Beautiful Losers

I didn’t think I would like the film but it really surprised me I like the idea that they all came together through their love of art and design and making things. They believe that art is for everyone its not just for the rich and upper class people its for everyday ordinary people who are on there way to work or school who see graffiti and drawings on buildings and to them that it the best kind of art, its art that everyone will see and its not boxed up in a gallery somewhere and contained to only those who think they understand what art is and can be.
There view is similar to post modernists they take inspiration from everything and everywhere usually in the places no one else would think to go, they then turn it into something beautiful, another reason why I think they are similar to post modernists is because they believe art doesn’t depend on gender or race, I think that the constructivists where very much purists in there views and thought that’s what I don’t like about them.  These people have fun with what they do they experiment with new ways of creating beautiful new things and it looks fun.  They see graffiti as street art it’s a way of getting there names out there to people and in a way antagonizing people which makes them communicate and graffiti is communication for kids and its most likely the first kind of art form we ever see, people writing there names on walls, it’s a rebellion of what everyone assumes art to be.
“As a child your always drawing and making and its totally normal and when you become an adult you have to grow up and you lose it, you lose your creativity, artists are people who are lucky enough to never lose being a child.”  To me this is possibly the best quote I have ever come across because I can relate to it, as a child I was always drawing and makes things out of paper and bits I found around the house, and I never thought I would get the chance to do it when I got older, but I never stopped drawing in school books, or making things out of stuff I found in my school bag when I got bored during a lesson.

They understand that not everything you do is going to be perfect and its about learning from your mistakes and knowing that beauty is the imperfections you have on the page. They put themselves in there art you can see all of there personality in there work because for them it’s a way of life.

The majority of the people came from poorer families and this is why I think they like street art so much, because its where they started and that why they go back to it time and time, they feel themselves and they feel comfortable being out and meeting new people. Art has no rules and its what is so great about it, you don’t have to be smart to under stand art, and that is what brings people together, its takes down the social barriers and enables people to mix.

Watching this film has made me want to start drawing more and using my own illustrations in my work because I no they don’t have to be perfect and I want to start using photography again because I love capturing moments with my camera and I miss doing the things I love because I’m to busy thinking I must do something perfect.

Constructivists

Constructivists where trained in every field of art and design which I think is a good starting point as that way you are not limited in what you are doing as you has the basics learnt from photography to painting. just for the sake of it or to cause an argument, and this to me is one of the main reasons why I don’t like much of the work from constructivists with the exception of Rodchenko. I think the reason I like his work is because I like photography and I like how he has played around with the angle of his work and it is not always direct, sometimes its birds eye. I also like how he uses the strong geometric pattern to draw the eye in. I also like how the image is black and white, its looks clean and crisp, it also has a clear focal point. I don’t use photography as much as I would like to but in the future I would love to do a brief on photography and would defiantly look at Rodchenko for inspiration.

Lissitsky uses bold colours in his work which I do like however I don’t like his work, to me its confusing and has no meaning. It is very simple and has clean lines which is another thing I like but it doesn’t make up for the fact that I think its rather boring and has no appeal to me and looks like it has been created.