Drawings, sketches and paintings of a 22 year old art school graduate from the Midwest.
Reading Blankets by Craig Thompson…it does such a good job portraying the Christian community in the Midwest. I can relate with so many things!! (Taken with instagram)
Has anyone signed up for Adobe Creative Cloud yet? Is it worth it? I mean it sounds like a sweet deal, but it’s kind of a toss up. Any thoughts?
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The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society. He seems a little unpredictable. Who knows but that he may arrive for dinner in a red shirt…appear unexpectedly bearded…offer, freely, unsolicited advice…or even ship off one of his ears to some unwilling recipient? However glorious the history of art, the history of artists is quite another matter. And in any well-ordered household the very thought that one of the young may turn out to be an artist can be a cause for general alarm. It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospect of having Van Gogh himself in the living room would put a good many devoted art lovers to rout.
— Ben Shahn, “The Shape of Content”
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Modern design education, on the other hand, is essentially value-free: every problem has a purely visual solution that exists outside any cultural context. Some of the most tragic victims of this attitude hail not from the world of high culture, but from the low….Until educators find a way to expose their students to a meaningful range of culture, graduates will continue to speak in languages that only their classmates understand. And designers, more and more, will end up talking to themselves.
— Michael Bierut, “Why Designers Can’t Think”
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