Robert Adams Research Paper

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Robert Adams was the artist most concerned with the creativity of his work. His work is mainly photography. In his own words, he says he likes to photograph what is glorious and truthful. He captured this idea by photographing the constantly changing surface of the sea. The sea is something so disturbing and peaceful that Adams feels as though he’s surrendering himself to it. Adams wished to capture things in a way that was perfectly balanced. This sort of creativity is something not often found in other artists. Another artist concerned with creativity is Ai Weiwei. He believed that art should be for everyone. His works generally attracts various kinds of people. One of his students claims that a housewife spoke to him about her suggestions for his next project. While a housewife (in this culture) is not someone who would predominantly be found in an art gallery, WeiWei wanted a wide variety of people to be involved with his art, including housewives. His students stated that he always wanted them to be learning about something new. He also allowed them to have a lot of freedom, he wants them to be creative when working with his projects rather than limited to his…show more content…
The two believe that certain materials can speak of their own usage and have a practical function, while having a symbolic dimension that an ordinary material has. The material that they chose to use is chalk. They perceive chalk as an ideological tool that is commonly found in the classroom, but is also found naturally– in the earth. Which makes it naturally fragile. They placed very large pieces of chalk near the governmental buildings of Peru so that protesters could write “big words”, literally or symbolically, as a way of publicly voicing their demands. While they used very simple materials for this piece, a lot of thought was put into the decision and the outcome of the piece would not be the same without

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