How to Write About Yourself and Your Art
The goal is to describe your work quickly, succinctly, and clearly:
- Set the tone to view your art work and make the viewer want to explore more
- Make a point, be specific to your exhibited work
- Keep sentences short and simple
- Use the active sentence form
- Engage the senses; what do you want your audience to experience?
- Expose your soul and mind, describe how your disability influences the art you create
- Include your name at the top of your statement
Common mistakes to avoid:
- Avoid making the statement too long
- Do not simply list what you like
- Use natural language--write as you would talk
Ideas for content:
- Your approach to working
- Describe your technique
- Your philosophy as it is expressed in your art
- Meaning of your work
- Symbols, metaphors, analogies
- Themes and underlying issues
- Mini history of you and/or your work
- Major life experiences which have influenced your art
- What are your worldviews, your general conception of the nature of the world?
- Ethics, articulate values; what values do you hold dear?
- Aesthetics, tell us about beauty, ugliness and how well and appropriate things fit together
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