IB Visual Arts LINCOLN SCHOOL Costa Rica: MARIANNE BICKNER Lincoln School Costa Rica. IB Visual Arts 2015

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

MARIANNE BICKNER Lincoln School Costa Rica. IB Visual Arts 2015

The artist Statement
by Marianne Bickner

With a stressful school schedule and a thirst for creativity, I chose IB art in tenth grade not really knowing what I would get into. This was the class I doubted the most since I am very numerical and not the best at art but I decided that it was a challenge I needed to undertake. Throughout this course I have tried several techniques from oil painting, watercolors, acrylics, and photography but ended up finding my passion in textiles. This course made me realize that through different line qualities I am able to express different things. Strings and threads give me freedom in art that yet connects everything back to the design fundamentals: lines. My first artworks are not loose at all, not only because of the media I used, but also because I was very stuck on the idea of being perfectionist. Yet, as I progressed as an artist I discovered that lines and threads were my thing and that I got very interesting pieces out of these techniques. I have discovered different ways to using threads like sewing the canvas, gluing thread to it, and letting threads loose. When analyzing my artworks, I was able to draw connections between different meanings of animals, techniques, and what I wanted to portray as an artist: connections. I did very different projects that ended up having the same idea of meaning even if I did not plan it so. After long periods of searching for something I like, I now know that I have found my style in the use of threads. An artist that inspired me is Josh Bryan with his accurate portraits of celebrities made up of triangles.