Beatrice Wood was an important contemporary artist, craftsperson and writer. Her life ran the course of the 20th century and included many of the figures that shaped it. Ultimately, her genius was in the marriage of wide-ranging influences in her work. The spirit of Dadaism, impact of Modernism, embrace of Eastern philosophy, influence of folk art and even the ornament of ethnic jewelry were all combined in her ceramics. Her work reveals a mastery of form, combined with a preference for the naïveté of folk art.
Ultimately, it is impossible to separate her life experiences from the work she created, as she truly mastered the art of a life." ~Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts Respond to this: Last summer my kids and I went to a beautiful place called Nice, France, on the coastline. The ocean was brilliant blue, but instead of sand under our feet, there were nothing but millions of small pebbles, all smoothed from many years of tumbling in the waves, but still hard, hot and bumpy to walk on. While they were smooth, we were not used to walking barefoot on pebbles in order to get to the water! It was different, and a bit painful, because they were bumpy and hot under our feet. But when we got to the ocean it was worth it! The cool water was refreshing and we forgot all about those irritating pebbles along the way. We could have stopped, and turned around, avoiding the pebbles all together, but the ocean was well worth walking through the the pebbles to get there. Through mistakes.....we learn, and progress to the next level, in the process we discover something about ourselves or our art that we didn't know before. Many times, a wonderful and unexpected reward awaits you, after the hardship of trial and error occur. We learn by doing. We lose out when we avoid hardship many times. Answer this: How does fear prevent you from revealing or discovering your true style and identity? What holds you back artistically? What are some ways you can move past those obstacles in order to grow as an artist? Respond by Sept. 23rd for full credit.
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Lindsi Ashley
9/16/2016 03:24:31 pm
Fear prevents me from being able to express myself because I think that my ideas aren't unique enough. I fear bad judgement when it comes to designing and building my pieces. Fear makes me sometimes believe that my pieces need to be absolutely perfect. Judgement holds me back artistically. For me to grow as an artist, I think that I need to accept that not all of my pieces will be perfect and that I need to stop caring so much about what others think of my pieces. When I read the text by Beatrice Wood, I view it as she got out of her comfort zone (walking on hot pebbles barefoot) and once she did that, it was totally worth it in the end and once you achieve that goal you have set, you forget about all of the troubles it took you to get there because you have achieved the goal.
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Brittany Gonzalez
9/21/2016 06:09:18 am
I know I suffer from this personally. Now a days people are so concerned with what other people think and they really shouldn't because who cares. At the end of the day as long as you are happy then who cares what other people think they aren't you. Growing up I was always so worried about what people would say or think about me and I shouldn't have. Now I know that my happieness is what matters not what others think.
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Aianna Orta
9/27/2016 06:26:24 am
I agree with you Brittany. I and speak from experience. I always care what others think of me and my work. Which I shouldn't because other people's opinions don't really matter as long as your happy that's what really matter.
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Taylor Kenyon
9/21/2016 04:07:54 pm
My biggest fear that holds me back artistically and from discovering who I am as an artist is caring about the opinion of others. I am constantly worrying about what other people think of me, not only artistically, but in every day life. I think another one of my fears as an artist is failure. Some times I don't try new things because I think that I will not be good enough and fail. Some ways that I can overcome these fears is to step out of my comfort zone and to be proud of myself.
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Megan Obranovich
9/21/2016 06:34:16 pm
My fear artistically is caring to much about what other people think of my work. I want things to be perfect. I also don't want to mess up or fail at what i'm working on. I get nervous when it comes to trying new things or doing something more difficult then what I think I can do because I don't want to have do it over or mess it up either. I'm going to try and step out and push myself to try harder and newer things.
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Caitlin Cary
9/22/2016 12:30:56 pm
Fear prevents me from revealing my true style and identity because it stops me from challenging myself. I think that the opinions of others and failure is what holds me back artistically. I can move past the feeling of being judged by realizing that everyone else struggles with this as well. I have also learned that failure allows me to become successful by learning from my mistakes. For example, last year I tried to throw a plate on the wheel. It took many trial and errors before I figured out what works for me. Time is another factor that prevents from growing artistically. I struggle with not having enough time or getting frustrated and bored if the project takes a long time.
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Riley Jones
9/23/2016 07:28:34 am
I think fear makes you doubt yourself and not use your full potential. My fear is that I won't be able to pull off the ideas that I have. I usually come up with some pretty cool ideas, but they always seem to far fetched for my abilities. I believe to overcome this, I just need to go for it and try to do, what sometimes seems to me, the impossible.
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Stephanie Montero
9/23/2016 07:38:14 am
Fear prevents me for expressing my true self because I am always concerned about what others think and feel about me. Fear holds me back from finding my creativity in pottery. Some ways I can overcome this fear is to not worry about what others think and feel about me or my work.
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Katy brant
9/23/2016 11:57:25 am
My biggest fear artistically is thinking about what other people think more than what I think. These days people judge very hardly and they are sometimes very harsh about it. My biggest fear is thinking my art is gorgeous and someone saying it looks horrible, this restricts my creativity a lot. I try to make what other people think is artistic instead of what I think is, this makes me feel stressed and sometimes makes me run over into another project timeline.
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Faith Williams
9/23/2016 06:42:06 pm
My fear is not being able to pull off what i design. its a failure to me and people view it as you not being good enough or capable of doing that. it limits my ideas because i dont want to do anythhing too hard or something i dont believe im capable of doing but what i should do is challenge myself and work through my problems to create much more interesting, difficult and challenging pieces.
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Oscar Guerrero
9/25/2016 03:36:22 pm
I think that fear prevents you from trying something new or expressing yourself through your art cause you may be judged by it. What holds me back artistically is the stress of having to finish something on time because if i had more time i would be able to make a better looking piece of art. I can learn by working more efficiently and not waste time in class and this will help me overcome that obstacle.
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Ashlee mock
9/26/2016 01:08:21 pm
Fear holds me back from creating pieces that are more difficult than I feel I can achieve. I need to push past this because I will not grow as an artist if I don't experiment with difficult techniques and styles. The fear that people will dislike my work is also something that I need to overcome so that my art isn't safe or boring.
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Karis Carlton
9/26/2016 08:26:15 pm
I would say that fear holds me back from my full potiential. I am always scared that I will mess up a piece of my work if I try to go big or try something new. Sometimes when we mess up, beautiful things come out of it. I think time limits and dead lines hold me back artistically. I want to make a good grade in the class, but also produce really incredible pieces. One way I could overcome my obstacle of not wanting to mess up, would be purposefully doing something strange or different to my piece and making it work. This would teach me how to not only fix things, but how to make mistakes beautiful.
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Sidney
9/27/2016 05:25:35 am
I feel like fear prevents me from really expressing myself because if I'm throwing on the wheel and I have a good piece but I could do more and I just stop because I done want to ruin it. I feel like if I had more confidence I could continue with that piece and do some really cool stuff. I also feel like positive encouragement really helps me cope with my fear it like boosted my confidence and makes my work look better
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Christine Riley
10/14/2016 05:44:37 am
The thing that holds me back from doing what i want is my mind set. I never think im good enough to do it in my head or it looks to difficult. But the only way to get past that is to try it and hopefully prove myself wrong and the artwork actual come out looking good.
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