On Monday Jimmy showed us a documentary on a group of artists called the "Beautiful Losers". At the end of the film he gave us a homework assignment to answer two questions on the film. The first question was What was there inspiration? In the film I felt that their inspiration came from the kids they grew up with , a lot of their child hood memories and the innocence of youth. The second question was What where there ideas? One thing was to be self inspired, not fitting in, non judging and to think out of the box. A lot of their ideas were also based on being creative and not labeling themselves as one particular thing. As they grew older, most of them became designers and artists for commercial art, but they never lost their original views on art. They didn't sell out, but they bought their style of art to the mainstream world and let people who wouldn't normally see it take a look at it.
I really liked this movie I thought that it was very inspirational, after seeing it gave me motivation to do what I want and not let people bring me down on my art.
I liked the film a lot also for the same reason... it was a bit inspiring. About how they never changed, I feel that they are so true to themselves that they never saw it coming; they were so absorbed in their art/friendship/community that their career's as artists were seemingly en route in a heeded direction, until one day it hit them that they were doing big things (as was stated in the film, referring to their trip to produce work in Japan).
ReplyDeletePlease post your video on your blog, when it's ready (before class).
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jimmy