Our professor Sarah, Emmy and Nadja would critic our work in group critiques with our whole class. You stand up in front of the whole class and talk about your work and then people comment on it and give you suggestions and things. I was very worried about mine, but it went really well. Nadja and Emmy think I should keep going with a more abstract style of painting I developed a few days before the critiques, as they think that it's very strong. They also liked the contrast between my landscapes and monster paintings. Overall, the critic went rather well and the whole experience really boosted my confidence in my work. Especially after our mid-term critics where I didn't feel as strongly afterwards.
After the second day of Critics, we went to the American design and printing studio, called the Fuji Studio. Multiple American students have classes there and it's all about printing and fabric and jewelry design. They had an art show, so we went to see their work. I had a good long talk with Nadja, while we hovered over the buffet table. She gave me a lot of good advice on what I should do after Florence. Our guest critics were very approachable and they were all OCAD students at some point. The fact we could talk to them openly about issues and concerns was a boon, as they gave us an outside opinion on being artists and surviving in the art world.
Friday night, we had an art show with our work from the critiques. We cleaned the studio up, shoved all the furniture upstairs and bought a ton of food and wine. We didn't have a great showing of people. Most of the folks who showed up were really creepy. We even had one (obviously) drunk fellow arrive who immediately started trying to touch my female colleagues. The whole event ended up being more of a way for us to socialize with each other, now that the semester was over.
Thursday was our Art history exam. We had a review the day before, which essentially covered everything on the test. I didn't know slide dates very well, but I felt like I knew pretty much everything else. Dates was not a very large part of the test, so I feel strongly about my performance. We also handed in our art history essays the same day. I wrote my essay on the contrast between progressive and repressive painters in the early renaissance.
The weather has been warm, but also it's been raining pretty much every day for the last half a week. Not the best, but from what I gather the winter is a rather wet time of year. At least it still hasn’t dropped below 10 during the day and it actually feels like it’s getting warmer sometimes.
Saturday, I went to the Florence Biennale with a friend. The artwork in the exhibit was pretty lackluster at best. There was some fantastic works, but Sturgeons law seems to be holding true in the contemporary art world.
I have uploaded my artwork to my G+ account, so check it out here.
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