Art is a representation that encompasses a diverse media such as painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and installation. It allows the human brain to interpret complex ideas and transform them with easier, more creative understanding in visual format. Design, on the other hand, is the process of envisioning, the planning and the execution of the raw and the mundane that we always put up with everything that we do.
Nowadays, the concepts of art and design are everywhere. We can see a lot of people interpreting and portraying it through their fashion sense and core, in movies and films that we watch, the things we get to see everything, and the things we do.
Aside from those, we can truly appreciate arts and design in general by looking at history, by watching first-hand experiences and real-life stories.
If you’re currently scrolling YouTube and want an in-depth reality about the world of arts and design, check these underrated documentaries and pick which resonates:
WHY BEAUTY MATTERS – Roger Scruton
Roger Scruton discusses the success of his documentary “Why Beauty Matters,” how the BBC tried to suppress it, and the impact it has had on artists.
Roger Scruton’s viewpoint is that beauty is a real and universal value, one anchored in our rational nature, and that the sense of beauty has an indispensable part to play in shaping the human world.
THE CASE OF ABSTRACTION – The Art Of Assignments
“How are we supposed to deal with art completely removed from recognizable objects? And why should we?”
For much of human history, people made art by trying to represent the world as it appeared around them. Things from wherever it is can look abstract and we should know and interpret it—all of those abstractions are representations from histories all over the world.
WHAT IS AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE?
In here, we have some opinions about the limitations and the definition of what truly means to be ‘aesthetic’. Not in the sense that aesthetic has restrictions—but on how it shapes us, our ideas, and personalities in regular shapes and views.
MAMMA ANDERSSON INTERVIEW – Painting As Weapons
The interview gives a thorough insight into Mamma Andersson’s way of working with figurative painting, which she describes as “treading on slippery ice: to work figuratively without coming off as pathetic is extremely difficult.”
In this video, she also takes her viewers on a tour of her studio and her extensive library of books and images that inspire her paintings.
Mamma Andersson is one of Sweden’s most internationally acknowledged artists. Her expressive compositions are inspired by filmic imagery, theatre sets and private interiors. She is represented by Gallery Magnus Karlsson in Stockholm, and by David Zwirner Gallery in New York.
THE RULES OF ABSTRACTION – Matthew Collings
Sometimes, we view art and do not understand and interpret it like most people do that’s why artists and critics give us insights on how to or how we can fuel and set our minds on to that. Rules of Abstraction covers the rise of abstract art over the last century.
Matthew Collings dives into the questions of how we respond to abstract art when we see it. His friendly-yet-probing interview style of living artists establishes that their work always has a firm rationale. And we know that there are rules to abstraction that we may never have known for the longest time or how they just existed there.
