Finding Your Creative Voice through Collage
The Journey
A course by Hanoch Piven , Mixed Media Artist
About the video: The Journey
Overview
“I could tell you about my influences citing (as most illustrators in my generation) Mad Magazine or several other publications and creators from the 70’s, but I feel that a better way to understand where I come is for you to hear a defining story. The story of how I developed this personal language of creation. It is a story of discovery through frustration and of obstacles that ended up being blessings. What is interesting is that the same journey that I went through to discover and distill my individual voice - with all its struggles and frustrations - is very similar to what I encounter every time I sit down to make a new portrait. Creativity happens when you trust the process - If you keep stirring things up - SOMETHING will happen, and if you are present and paying attention you will be there to catch it. If you are indeed looking for specific references of artists I was looking at during this period, I should mention Tomi Ungerer, Sandy Skoglund, Andres François and David Levine among others. You can find out more about them below. ”
In this video lesson Hanoch Piven addresses the topic: The Journey, which is part of the Domestika online course: Finding Your Creative Voice through Collage. Discover a playful process to unleash and expand your creativity through the creation of portraits.
Partial transcription of the video
“THE JOURNEY In this lesson I would love to share with you my journey and my influences. I was born in Uruguay and I grew up with lots of comics and cartoons, but they are very specific to that area. A big influence since I was a kid is the work of Quino and his very famous character: Mafalda. At home we also had very famous Argentinian comics, like "Patoruzú", "Isidoro", "Isidorito", "Anteojito", that only if you are South American you will know what I'm talking about. And I think my first caricature is my fourth grade teacher, who you can appreciate here. I don't think I knew how to draw e...”
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Course summary for: Finding Your Creative Voice through Collage
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Category
Craft, Illustration -
Areas
Arts & Crafts, Collage, Creating with Kids
Hanoch Piven
A course by Hanoch Piven
Hanoch Piven is an award-winning illustrator, educator, and seasoned creative instigator. Piven’s artwork is unique in both form and method. By reinventing the meaning and use of everyday objects he forges associations between these and the subject of his creation.
Piven's art is playful, inclusive, and transformative. Since 1992, Piven's work has been published in newspapers and magazines across the world, such as Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, London Times, Der Spiegel, and Israel's Haaretz. Piven is also the author of a series of award-winning children's books and apps, TV shows, interactive exhibitions, and advertising campaigns.
Piven has lectured extensively on creativity and its applications to life in diverse platforms across the world. Amongst them are The Kennedy School of Government at Harvard Business School, Teach for All Global Conference, Duke University, The School of Visual Arts, China Academy of Fine Arts, Art Center of Design, Instituto Europeo di Design, and many more.
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