Sean Meng-Looking Outwards-09

In this week’s Looking Outwards, I was interested in my classmate Fanjie Jin’s post about the randomness in art. The artist he researched is Cy Twombly. He creates large scale free handed calligraphy work using paint. According to the post, the artist creates his art pieces by completely relying on his intuitive feelings about composition, shape and colors. It brings up an interesting discussion about what is random and what is not in art. Even though the artist catches his intuitive stroke to create the paintings, he still maintain some degrees of control in his work since it was his hand and mind that determine the final work. I think what random about art is the artist come up with a methodology or workflow of creating and then he loses his control of his own workflow and let the invention does its own work without being affected by the artist himself.