Jessie Ware on Learning to Trust Herself is an interview that highlights the increase in confidence from first album to second. Artists of every type do this, doubting themselves, and critiquing their work harder than they would another's. Earlier today I was bad-mouthing my own sketch of the Disney princess, Belle when the person beside me told me that is was really good.
The old saying, practice makes perfect, hits home if I think about where I was with my artwork before, whether a month or a year ago. The first still-life I did in Art Class was of one of my moms shoes, and while the shoe was pretty, I didn't do it justice. For the next still-life the instructor made scenes on the stage, I chose to draw an antique chair that had the bottom falling out with a hat perched on top of it. While that piece could still improve, it is much better than the poor heel.
The image above is the second still-life, before it was completed.
The article relates to Honors World Geography because music influences people, this artist tends to write dark, unrequited love songs which could influence the people listening to it to become bitter about their unrequited love, or they could be happy that they have love, it depends on the situation that the listener is in. In the book we recently finished reading in Honors English I, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, William fixes radios, and eventually learns to power them, songs from this artist are on the radio frequently, this interview was on the radio! It's strange to think about people so far away possibly being able to listen to the same things that we do in the US. How would this have affected someone in Africa differently from you?
Works Cited
"Jessie Ware On Learning To Trust Herself." NPR. NPR. Web. 07 Nov. 2014. .
I know the feeling of criticizing my own work. Me being a musician, I can always find something to work on weather it is a hard part in the music or a simple scale. I am always trying to improve. I find it strange sometimes when I hear about how someone that is in a different part of the world could be listening to the same music or watching the same video on the internet as I am.
ReplyDeleteEven if your painting is very bad do not criticize your own work. You have to realize that most painters paint the most abstract art and some are not even that appetizing to the eye. In my eighth grade year I was in art class, and we bad to draw a picture of what we found out of a magazine, Of course me being me I will pick a shoe and I will have to say that in my elementary school years I absolutely was horrid. I drew my shoe at school(which was a heel)and showed to my teacher and she said it was a work of art. I don't know if she was trying to make me happy, but I'm guessing it was really good. I love art and this post! Keep posting more!
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