Author: donald

Donald Kolberg graduated with a Fine Arts Degree from California State University, Los Angeles. He taught at the Los Angeles School of Art and co-founded Art Core, an organization dedicated to the open dialogue and display of the work of emerging artists. He continued his Master studies at Otis Art Institute. While at Otis Art Institute his teacher and main influence was internationally recognized painter Arnold Mesches. In Artcore he worked under the guidance of Lydia Takashita. With their teaching Donald learned the value of depth, texture and form in images and surface. He incorporated this into his concept of Life Forms, the portrayal of the human figure as a landscape of life and a celebration of form through Sculpture and Painting.

Successful Concepts for Artists

Once you’ve decided to throw caution to the wind and become the sculptor or painter you knew you could be there are a few things you should remember to become successful. And no, I am not going to rehash what you have probably read a dozen times concerning carrying a sketch pad, viewing art or any of the other tried and true top ten methods. I am going to explain the three most important concepts that you need to know and need to repeat over and over again.

First Concept

Do not beat yourself up over what you think you should be doing. This means that you will make mistakes, find yourself creating art that is not as good as something you saw in a book and generally feel that your work isn’t up to par with your peers. So what, it’s your work and you put the time into its creation. Even if you hate it you will have understood why it’s going in the trash. This leads us to the second important idea.

Second Concept

Throw things away. Yes it is true that not everything you do should be seen by the world. I know you want to keep it for reference for the next piece. But the truth is if it’s going to be part of a later painting you already have the idea in your mind. Besides, you didn’t like the first piece you did anyway.

Third Concept

Forgive yourself. This is the most important thing to remember. You need to do this because you will ignore concept number one and beat yourself up on a regular basis. Then once you forgive yourself for not remembering the first concept, forgive yourself for not adhering to the second concept. You and I both know you will never let go of that doodle you did in a coffee shop that you know is the beginning of your greatest piece of art.

So there you have it. Success in your mind is the most important component to success in the field of art. Remember this is straight talk from an artist who regularly beats himself up about how poorly his ideas have translated into his art. And, who has masterpieces created years ago in a high school drawing class hidden away, waiting to be used in that defining masterpiece. But who also knows that the joy of creating his art has become more important and satisfying each day of his life.

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Call to Artists and Gallery Owners for articles and interviews

I have a growing international online art  newsletter, http://donaldkolberg.com/art_core.htm and an art blog, http://artblog.donaldkolberg.com I am placing this call out to artists and gallery owners in an effort to supply something more than another site to display their work. Your individual project will be published under the  Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License   so you will be able to use it on your own site free of charge. All I ask is that you forward the newsletter link of your published piece to your friends and fans.

This can be an information article about your work or an interview you have done or one created from the questions below. In either case I will display some of your works and include links to your website and other social media. If you are interested please send the response to dskolberg@gmail.com.

Please remember to include 4-8 jpegs of your work and your contact and social media sites.

When did you first start to realize you were on the path to becoming an artist?
What is the primary medium you work with and why?
Tell us about your style of art and how you have developed this visual voice.
What subject matter inspires you to create art and how do you keep motivated when things get tough in the studio?
What projects or pieces are you working on now?
What artists (famous or not) or art movements have influenced you and why?
How have you handled the business side of being an artist?
Tell us about another artist’s site you think our audience might like to see.
Is there anything else you would like to add about yourself?
And we have to ask, what advice would you give other artists about being an artist?

If you have any questions feel free to contact me
Donald

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Blogs Need Attention Like Everything Else

by Jo Allebach

After searching around in various places, I discovered that blogging was like anything else, it needed attention. […]

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Sculpture Magazine May 2011 Issue – Lee Bul

 

 

Lee Bul: Phantasmic Morphologies

by Michaël Amy

Who we are is determined to a considerable extent by what we are. The what includes our origins in time and place, gender, race, social status, sexual orientation, education, and political and religious convictions. Once we have this information, we believe that we know enough about a person to be able to classify and judge him or her. We have a tendency to embrace stereotypical thinking.

The South Korean artist Lee Bul moves away from what we know—or what we think we know. Her work examines how the mind functions by exploring some of its dreams, ideals, and utopias. Interviews with Lee over the years have shown her to be a highly sophisticated and articulate thinker, with a wide range of interests in the history of ideas, the cultures of both East and West, and science and technology. Her work argues that everything is in a state of flux, that many of the notions we accept as laws are often the product of bias and can—therefore—be corrected, and that the imagination constitutes an all-conquering power. Surrealism is an important source for Lee’s ideas and images. She understands imagination’s ties to cognition and knows from firsthand experience how it can free one from physical and ideological bonds, thus becoming of critical importance to survival.

Thaw, 2007.

Fiberglass, resin, acrylic paint, black crystals, and mixed media, 93 x 113 x 212 cm.

Photo: Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, NY.

via Sculpture Magazine May 2011 Issue – Lee Bul.

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This is incredible work

glass sculpture Focus Glass by Peter Newsome, ...
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Peter Newsome’s Clear-Form Glass Assemblage

The contemporary techniques of glass artist; Peter Newsome have been some of the curiosities many artists become fascinated with. Newsome has been a passionate sculptor of glass since the early 1990’s and has mastered both traditional glazier and glassworker techniques as well as some adaptive contemporary techniques. His skills allow him to hand-slice layers upon layers sheet glass in precise forms for his assembled compositions. Many of his works resemble organic strands or waves depending on the contortion of his subject. Newsome’s background in the glass engineering industry has led him to acquire several original methodologies for practicing original glasswork. He has exhibited several of his sculptures at many international art hubs such as the London Art Fair at Burton’s Court, Chelsea and at Newby Hall Sculpture Park, Yorkshire.

Sculpture by Photography by Gerardus

Newsome employs a sort of ray-like intensity by focusing on the overlapping transparencies of the media. The edges where the glass cuts off into air become patterns when pit against each other in natural light. The artist’s ability to materialize designs in three dimensional space is coupled with his capability to imagine the unique transparencies of their compositions as well. Since his popularization in the glass art industry, Newsome has been a well recognized modern sculptor, especially within the communal Chelsea areas.
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