TALKING AND WRITING ABOUT YOUR ART
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Have you ever been caught out at a party
when someone asked you what you art is like?
Do you struggle with the artist statement on application forms?
Are you trying to add more words to your web site?
Patricia Frischer conducts a one hour workshop to help artist express themselves as an aid to marketing their artwork. This workshop can be arranged for a group or as an individual lesson by Patricia Frischer who is an active artist and has been an art dealer and art professor. Ms. Frischer also gives short training courses for Artist Agents. Contact her for more information on any of these subjects at [email protected] or by telephone (760) 943 0148.
Where do you need writing about your work
When did you first start creating art work?
What media do you use? Do you make it yourself or buy it? Is there a reason you choose that medium?
Do you start out with an idea of the end in mind?
What inspires your work?
When you conceive or set about executing a work of art, do you think you're guided mostly by a constant driving inner aesthetic? Or do you think you're in some significant way reacting to the world around you - to culture or the economy, say?
Do you think that you actually see the world differently than other people?
Does religion, or any sort of spiritual belief, play in the creation of your work?
Who would you say are your greatest influences? Or is there a particular historical period from which you draw inspiration?
What's your history of working in San Diego?
Does your work sell well in another geographical area? If so, why do you think that is?
Is it ever hard to part with a work?
Did you ever consider expressing yourself in other art forms?
What do you think art is really about today?
Do you have a favorite art work among your creations?
How do you know you've finished a particular art work? i.e. How do you know when to stop working on a piece?
When it comes right down to it, what do you like best about making art?
How can people see your art and buy it?
or
Start with a paragraph description of an art work you like best:
How did you get the idea for the piece?
Why did you choose that media to fabricate it?
What do you like most about it?
What does it remind you of?
What did you learn by doing this art work?
Did this work lead you to make another work?
Who bought or expressed a liking for the work and why do you think they bought or liked it?
or
Keep a diary - write up notes about the creation of your work and pull information from those notes.
or
Interview a good friend about your art work and steal the best bits.
Getting someone else to write for you
Finding writers -
Copyright © by Patricia Frischer.
Do you struggle with the artist statement on application forms?
Are you trying to add more words to your web site?
Patricia Frischer conducts a one hour workshop to help artist express themselves as an aid to marketing their artwork. This workshop can be arranged for a group or as an individual lesson by Patricia Frischer who is an active artist and has been an art dealer and art professor. Ms. Frischer also gives short training courses for Artist Agents. Contact her for more information on any of these subjects at [email protected] or by telephone (760) 943 0148.
Where do you need writing about your work
- artist statements for admissions to art organizations
- press releases
- introductions to exhibitions
- web sites
- catalogues and brochures
- titles for the works and price lists
- when you meet someone - the 10 word explanation
- when you are on the phone - the 20 word intro
- when you are being interviewed by press (radio, TV, printed word)
- on panel discussions
- to potential clients
- to art dealers and artist agents
- to other artists
When did you first start creating art work?
What media do you use? Do you make it yourself or buy it? Is there a reason you choose that medium?
Do you start out with an idea of the end in mind?
What inspires your work?
When you conceive or set about executing a work of art, do you think you're guided mostly by a constant driving inner aesthetic? Or do you think you're in some significant way reacting to the world around you - to culture or the economy, say?
Do you think that you actually see the world differently than other people?
Does religion, or any sort of spiritual belief, play in the creation of your work?
Who would you say are your greatest influences? Or is there a particular historical period from which you draw inspiration?
What's your history of working in San Diego?
Does your work sell well in another geographical area? If so, why do you think that is?
Is it ever hard to part with a work?
Did you ever consider expressing yourself in other art forms?
What do you think art is really about today?
Do you have a favorite art work among your creations?
How do you know you've finished a particular art work? i.e. How do you know when to stop working on a piece?
When it comes right down to it, what do you like best about making art?
How can people see your art and buy it?
or
Start with a paragraph description of an art work you like best:
How did you get the idea for the piece?
Why did you choose that media to fabricate it?
What do you like most about it?
What does it remind you of?
What did you learn by doing this art work?
Did this work lead you to make another work?
Who bought or expressed a liking for the work and why do you think they bought or liked it?
or
Keep a diary - write up notes about the creation of your work and pull information from those notes.
or
Interview a good friend about your art work and steal the best bits.
Getting someone else to write for you
Finding writers -
- looking in publications and seeing if you like what they write
- going to art history art departments for teaching and promising students
- finding writers you like of other subjects and asking them to write about art
- using applicable famous quote
Copyright © by Patricia Frischer.
