Art Theory BVA313

Art Theory BVA313

Question: 

• How do I to create a new family from the birth of a new identity through portraits? Can the connection of past background trauma effect the development of this new identity?

Processing trauma through artist making?

How do I portray a healing process of a childhood trauma through a visceral evisceration of organic forms?

pulling body apart and forming it again

how what when where why?

what does this have to do with this as it shows up in my art.

Out of these questions I am going to work on the highlighted text above. relating the question to the receivership of the organic forms of the painting.

Keywords:

Trauma - deeply distressing or disturbing experience during childhood, adult years etc...

 Theoretical text for Trauma...

• Empathetic Vision: Affect, Trauma, and Contemporary Art (Jill Bennett Stanford University Press, 2005 - Art - 188 pages) below...

Trauma and contemporary art... I came across this scholar texts by searing on google scholar and found that she talks about her curation of an exhibition only containing works from contemporary artist who deal with past trauma's through the use of art. Relating to topics of the memory of Trauma's in the past. She became aware that the works that was emerging from this were interesting with the emerging ideas that they have come from a traumatic background, along with how identifiable they are with different traumatic situations from child abandonment ,PTSD, Holocaust survivors to even worse situations etc... and how they artist dealt with it through the use of art and unlocking the memory of it. Bennett explains that most of the works relate to fantasy and fictional narratives creating a story from a new identity. Becoming what she calls a "Visual language" from the experiences of the trauma relating to the conflicts of loss and well-being.


Artist model for Trauma...


Ehren Tool.


An article from "The New York Times Magazines" written by By C. J. Chivers suggests that "Ehren Tool wants his visually brutal stoneware cups to start conversations about the grief and suffering of armed conflict. But his work can’t be bought." (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/magazine/ehren-tool-


Ehren Tool is a ceramics potter artist whose heavily influenced by his own services in the Marine Corps. Then leading into the real world of civilization he didn't know what he wanted to do and what the world is without the Marine Corps.



 Talks about the horrors of war that he has seen. 



• war-cups-smithsonian.html 
• • May 1, 2019) - giving the public the sign that hes putting his own emotions and feelings of his own past trauma's and experiences into his works.
  • Putting his feeling and emotions into his works reflects to my own work because a lot of my own influences are from my own traumatic stresses and backgrounds. To push my opinion and subject matter through. Giving me an emotional identity and making my own new identity with my own background.



He then took classes in pottery and ceramics and his influence and memory from the Marine Corps came into contact with his art. His subject ct and themes are politically based and puts his emotion and feeling of his traumatic stress and opinions into his art. 

Evisceration - To either disembowel or the re-movement of bodily parts - relation to the spillage of the organic forms I am creating with the molding and morphing of the different body parts of my work.

Visceral - relating to deep inward feelings rather than to the intellect. - Relation towards the feelings due to the traumatic stress from my own background and how, why, what and where it affects and affects my art and my practice.

Organic forms - Organic shapes are associated with things from the natural world, like plants and animals. - This in art terms is relating to my bodily forms, with the use of Ribs, Skin, and bones within the morphing and molding of the bodies.