We were given another copy of the proposal form today (Study Task 2), and I found it difficult to be precise at this point. I ended up drawing a mind map to note down different threads of ideas. This is what it looked like:
Potential question?: The people's art and how it relates to visual art having a purpose
The meaning in visual art section is a new addition, after reading this article by Lawrence Zeegen. It was really interesting, and could link my work to contemporary practice seeing as the folk art I am interested in is historical.
I'll probably analyse the ideas in this article in more depth at a later date, but essentially Zeegen argues that the field of illustration has became surface-level, and self-indulgent ('More focused on the creation of artefacts...').
I think that folk art is the opposite of this. It's full of meanings and symbols and stories and messages, relating to its makers and the communities or regions it derives from. This could also lead me on to looking at communication (visually) through symbols and pictograms, and what they could represent.
Other things to maybe look at:
• selftaughtgenius.org (Tampa Museum of Art)
• Art Brut in America: The Incursion of Jean Dubuffet
• V&A
• Folk art / crafts in the British Isles? (Shetlands, Fair Isle...)
• Marie Lieb, Heinrich Anton MΓΌller
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