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My name is Sean Cazzell, 19 years old, currently a sophmore at Columbia College. I would like to transfer to SAIC and start the fall 2007 semester there. i have interests in a wide range of medium that a typical art school can't nourish. i want to come to SAIC so i will have the freedom of availability to all medium i wish to explore, including furthiering my esisting art training with painting, drawing art hiastory and photohrapgy. i have an interest in conceptual art for what it can communicatr that i believe painting cannot. I am fascninated more in the spectator's reaction to a work than the actual work it self. i feel the artist holds a great dela of power in his/her ability to alter and manipulate the emotions of an individual baced on what medium they use. with conceptual art i can apply different ideas of performance, sculpture, sound, video and installation into one to create an entire atmosphere where the viewers perception is under my control.
My art is full of personal symbolism, conflict and undeveloped charachters used to create a singular idea or emotion. i often the viewer only charachters without any sort of narrative device and utilizing just the relationshiop between the charachters and enviroment to create the ultimate feeling. conflict plays the most important role in my work: charachters are simplified greatly but still hold aspects of fine art, situations or charachters with a whimiscal nature combined with a form sexual perversion, relationships in class and gender struggle, and generalized concepts of good vs. bad taste. i love the relationships between things: the wya characters interact, the relationshop between social groups, the way one individual will react to another, all of these things have element si find extradorniary and interesting.
i am fascinated by the limits of art. i am obsessed with niave art and itl;s acceptance as a form of fine art. i wonder at what point does art become not art? what is the exact heirarchy of art? i question the power of culture to control art, culture affects people and art affectsrs people. once i understand the way people react to their world, with my art i can can create a world and control the viewers reaction.
my goals are to graduate SAIC with a BFA, continue to graduate school, and hopefully become a professional artist.
i often reference back to a handful of artists who strongly influence my work: Philip Guston, who i respect for redefining rules of abstraction and creating post-modernism in art. i feel his work utilizes concepts of high and low art and is a criticism of high culture. Jean-Michel Basquiat for his boldness in painting despite his lack classic art training or what's considered classic artistic talent. I love his work because of the estrnagement it possessed. Bruce nauman i respect greatly. i feel he represents a new mevement in art. i feel his work has meaning on countless levels and how he seems to perfectly understand how to use simplicity to communicate concepts.
My art is full of personal symbolism, conflict and undeveloped charachters used to create a singular idea or emotion. i often the viewer only charachters without any sort of narrative device and utilizing just the relationshiop between the charachters and enviroment to create the ultimate feeling. conflict plays the most important role in my work: charachters are simplified greatly but still hold aspects of fine art, situations or charachters with a whimiscal nature combined with a form sexual perversion, relationships in class and gender struggle, and generalized concepts of good vs. bad taste. i love the relationships between things: the wya characters interact, the relationshop between social groups, the way one individual will react to another, all of these things have element si find extradorniary and interesting.
i am fascinated by the limits of art. i am obsessed with niave art and itl;s acceptance as a form of fine art. i wonder at what point does art become not art? what is the exact heirarchy of art? i question the power of culture to control art, culture affects people and art affectsrs people. once i understand the way people react to their world, with my art i can can create a world and control the viewers reaction.
my goals are to graduate SAIC with a BFA, continue to graduate school, and hopefully become a professional artist.
i often reference back to a handful of artists who strongly influence my work: Philip Guston, who i respect for redefining rules of abstraction and creating post-modernism in art. i feel his work utilizes concepts of high and low art and is a criticism of high culture. Jean-Michel Basquiat for his boldness in painting despite his lack classic art training or what's considered classic artistic talent. I love his work because of the estrnagement it possessed. Bruce nauman i respect greatly. i feel he represents a new mevement in art. i feel his work has meaning on countless levels and how he seems to perfectly understand how to use simplicity to communicate concepts.