100 Days Inspired By Artists
This is a selection of works from a 100 days practice in which I chose a new artist every day and created a digital work inspired by that artist. Making something every day was a great way to practice discipline and forgiveness since some days were better than others and none were subsequently revised. These were created using Javascript, CSS animations, or Cinema 4D. The full collection can be viewed at 100daysofmaking.xyz and EstherHersh.tumblr.com.
DAY 1- Alexander Calder
“Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion.”
Day 3- Jasper Johns
“you draw a straight line and it’s crooked and you draw another straight line on top of it and it’s crooked a different way and then you draw another one and eventually you have a very rich thing on your hands which is not a straight line. If you can do that then it seems to me you are doing more than most people. "
Day 5- Francis Bacon
“If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.”
Day 7- Louise Bourgeois
“I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands”
Day 12- Georgia O’keeffe
“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.”
Day 13- Tracey Emin
“The kind of work I do, you’re not going to lose yourself. You’re going to be digging yourself up.”
Day 14- Maurice Sendak
“I remember my own childhood vividly..I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn’t let adults know I knew. It would scare them”
Day 22- Chuck Close
“Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.”
Day 24-George Condo
“Listen, if you grow up in New England, you see an old fisherman on the pier very differently from Norman Rockwell, who sees him as a stereotype, which is patronizing and condescending. There’s no sympathetic equality involved. I absolutely feel there’s no intrinsic difference between people. Somebody might say, “George, you’re completely full of shit. Fishermen and bums don’t live in apartments on Madison Avenue or in expensive hotels.” But I say this … “Yes, they do …””
Day 27- Keith Haring
“I’d like to pretend that I’ve never seen anything, never read anything, never heard anything, and then make something.”
Day 30- Damien Hirst
“It’s ridiculous what I do. I can’t believe in it – but I have to.”
Day 37- Joan Miro
“The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness. “