Aelita Andre

[dominitus]

This is the first I've heard of artist Aelita Andre. A video of her is currently trending on YouTube, which is how I came across her. It depicts her at work in her studio:

It goes for about 14 minutes - I didn't bother to watch it all, I watched the first few minutes then skipped through it. It is the height of indulgent wank, regardless of the

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[ms_muppet]

But what if the artist didn't intend to portray a particular message/emotion in the first place? As much as artists have to put down a "this is what my practice is about" statement at exhibitions etc, a lot of people I know start simply with an idea or an image in their minds and work from there. I remember taking my photography folio down to a history and theory of photography class, only to have all the would-be art historians going aaaaah I see what you're doing here/what you're commenting on/portraying. And inside my head I was thinking, yeeessssss.....erm, really, I just wanted to create an image like x/y/z

[ms_muppet]

Oh totally. I definitely approached my photography folios with an idea in mind, if only an atmosphere or an image or an indefinable feeling that I wanted to recreate. I guess what I was saying was that an artist's purpose or ideas behind their work is often (and this is not a bad thing!) extremely different from those perceived by the audience. And because of that, I can't see how you can judge the merit of a piece of work based on the intentions of the artist.

[anfalicious]

There is a depth of texture and a use of colour in her work that is beyond random noise, but I like abstract art, and I especially like painting that works with texture as well as colour.