Irreverent Art World Standardized Test
Below is a test I came up with, mostly for my own amusement.
Let me know what you think of it in the comments below, or make suggestions for new questions!
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Jay Gidwitz
The Online Art Portfolio of Jay Gidwitz
Creativity
Elephant Painting a Picture
Well, this doesn’t surprise me. It’s from the Telegraph newspaper, if you click the image it’ll take you to the site.
I think it’s genuine, and I’ve heard of elephants making art before.
If an elephant can paint a picture, anyone can paint a picture.
And it goes to my theory that we’re are all creative and that [...]
Jay Gidwitz Art Google Gadget
Here’s a “google gadget” with my art.
The picture changes every few minutes if the page is reloaded.
New images: the “Rachel’s Knife” series
These images were produced through and from the installation project “Rachel’s Knife,” which I created with David Harrington. We created the installation by using chance operations to choose objects to get from the free stuff section on Craig’s List.
After acquiring a room full of stuff the next stage was to decide what to do [...]
Writing
I was speaking to the Professor about the courses in the literary arts (creative writing) department at Brown University. He asked, “weren’t you majoring in literary arts?”
“I wanted to,” I said, “but I’d actually already finished all my writing requirements and the rest of the courses were in theory, which I’m less interested in. So [...]
Creating Automatic Drawings
What is an automatic drawing?
Automatic drawing was invented by Austin Osman Spare in the early 1900’s but the surrealists received the credit for it, according to most mainstream art historians.
Artists create automatic drawings by unconsciously drawing: they are not trying to do anything in particular; they watch the pencil in their hand moving on the [...]
