Lecture by Andrew Norris - Represent

        Working with fine art comes characteristics that make the work "aesthetically pleasing" and are "high art" or "significant art." The idea of fine art was one of few that stuck to me during the talk as Andrew Norris mentioned that while working on some "fine art" pieces, his professor would become frustrated due to the "uniqueness" of his work that his professor might not have seen as fine art. I found this fascinating, the confliction of ideas in what is considered "fine art" and what isn’t. The work he displayed during the talk is his honest work. It is influenced by photographs taken by photographer’s and classic landscape paintings, but it is his own ideas, honesty, and self reflected onto paintings. Most of his influence also taken from post-graduation and his own struggles that followed. What is more impressive is how young he is as an artist and how much ground he has gained from just these works.

        What draws me to him as an artist is how open and person he gets with his work, especially with the works displaying poppies and other species of flowers that may follow. Another idea that stood out to me was how the photographers and their work he used made them feel an appreciation, a close connection, and seeing their work be an influence to someone else. As Norris mentioned, the photographer’s work is usually always used and rarely is there any sense of there being one. However, the way he talked about it really made me appreciate this more about a photographer’s work and their presence behind the photograph influencing other art forms, in this case oil paintings. I enjoyed the artist talk and having this close, personal, honest, and open connection to my own work as Norris has with his (which I feel I already do).