Integrative Seminar (Week 13)

This week we discussed how artist describes their work, which is generally called ‘artist statement.’ This is a descriptive text which the artist display with the work to explain it his way. This is like an addition to the work because it’s really necessary to represent your work in the right way. So that you can convey the right message. An artist statement should contain an introduction to the work, the concept used, view of the individual, explanation of the work, how the artist got inspired, and it also depends on the target audience. The artist has to write in such manner that audience can relate to. And what we should not is that we should not brag, should not be poetic, should be simple, direct and understandable, should not have cliches and should not be too technical. It should be easily understandable by the audience so that they can have the sense of the artwork by just reading it.