After reading through a few artist statements, I found that each has its own uniqueness but none of each was taken out of context as to what the statement represents. One of my recent inspiration, photographer Martin Schoeller, wrote in an artist statement in which he clearly describes his work of art and the thought process behind it. As to many artist statement, one must clearly communicate with his or her audience, to elect a response, to provoke an emotion all of which is important to the works created.
There is an inspiration when reading an artist statement, it is something that tells the viewers what drives their creativity. In reading Mr. Schoeller’s statement, he mentioned that in 91, after seeing Bernd and Hilla Becher’s water tower series, that it had inspired him to photograph a large group of subjects in the exact same style. I love reading an artist’s inspiration because it tells me that as great as they are now, there was a guidance from someone that came before them that had the same ideas and creativity.
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