seriously. I quickly realised that my photographs would feel slack-ish and insincere, and the process lethargic.  Ai Wei Wei, Study of Perspectives T...

 https://www.engelvoelkers.com/en/blog/luxury-living/architecture/le-corbusiers-style-and-design-philosophy/ https://www.studio2a.net/corbusier-manifesto-five-points-of-new-architecture/  L’Esprit Nouveau: Corbusier's Architectural Manifesto Full Disclosure  To my great surprise, during my research, I found out Le Corbusier was a Nazi. -Well, there is debate. Some argue that Corbusier was no fascist, but an opportunist who would suck up to any regime in order to get his buildings made. I have no intention to make my mind up on whether Corbusier was or wasn't a fascist. We'll never truly know and his association with Vichy is enough for me to feel uneasy. It reminds me of being 15 again, going into my city's art scene thinking,  'These people are artists; they must be good people! No artist could ever be a bad person!' There is no hint of irony there, that was quite a dangerous way of thinking. Unfortunately the art world harbours a lot of predators; I've bee...

Dear Mr. Jewell, : Rothko Manifesto For Those Who Don't Know Mark Rothko was a prominent member of the New York School painters. His family emigrated to America, fearing that their eldest sons would be drafted into the Russian Imperial Army. He was awarded a scholarship to study at Yale, but left before graduating, due to the conservative environment. Rothko went to New York and began taking figure and still life drawing classes as well as enrolling at Parsons New School for Design. He is often grouped with the Abstract Expressionist movement, despite his claims that he was not an abstractionist. Rothko was inspired by mythology and the likes of Freud, Jung, and Nietzsche. A Letter Sent to The New York Times This manifesto was written as part of a letter written with Adolph Gottlieb to the New York Times in 1943. You can read the full letter here . 1. To us art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risks.  2. This world of th...

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My Hero Kiarostami ‘I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.’   Abbas Kiarostami is an Iranian filmmaker, photographer, painter and poet. He studied Fine Art at Tehran University. Kiarostami is the first Iranian filmmaker to win the Palme d’Or. 'I wanted somehow to eternalize those moments of passion and pain.’ I first met Kiarostami when I was 16. It was early September. I had just started art college. I was sleeping with a man who was much older than me. He was the first person to ever see me naked. On one occasion, I went over to his apartment and he was watching Taste of Cherry . I didn't pay much attention at all to the film, instead very much focused on the tingling sensation rushing through my body every time he held my hand. Afterwards, I could only remember that the film had seemed somewhat boring and very grown up . I thought back on it for years, trying to conjure up the name of what film we...