Jay Alders - “As far as ART goes..it opened my world..”
Part Two
Jay talks to us about about his college experience and discovering artists like Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali.
“Solitude”
A: What did you do when you graduated from High school?
JA: I went to College @ Montclair State in NJ…studied Art..concentrated in illustration and photography
A: How was your experience at college?
JA: After the 1st year or 2 it got even better…adjusting took a bit of time..but overall it was awesome..loved it…miss it still sometimes
A: What did you love about it?
JA: As far as ART goes..it opened my world..not so much that I learned a lot from the teachers as a whole.but I loved how it showed me other ways of looking at things and art history, I have never been exposed to that really before…as far as socially..it opened up my world too..I was very very sheltered growing up.
A: You were sheltered growing up was this due to where you lived?
JA: nah.. I just didnt come out of my shell or realize I could until college
I had never been exposed to (or liked) abstract or other avante guard art forms…I never knew picasso or Henry moore’s work or giacometti’s scultpures…seeing that all and having a few good teachers helped my style evolved
A: Did you have a lot of freedom on your course to express yourself?
JA: Id say so..a lot of my teachers were awful artists (in my subjective view) but they exposed me to artists I never would have known about.
I studied for hours and hours and hours books on illustrators that I was into..and also artists like Dali, and all the old masters too. Dali was my biggest inspiration in college..also loved Larson’s Far Side
Sketch which became painting “Anxious Contentment”
A: What did you get from studying them?
JA: New techniques, ideas on composition and how to attack a canvas..Id analyze and pick apart everything about their pieces and try and shake it up and spit out something new.
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