HOW TO DISCUSS YOUR ART
Each of you has artistic strengths. Your challenge is to recognize YOUR artistic strengths and then draw your audience into an INTERESTING CONVERSATION about your art. Present your MEDIUM, PROCESS or SUBJECT using a vocabulary your audience can easily grasp and comment on.
REMEMBER: Conversation is the use of speech for an informal exchange of views, it is not a lecture. Speaking concisely encourages your audience or your college admissions interviewer to ask questions.
COMMON QUESTIONS ABOUT ART
Develop 2-4 sentence answers to the questions you feel most comfortable with.
- MEDIUM
- What is the medium demonstrated in your artwork?
- How did you choose the medium?
- Do you combine mediums? What comes first?
- What do you find challenging about the medium(s)?
- How does the medium compliment or contrast with the subject matter
- PROCESS
- What motivates you?
- Which comes first, the subject or the medium?
- Do you work from sketches or photographs? Why?
- Do you lay down a grid or draw spontaneously? Why?
- Do you work in stages and then come back to examine your progress? Why or why not?
- SUBJECT
- What inspires your subject matter?
- How do you choose your subject?
- Does your subject imply a message?
- Why is your artwork monochromatic or polychromatic?
- What scale do you work in? Why?
