Collaboration
An artist collaboration takes place when two or more artists work together on a project or art piece. Collaborations in the art world are popular as they are great ways at pushing your usual techniques out of your comfort zone and creating something unpredictable, it is also a good way to promote your career. Your partner/s will likely have different opinions ands backgrounds to you which will weave into your styles and work, creating something otherwise impossible.
An example of an artistic collaboration is Picasso and Gjon Mili’s light painting 1949 photo series. The photographer captured innovative images of the master painter drawing in air with a small light bulb, unpredictable drawings were born. Both of the artists voices are very prominent, the light and slow shutter speed images blend beautifully with the abstract designs creating a dynamic series of work that the pair could not have achieved with out the other.
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Audience – updated on blog
The audience of an artwork are those who consume it, they are important as they decide what the world thinks of your work. Someone may say a Van Gough is beautiful without ever setting eyes upon one, this is because the audience has reacted to and established his work, creating a brand, hence why the audience is so important. You can not know if something is beautiful until you look at or interact with it, it is simply impossible, therefore it is the audience that makes art beautiful as with out them it would not exist, even if the only viewer is the artist themselves.