An artist that influences me is Robert Longo. His artwork is very expressive, using people doing poses or actions in a overdramatic way.
His artwork is a lot like the same, almost repetitive, but at the same time it's captivating and interesting. I can't pick just two pieces of his work to put here.
To me, Longo's use of people in dramatic poses seem to speak a lot about how people sometimes feel on a day to day basis. They are often dressed in formal/work attire, which I think speaks a lot about their daily working lives and the frustrations and stress that comes with. I think it says a lot about how we all have to obey or commit to a certain daily ritual day by day in order to make a living in the world. I almost get a zombie feel to some of these pieces, as if we are slaves to our repetitive daily routines.
I feel like Robert Longo's art is a lot about people's longing to fulfill their desires but have to do what society expects us to do, and do what others think is appropriate, or right, or "normal". I feel like Longo's art is what people feel like behind their fake smiling faces, for those who are not truly happy in what they do. My Big Idea is having a sense of belonging, and I feel like a lot of the people within Longo's art lost their concept or feeling of what their sense of belonging is, and so they go along with the rest of society, because they have to and since they don't know where they belong, they go with what they think they belong to, or what others think they belong to.
Lexi-
ReplyDeleteThis was a really smart and insightful post. You synthesized your idea with Longo's work well.
There is also a sense of falling in these artworks... almost like they have given up on their social norms and are letting themselves fall into whatever is left.
You might like this artist too:
Kerry Skarbakka