WorkShop 1

Assignment 1 - Group Research Essay
During this workshop our group size increased. There were more people in the class and some didn’t want to work together so our group ended up being group of six.

Essay questions:-
1. Marcel Duchmap said: "The creative act is not performed by the artist alone." Do you think art is a dialogue?

2. Pablo Picasso said: "They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better." What does he mean and do you agree?

3. Discuss the statement "All Art has an implicit narrative".

As a group of six we decided to write the essay on statement number 2.
First thing was to understand what Picasso meant by his saying? As to my understanding he said that painters would be able to paint better if they were blind. He used goldfinches as an example, as in olden days people used to blind goldfinches so they could only sing and not fly away or be distracted by anything else.

One reason I wanted to choose question no.2 was because Picasso is a known artist and discussing something he has said cannot be as hard as there must be a lot material for my entire group member to look at.

Being in a group of six but only four present on the day, we all divided the work between us. Two of us decided to work on blind artist and two decided to work on artist with eye sight.

I am working on artist with eye sight. I don’t agree to Picasso’s saying. Though I do understand that blind people have sharp senses and are capable of doing quality work but I don’t agree that blind person’s work could be better than the work of a person with eye sight.

I thought it would be nice to have Picasso as my artist to research on and compare his paintings with blind artist’s painting. I’ll also try to find out whether Picasso himself did any painting being blind folded or not.

I’m planning to go to museum and take some pictures and get information about his work.