Lecture 8

The guest artist this week was Sharon Louden.  Her lecture was really interesting and I found her artwork to be extremely beautiful and creative.  She is very renown and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and got her MFA at Yale.  She believes that one media does not define what the artist does.  If someone says "I'm a painter" that doesn't necessarily mean that that is all the artist does.  She is heavily influenced by nature, architecture, and hair.  She was a painting major who specialized on the figure, but got bored.  She started becoming interested in simple lines to create figures and movement.  To give a shape a sense of character.  She started merging different medias and specialties together.  Sculpture was no longer just sculpture, but involved painting and other things.  She enjoys working with abstraction because it is the artists interpretation of something without being obvious.  She mentioned art as being ever-changing.  I would agree with that statement.  All of the lectures so far have discussed how art is no longer what it used to be.  Technology is becoming more and more a part of what an artist can do.  Sharon uses technology when she works in animation.  She is beginning to become involved in animation very heavily.  In paintings, the movement of a shape is implied, but now it is there for the viewer to see.  It's like it is live painting.  It makes the viewer feel like you are part of the paper.