Robert Irwin

Robert Irwin Had very interesting ideas when it came to his works. He metioned that “art is art and so is everything else”. I thought this was the most interesting because technically art is all around us. We just never notice it because we see it all the time but just not aware of it. His idea of their being a timeless painting was his main inspiration. I liked how in one of his works he avoids the edges on pupose because that limits the artist. Eliminating imagery from a painting was one of his ideas that i thought was very effective. This can be connected to the wind powered pieces of art and using sound in different ways because they are not suppose to be made into something that you can identify or compare with something else. I usually compare other art work with imagery which is why this idea was very interesting to me. His guess work when it came to his art was worked out as he went along. What also grabbed my attention was when he said “No one is there to make an argument about quality if we put 5 intelligent people at one table to work on a project”. I thought this was a good observation. The quality in art work was his main focus through all the works that he has done and can relate to mine in that way. My project evolves quality because of the idea that I’m trying to bring a picture to life in a way.