| Autism and art
Posted: 12/17/2007 9:21:42 AM | as an autistic artist i use my disabillaty as a source for my work and express it in string wire sculptures covered in paint and glue and paintings full of lively marks all of which shows movement and a sense of emotions i felt while creating it. what i like to know is should there be more people like me expressing themselves and would it effect you on understanding people with autism? and i would like to know is does an autistic persons feelings have anything in common to your own feelings and beliefs?
if you were wondering what my work is like and want to see them, im affraid i have no website to show them at the moment as i have no knowledge on how to. so if you want to help me contact me and ill see what we can do | |
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| Autism and art
Posted: 12/19/2007 1:37:42 AM | Yes, more people should express themselves artistically. Not sure about the understaning people with autism. My limited understanding of people with autism is that their brain functions differently. am I correct?
And as far as feelings and beliefs go, IMHO everybody has them. And since there are only so many different feelings and beliefs, yes, you share some of the same feelings and beliefs as somebody without autism.
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| Autism and art
Posted: 4/25/2008 9:56:02 PM | | Art is a great channel for thoughts that cannot be spoken and emotions that cannot be expressed: for autistic people is like talking and feeling, I would guess. | |
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Posted: 4/29/2008 11:43:00 AM | | Numan had Asperger's now where's the sonic repition,from extrovertancy, or repetition of inverted thought,not quite there u say? | |
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| Autism and art
Posted: 4/29/2008 3:55:56 PM | | To the OP - I tried to message you but cant as I am a smoker. But I was going to say in my PM, that if youre after a website to promote your art (and make money from it) I have a very good friend of mine who can do a website for you. If youre interested drop me a PM and I'll give you his details. :) | |
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| Autism and art
Posted: 4/29/2008 10:08:21 PM | Artists are very special individuals in general. We often live in a world of chaos, and tend to communicate differently than non-artists. We're emotional, passionate and need to be creative in everything that we do. A lot of artists have emotional, mental or physical disabilities - many suffer from depression and use art as therapy - so you are not alone in this.
Art is a form of communication. Many songwriters use lyrics as a form of communication when unable to send a message to someone they know. Art is therapeutic in many ways and is a good outlet for your emotions. When you lose the ability to communicate physically, you find creative ways to express yourself through art - whether it be photography, ditigal art, creative writing, painting or sketching. Creating art, can be a spiritual experience for many which is why I see it as a form of communication. Take a look at our ancestors from over 30,000 years ago. (This I take from my theology studies). Cave paintings were created to tell stories of tribes and leaders. These cave paintings still exist in many countries today and still act as a form of communication from our ancestors leaving powerful messages.
For cheap advertising, try sites like Photo Bucket or Flickr, Myspace or Facebook. You can create artist pages for free. All you need to do is photograph or scan your artwork into the computer, and post them online. You may want to copyright and make sure your artwork is signed and dated. You may want to create a logo to put on your artwork to copyright protect it as well. I also suggest contacting your local Autism group - I suspect you are not the only artist in your area with autism.
Good luck to you. | |
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| Autism and art
Posted: 4/30/2008 2:23:20 AM | wow, awesome. i think it's awesome that authentic art is produced by authentic people (regardless of what type of mental illness they've been labeled with). we live in a society that has to label, and then systematically destroy anything the majority don't understand, so it's people like you that deserve to be heard/seen/experienced.
i've been known by friends to place a lot of importance on madness in art, but from my limited understanding of the world, a lot, if not most of our greatest artists/thinkers would be labeled with some sort of autism these days, and then obviously medicated to some extent. i find that incredibly sad, especially as if it continues, the generations to come will probably know nothing of authentic expression, thought, or art.
there's an amazing video a friend showed me a little while ago that does a lot to pull the autistic mindset out of the freakshow where we've conveniently placed it.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JnylM1hI2jc
anyways, keep doing what you're doing, and don't let anyone stand in your way, cause you know what? f**k em for trying to kill your spirit. | |
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| Autism and art
Posted: 4/30/2008 9:50:19 PM | I use http://www.deviantart.com to post my art, its a great site with easy functionality and has a huuuge group of talented artists there and groups you can join who share you passions. They give you a page with a link starting with your username (mine is cokeglass.deviantart.com because of my caffeine addiction :P) Its free, though if you subscribe you get extra little things like the ability to see recent visitor and the like. Its a great place to find inspiration and connect with people and learn new things and share your knowledge as well. All you need is to snap a few pictures of your art and upload them.
Hope this helps :)
And to your question, I'm not sure if I would gain an understanding of autism from viewing art, but an autistic artist could very well showcase his art and lead to a greater awareness of autism and lead people to find out more about autism through research and of course talking to the artists themselves!
"should there be more people like me expressing themselves" ??
Of course! Everyone should express themselves, and art and artistic means is a great way to do it! :)
Troy | |
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| Autism and art
Posted: 5/2/2008 4:36:37 AM | OP -
I think everyone should express themselves more irrespective of what labels they have. I have a question though, how do you feel your disability is expressed through your work? I like the description but didn't quite make the connection between the description of your work and how your autism served as a source of inspiration.
I'll use my own artistic journey as an example to let you know what I am asking. I am very tall for a woman, I grew very fast for several years and was VERY clumsy. I also have periodic depression and tend to question most aspects of life that seem obvious and normal to most people.
I am a dancer and my strongest dance form was ballet. Ballet is very structured and requires years of discipline to become even an average dancer.
At some point I realized that ballet was a means of imposing structure and order to the world through imposing structure and order on the way I moved in it. I basically learned how to move without falling on my face through intensly studying the mechanics and art of ballet. At the same time I developed an interest in psychology and the social sciences - another attempt at making sense of people and the world though in the intellectual realm instead of artistic realm.
Does that make sense? Is there a related sort of process you are describing in your art? | |
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Posted: 5/2/2008 1:44:06 PM | Hello OP.....I am going to go off topic a bit. I hope you don't mind.
NOT EVERYONE SHOULD BE AN ARTIST..........the last thing the world needs is 'everyone' expressing themselves and being patted on the back for it. Most folks are just not smart enough to know what to do with such information. Just as I would never attempt to be a chemist............
NO, what the world needs is people who are dedicated to the work of explaining the beat of their own drum and relating that noise, to the world in general. Art only works when its not forced, its a natural thing.......it is not 'expressed' like milk. | |
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| Autism and art
Posted: 5/9/2008 3:25:50 PM | thanks for all your replies. i did not expect them, thinking to myself "would anyone understand this and reply", but here you all are. thank you bzzt for the you tube clip and recamend it to people to watch it. that is how i communicate in my world, but not as servire as that as i can speak verbly ( though my spelling on longer words isnt that great lol). i do communicate by tapping, scrapping, etc with things but only i notice them.
back to the art. at the moment ive been making a paint sculpture/relief (making a 3d self portrait face out of just paint and glue). ive just finished a life sized me made out of wire, raffia, mod roc, paint and clothes and makes people think its a real guy for a moment sitting in my college classroom. i also have created a few poems and im now starting a large canvas with dribbling paint to form an image. all of these discribe me and how i feel in a chaotic way and sometimes depressing (well my poems are but they are good). some of these will be shown at my colleges end of year show in norwich at the city college from either 16th of june or the 23rd of june, i'll post back to confirm the date for those in the area intrested. entry will be free and the college would like as many people as possible to come. though for others who cant come i might hopefully post my work on the net in the not so distant future. | |
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| Autism and art
Posted: 5/11/2008 8:51:00 PM | s2locke, when we share ourselves enough and show how we see things relate, we can more effectively collaborate in order to make sense of all chaos.
Inspiration leads to expression. Expression leads to sharing. Sharing leads to balance.
There can be no greater order than balance.
Your artistry is your inspiration, expression and sharing of yourself. It's all good.
Just take it slow so that you don't ignore the other aspects of your life you can also share with others.  | |
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Posted: 5/14/2008 3:01:55 AM | Wow!! I watched that amazing youtube video and was blown away by the depth of that lady's understanding and the different viewpoint she shows us.
OP I am encouraged by your enthusiasm for your art and ability to open up another window through which the world might come to understand autism just a little better.
Even if the artwork standing alone doesn't make it obvious, your explanation and participation helps.
I have an autistic son and sometimes I feel discouraged because of the things he struggles with. Today, reading this thread, I have been inspired to focus on the positive and realize how great it is that autism has such spikes of brilliance and offers opportunities for all of us to understand ourselves just a little better. Thankyou. | |
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| Autism and art
Posted: 5/14/2008 10:42:19 PM | | to call it a disability is a rather one sided story. a disability in my opionion whould be a deevolution. but if your ability is infact on the higher math side, or a different way of natural perception then perhaps its not. just the sacrifice to have that ability based on birth is a burden | |
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Posted: 5/15/2008 2:04:55 AM | hi,im a single mum n i have an 11 year old autistic daughter,she is the most precius gift n has shown me a wonderfull world,it makes them the person they really are, xx | |
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| Autism and art
Posted: 5/16/2008 9:34:35 AM |
if you were wondering what my work is like and want to see them, im affraid i have no website to show them at the moment as i have no knowledge on how to. so if you want to help me contact me and ill see what we can do
I am a smoker so I can not reply to you however if you care to send me a message I can put you in touch with an amazing artist who happens to be autistic. She is also very talented in web design. She is very busy so would not be able to build a site for you however she can get you pointed in the right direction.
Consider getting your own domain name and site of your own. Deviant art is ok, but if you want to stand out you need your own site. The web provider I use for my sites is very inexpensive and has excellent service. A domain name and web space will only run you about $25 per year. | |
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| Autism and art
Posted: 5/16/2008 9:40:26 AM |
Artists are very special individuals in general. We often live in a world of chaos, and tend to communicate differently than non-artists. We're emotional, passionate and need to be creative in everything that we do. A lot of artists have emotional, mental or physical disabilities - many suffer from depression and use art as therapy - so you are not alone in this.
That is so very, very true! | |
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Posted: 6/4/2008 1:58:17 PM | | hi again just to inform u that u can now contact me even if your a smoker | |
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Posted: 6/5/2008 12:38:29 AM | | I'm sure it would help I've always had an intrest to learn more about autism..it's crazy what beautiful minds and talents some people have with autism it just goes beyond average | |
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| Autism and art
Posted: 8/24/2008 7:53:43 PM | yes. in learning how you feel, think...anything that could put me inside your mind...I could better understand & help in the future---does that make sense? | |
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