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Professionalism Ashley Morris
Everyone is always caught up with whatever they have going on in their lives. People on a daily basis deal with work, money, government, news, technology, and the list continues. But in reality, WE are not a big deal. As humans, we bring ourselves to be a big deal through the rules and regulations that we deal with on a daily basis. What about no rules and regulations? What about no sort of structure in society? What would the planet even feel like? Basically what I am trying to depict is a world There is infrastructure, but no structure to keep it maintained. In this sense, without laws and without internet, etc, what would society look like? Three artists that really inspired me are Andy Warhol for his illuminating contrasting colors that I am interested in using in the piece. John Baldessari as well, I was reading an interview about professionalism taking over jobs instead of doing whatever you wanted to do. When I think of professionalism I think of the “society tells you to”concept. So that is where the idea came from. The last artist is Ed Ruscha because I love his graphic incorporations along with his paintings. In particulat I really like the painting Back of Hollywood because of the lonely concept without the structures of society being there. My other idea is, however, making the statement very obvious, but also realizing the professionalism in society is concept person created. It wasn’t like it was initially here when we came along; it was something that we created. I think I can side with this more because it
Over the last decades, the art world has become more and more professionalized. “I think art students’ expectations of what it means to be a professional artist are different nowadays. When I got started, the general idea was that you had a job to support yourself, and there was very little chance of ever selling anything.” “When I think about what’s changed, the thing that always pops into my mind is that some of my early text and photo pieces sold for about US$100 each when I first made them. A few years back, when one of the pieces sold at an auction for four-point-something million, I thought, I didn’t change, the world changed.” John Baldessari
