went to see Betty Woodman give a lecture the other night at the AGO. It was really interesting to view her work and listen to her talk about her instillations. i'm most interested in her as a ceramic artist that approaches her work very much from a painterly point of view. her wall pieces are pretty spectacular and i loved seeing the evolution from an idea into what she is making now.
she showed a short film that i'll post. so good.
i wanted to find out more about what she would have to say about if she approaches her work as a ceramic artist, a painter or a sculptor. I love that her work spans one, two, three dimensional aspects and maybe her approach is so unique because simply, she is all three. Craftsmen, artist, doer. I loved her large wall pieces and was very interested in them as murals- the space she leaves them, the colours and combining actual painting.
At the end there was a q&a and someone asked her something to the effect of how she always finds joy in life with her use colour. I really liked her response- she basically said that she didn't think it was right to psychoanalyze an artist's life by their work. I think the audio from the talk can be heard on the ago blog site. it may not be up yet.
I've recently been reading about Picasso and the relationship between his paintings and sculptures and i couldn't help think about that as i listened to betty.
this is a quote i really liked;
"in some cases his sculpture is inspired by his paintings but at other times it is the very opposite; he may convert a canvas into a sculpture. Or from a sculpture motif he may make an entire painting."
James Sabartes on Picasso
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