Visiting Artist Jean-Pierre Hebert
posted by Lee Arnold @ 12:24 PM
Pratt Institute: Digital Arts in Context
This course provides an overview of the development of computer graphics in both design and fine arts. Topics include: evolution of the field; development of CG disciplines; impact of technology; pioneers and leading figures in electronic art and design; the CG community; contemporary works in computer graphics.
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This is one of the first artist's lectures that I truly enjoyed. I felt bad that I had to leave early for my next class. Either way, the success of an artist, in my opinion, is how much does what you do drive your life instead of your life driving your work. In the case of Jean-Pierre Herbert, here is a man that takes his time. When he finds something interesting, he thinks about it not for an hour but maybe ten or twenty years. Jeans-Pierre has a fascination with drawing and what drives lines and movement.
In the sand and marble drawings, there was an evolution, a combination of science and methodology. I loved watching the animation of the marble rising out of the sand, creating a very specific design. It had a calming effect and also conveyed the sense of the infinite. I think that those two qualities are made to look easy when are actually the contrary.
I would also like to point out that obviously Jean-Pierre has a thick accent. In past presentations this has had a negative affect on the lecture, but in this case, I found myself trying very hard to understand him instead of sitting back and zoning out. What a difference can be made when a guest lecturer has a little bit of enthusiasm!
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I think for me Jean-Pierre stood out the most out of all the guest lecturers we had this semester. I don't know, there was just something about him that made me want to lift my head up and see what he had to say. Maybe it was his calm nature, or the way he showed child-like enthusiasm about his art and art in general, a thing I think we share. He was one of those people who are fascinated by the little things most of us usually tend to desregard as a part of our reality. Jean Pierre is all about that. Time, grains of sands, arcs. And when he draws, passion and eagerness are replaced by easiness, fascination, order, and understanding. I agree that he may not "qualify" as a true digital artist in the sense that he doesn't use maya or most of photoshop's object manipulation abilities, but he's all about fractals, which pretty much belong to the digital age if u ask me...
A refreshing, truely innovative approach to line and form.
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