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as artists we try to challenge our audience-what sort of things do people do, their own unique styles , and how do they try to challenge people?

I'm talking about trying to Challenge your Audience with what they see, do you try to realte to them or engage them? Have you seen anyone do that (eg Tony Ousler)

My art is abstract, and so I challenge my audience because I like to think that each of them has a different view on what my art is actually showing. Some people think it's absolute rubbish because it doesn't DEPICT any actual solid object, it's just about paint marks and splatters and colours. But the challenge is to actually understand what it's about. For instance, my last big major art project was based on rock music, and I painted whilst listening to the music. I threw and splattered and dripped paint onto the canvas in different ways and using colours which I felt related to the song, but without hearing that song you wouldn't understand what I was trying to depict.
The challenge of that piece for ME was to make something which was HEARD into something which could be SEEN. For the audience the challenge was to listen to the song and understand how the paint marks related to the sounds.

yes, Jackson Pollock was the artist I did research on and was inspired by, along with Wassily Kandinsky.

researching artists usually end up giving me a headache.....

good job you don't do a degree or A levels in England..all your work is based upon your interpretation of the research into another artist. you have to based your work on theirs.

haha xp
I've found that it's helped me use different techniques and styles and mediums that I wouldn't have used before. I'm alot more adventurous with my art and I really like to make challenges and base my art on debatable topics 3nodding before I just used to draw my favourite characters and stuff like that... sweatdrop