Art Ideas for Inspiration: Responding to News Stories

Video Transcript

"Another place to start your creative fire might actually be your newspaper or the news on TV and the idea here is really not to illustrate it, not to draw it, you know if there's a fire not to draw a building on fire but to draw maybe what your response to that story is. If it was the building on fire it might be your fear of fire or it might be what happens afterwards you know the idea of ash or something. Andy Warhol worked a lot in the mid century and this is called Red Race Riot and this is his response to the race riots in the 1960's and he takes one image. He actually uses an image but because he prints it over and over again and he doesn't really worry about, it's not that he is not worried about it, he deliberately makes sure that it is not really the same image because sometimes it gets faded out and in this one you really see the dog, you don't really see the dog in this one. So you become aware in these different images of different parts of this race riot. The fact that it is on this sort of red background also is an emotional response to the idea of a race riot and what that means and what that means for Andy Warhol's person and what that means for the country. I mean it is sort of a drenched in blood kind of response so you know, the subject matter might be anywhere and it might be something that you never thought of as subject matter and it's as close as your newspaper."