ario Hugo / Interview
Art is a personal and undefinable expression.
And It Was Left Void / 2007
Mario Hugo
Art
[v] - self expression - something that feels explorative Synonyms: Labor Antonyms: Sport
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Contibutor: Lucia Dickman
Michael Ozone / 2011
Cos/Mes / 2010
What is the difference between art and design?
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esign is a form of communication similar to a speech or conversation. Everyone has their own expressions, words, discussions, inflections, and arguments, but the ultimate goal of design is communication. Art can be self indulgent, and exist for the artist alone. I think, for example, dancing around like a jackass can be considered as an artful expression, but it is not necessarily communication. When someone commissions me, as a designer, certain constraints and boundaries are implied. I tend to feel that this commissioned work is no longer my personal artwork. That said, I'm happy to learn things, to allow both my art and design to inform one another, and commissioned work certainly still maintains echoes of my voice as an artist.
I'm struggling to find anything of interest, ha ha. What's nice about being influenced by visual stuff as a child is that there are sources of inspiration everywhere - comic books through the kerning in textbooks - as a kid or otherwise, there is always something to look at and study. I used to imitate artwork I found that interested me and I had some great teachers that pushed me to continue doodling in class as long as I was listening. I am grateful to my parents for having exposed me to museums, the ballet, travel - they had great taste. Trips to New York and the Metropolitan Museum of Art were my favorites as a kid. I live in New York now and still visit the Met a couple times a year.
Do you think graphic design is different in America than from the UK? How?
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ure, I think they are considerably different, but its certainly more difficult to isolate those differences today than it was ten years ago. On one hand, I worry a bit that things like blogs and the internet are homogenizing some of those beautiful differences that cultures and vernaculars contribute to design. On the other hand, I feel pretty eclectic and I don't identify creatively with any one spot on the globe. I think British design is cheeky, colorful, and irreverent - it is frequently beautiful and rarely treats itself too seriously. I think American design is a bit more passionate or expressive - like it is a touch more comfortable showing you a bit of its soul. I can absolutely find examples of the opposite, contradicting everything I have just said. I think we should make works that are able to express ourselves yet without defining a fixed style.
Anni Albers. But I am also infatuated with works of art that aren't exclusively visual "This American Life", "Calvin & Hobbes", films and books. To answer your question, there isn't any one thing that has changed me but many thousands of artworks, stories, and people that have.
Which is the best piece of your works that illustrated your definition of art?
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y favorite piece is a large drawing I made some time back for an exhibition I had in Barcelona. It was my first solo show and I took months off from commercial work. The piece is called “And It Was Left Void” - I scavenged for paper at the Strand bookstore for months and drew portraits of my brothers floating within a strange, fantasy typography. The piece was contextualized by other pieces at the exhibition - they were meant to speak to one another as you walked through the space. This piece is very personal to me - it feels like those occasional, intimate moments we have floating on our rock through the universe when we were kids. It was made with time and love - I couldn't ever part with it.
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. He founded a design firm in partnership with the artist Edward BurneJones, and the poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti which profoundly influenced the decoration of churches and houses into the early 20th century. He was also a major contributor to reviving traditional textile arts and methods of production, and one of the founders of the SPAB, now a statutory element in the preservation of historic buildings in the UK. Morris wrote and published poetry, fiction, and translations of ancient and medieval texts throughout his life. design.
Making Stuff Do you consider yourself an artist or designer?
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t's funny, but I prefer not to make those distinctions. Sometimes we spend a lot of time inside our own heads and it’s best not to start drawing lines and boundaries. I think sometimes I am making art, but sometimes not. All that matters is that I allow myself to continue making stuff. Let other people figure out which side of the fence that stuff lies on. In my opinion, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish a designer from an artist but I'm also not sure it is even worth the argument. It's more important to broaden our creative horizons and to explore new environments.
Are there any work you did or saw that have What were your main activities when you totally changed your aspects of art? How? been exposed to and influenced by so many were a child? things - naming these things always I'veamazing
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was a boring suburban kid - I played videogames, had a penchant for drawing and doodling in class, rode my bike and listened to music. Honestly,
seems like a discredit to those other thousands I can't name here. William Morris, the Arts and Crafts movement, the Wiener Werkstätte, Paul Klee, Bruno Munari, Ferdinand Hodler, Carvaggio, Josef and
Mario Hugo
Born in New Jersey, U.S.A. Mario is NY based artist, designer, and cofounder of creative consultancy and talent management agency Hugo & Marie. http://www.mariohugo.com/
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G L O S S A RY : A RT The definitions of art are changing from time to time. What is the meaning of art now? Art Glossary collected the definitions of art from people who has a different background, career and age. We are here to introduce the varieties of art definition to you.
Daimen Hirst
Luna Carilli
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Art at beginning is an adventure, then it become a bit boring. But it comes to be interesting again because it is more than money.
Art is an idea that has found its perfect visual expression. And design is the vehicle by which this expression is made possible. Art is a noun, and design is a noun and also a verb. Art is a product and design is a process. Design is the foundation of all the arts.
I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.
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Annalaura Masciavè / Italy Art is anything that can give us emotions able to lead our mind into the extra daily, wich can make us imagine of anything other than reality we live every day. Barbara Cortili / Italy Blending disparate amounts of creativity, beauty and emotion all together we can obtain that powerful,soul nourishing energy called Art.
Clara Suc / Hong Kong Destructive, Brain Power, enrichment, therapy, comprehensive expression. Christina Madry / United States Art is something inspired me. Dylan Kwok / Hong Kong See oneself from the deep inside 1st (not the audience or the money source. David Shields / United States Art is not truth; art is a lie that enabls us to recognize truth. Eliza Fox / Germany Destructive, Brain power, enrichment, therapy, comprehensive expressions. Edward Degas / France Art is not what you see, but what you make other see. Frida Kahlo / Mexico I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration. Garvey-George Harris / United Kingdom It makes me curious. It is an experience. Georges Braque / France Art disturbs, science reassures.
Henri Matisse / France What I dream of is an art of balance. Hyeon Jeong Ji / Korea Through art to know artist thought and experience.
Isa Wai / Hong Kong Art is Happy. Art is Subjective. Ivan Lee / Hong Kong Everything I don’t understand is Art.
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Janet liu / Hong Kong Art is an attitude of looking sideways. Jackson Pollock / United States The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. Kristian Kruse / Denmark Art is no boundary. Katerina Georgopoulou / Greek Touching the untouchable and communicate it to the world. Lio Yeung / Hong Kong Everything you think it is art, is art .
Mamiko Naito / Japan Art is a visual food for our soul. Mayu Ishiyama / Japan Ary is wonder.
Nikoletta Staikou / Greece For me art is the mutiny, the revolt, the total destruction of everything that destroys us! Nattapakan Apiwatmongkol / Thailand Art is nothing but everything, have to be wrong or short. Otl Aicher / Germany Good art inspires; Good design motivties.
Pablo Picasso / Spain We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies. Not defined yet.
Robert Surpateanu / Romania Where one expresses one true inner feelings! Richard Christopher / India Art is a catalyst to find answer of solution.
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Shirley Sheung / Hong Kong Art is life. Santiago Aparicio Velasquez / Colombia Art is expression of spiritual dimension.
Thomas Ng / Hong Kong See oneself from the deep inside 1st (not the audience or the money source.
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Xiaolei Liu / China Art is a powerful tool we use to understand and communicate with the world, with ourselves.
Yael Orkan / Israel Art is like colour to the blind, symphony to the deaf, it's a desire to explore beyond the unachievable. Y Lin / Taiwan Art is as sexy as science. Zhanel Sydykova / Kazakhstan Art is something that made at least one person to think beyond literal vision or piont of view, beyond usual thoughts.
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