No creativity

Questions and Topics for Your Blog Posting:

1.   For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.

Sculpture: I learned that artists are commissioned to be creative. They don’t create for creation’s sake, and maybe make money selling their creation; rather they are paid first and create later, with the help of labor.

I learned that the laws of physics are just as important as the creativity. The technical skill requires at least a background in trigonometry. Choosing the type of stone is more about physics than anything else.

I learned that quarry men were used as exploited labor. In capitalism, at least labor is exploited for economic profit. Here they were just exploited “just because.”

2.   How do the videos relate to the readings in the text?

For the marble sculptures, not much. For the glass, it was almost the same as the textbook described.

3.     What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of the topics: Sculpture, Installation, and Craft?

As an artist, the films bored me to tears. They offered absolutely no insight into the creativity process. They were all about the “technicality.” A labor supply was more important than the actual creating of something. Yes, the artist had the “vision,” but it was a pool of laborers that actually did the work. This is specifically what Karl Marx defined as alienation.