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Live art: how to paint the story | Miroslav Lucan | TEDxBournemouthUniversity

well hello everyone huh well my coach is about how to paint a story as you can see from this I haven't always been to the story actually last aeneas I was I was mainly technical speaker and I used to work for loads of our car collectors and companies and cars bikes architecture you know boats and it was all very detail very technical as much as I loved it trouble with this was stuff like this would take me about four to five hours I would spend the money somewhere locked in a studio you know and it gets pretty lonely and I mean I'm loved it I'm personally quite a little Mike you know but it's not maybe the best thing for being an artist these days you know some sort of posed in a basement in a studio down about two and a half years ago I almost asked and very strange thing for me at a time considering doing all this lonely person how he doing it my ground there's a poetry group here in Bournemouth called freeway poets and they asked me to do a little bit of life art for them I try the time I thought okay this is this is a bit challenging they were working front of people and they were created and I think like that and so what am I gonna do I thought very first time I was like okay I'm not going to the stage I'm you know gonna see me up there and so my excuse at a time was I'll be headed back from the room and I'll hide there and I can see the stage better I can see all the speakers however right away giving this platform I thought well firstly as three challenges I can't spend thirty five hours will be secreting something like this because there's one item so my time straightaway go from 35 hours to down to 53 hours maybe maximum and secondly well I'm working in front of people so how does it have this audience now and how do I find find my voice and what do I want to project to them how do I gonna I wouldn't hope you I want to share a message with them you know or is this important at all and so the very first piece was this as you see it very first it's quite a step from the previous one it's not as refined but as I must first I used it as a bit of an art statement for myself at the time and I still believe for for as I am now and it's talking about priorities for me as an artist and well as an artist and also is trying to make art into a living until you look at the priorities you know you start you know very nice and cheery and we want to make people happy and you want to make your message to come across you know and that is also obvious a very important go then starting to run this as a business suddenly you find in order to get to the galleries in order to get get to work with clients you know we meet all these challenges and you have to start up in commissions and finances and all these things and obviously everyone's trying to take chunk of your work then if this doesn't work or even if it does you still have to think about the other things well okay can I make my living even my basics and paying rent and bills and and food you know and all these things the thing is even if all this doesn't work if you truly live for it actually it doesn't matter it just goes back to well you create art to make so happy and it's hard for people okay it's art for myself for this it's part of me and I'm going now but it's all it's all projection of me you know onto other people as well and of this world as well so actually not achieving any of the previous goals it doesn't matter and shouldn't stop you if you create a person in making it I'll stay with a 3-week words this is one of the other works I did with them already quite a bit more refined it was few months after they sessions happen about monthly and gravy Dominus they have a monthly team which helps me as a artist because other people to think about and this whole month of thinking okay well what's the next one this was piece I think it as a challenge as a storyteller I don't want to be very obvious and in a way I like to do same was poetry now switches take take the word or take a subject and try to play with it and twist it around a little bit and offer people something they wouldn't necessarily expect in this case it's okay it's based on a sort of peas death but I'm looking at sort of all the things hidden behind it you know and and all the issues them are there for people to questions I'll try to be undirected so if not it's not fully fully specific you know about at least people question their work with this one again next one bid me the freeway guys a lot more challenging the previous thing must be is there one before was life of artists this month at least a January sale what that's um really a theme what do I do a general Harry sale and so first I'm thinking well okay let's just have a guy you know selling a bunch of his stuff because at the time I think I was moving as well so that was all in my head I thought that's really boring first for people a bunch of furniture to put each other is not gonna make excited picture so place quite boring for me as well once once I got to this point oh okay well that's a wardrobe as a lamp what else do I add it's just a bunch of furniture okay well maybe to go I was a truck driver that's not something unexpected so here we have a truck and then you start playing with an actual scale under work because also all these they happen quite liked game on the board okay how do I fill the space after already adding a random truck on a rocket and again just to keep the tension up well there's a sail let's take him on an isolated island why not okay this quite personal to me living in the UK we overcrowded with CCTV everywhere it's a big big thing here there's a funny laugh I wasn't talking about CCTVs as such the theme for this was Christmas but I thought well we might as well um death instead of a decorations because if you would go to Christmas trees around there's always being watched by cameras not to be set on fire or someone flying on it you know it just happens you know one with that it's quite personal and the fact that it was so personal exhibition came out humans later when I actually took the concept of CCDs bit further and maybe tiny bit more political as well not just looking at the CCTV Island which England still yes but also this was also a middle of recession so it's been gloomy and not that much has change I think it's a bit more positive now but it was also talking about the perception of people coming here from abroad and with a certain expectations and they move in here and realised action really is been different and they really being challenged of you know just just for for coming from from different country in everyone and it's obvious a massive issue now as well you know with all the politics and stuff but I take it as a challenge for me as an artist I have a voice now okay this is the big difference if you look at the cars or bikes and stuff like that before car is still just a car doesn't matter how much detail you put in suddenly through this life art I found a voice and okay it's very much simplified as a art form but now I have a platform to speak you know why now I can react to issues around you know when it a political edit a humorous you know where today environment this is actually one of the environment for once you know this was a again big wall piece talking about man killing nature but in return not being able to survive another nature just to put it in scale for you because I'm talking these have been coy large-scale it was actually big exhibition within a group of us are street artists and illustrators this was under gallery so inside soccer's art for his guys but it was one project it was that I just paid to life on the wall you know lasted for a few months also often what I have to do in return because the work has been created life or being painted on a wall it doesn't survive or is being repaired by someone else so my chance is said to capture it photographically and turn it into something else staying with environmental this is another work another type of work with its last summer and there was a whole month of life work done Boorman square again a very different challenge because rather than three wave words for another month to think about the idea it still happens very last minute normally the idea up to two hours before I have a bright moment in a shower but there's a whole month of thinking and rejecting the other ideas before not necessarily rejecting sometimes that still would mean you later well that's what happens with these and was very different challenge again it was out in public in front of people I didn't have time to think I didn't have monthly thing it was the only thing every day we tried to create something else and with that it created big pressure especially on the head of subjects because for for your mind as artists it can't just go have a how they have a bit books it's just depressing as much as I love it I'm quite happy person as well so I tried to mix sort of have a social political stuff and one little car weight more numerous stuff like this better English so does the guy sort of pushing it towards or because I'm big t pilot well you know so but mixing that and I have a just think sort of between obviously all no reason to flag a very famous thing this will actually me are working they like constantly after up thereby free day stepping into chewing gums and I've been really annoyed with it I'm thinking is this movement and how do I capture and this thing came about okay well I'll just play with below just have some fun well either side of it it's educational work absolutely love dis whether it's working on educational murals for wildlife or but it's going back to history these are some the world fearing universities so this is one of the local poets barns and then just put it in a spectrum where try to illustrate his life as well not just him you know about that as a poem he did on a very latched which I can't read because it's an old rule Dorset language and it's already booked sorry about saying this guy what only local our aviation pioneers there was Cohan his plane I got a market treat for me to bring this because I'm quite technical so that got me back to the roots and just put it in perspective again is it massive all be strong tonight it all together this more personal we as I take lots of time with my work this is all talking about patience and a summary obviously it just sits there you know to our thumbs waiting for this very moment when a person mode these are fun I'm big on coffee as well I do this a lot these are fun for people as well because what happens then they just come in and have fun like they or another one like to just take myself in this bring it all this and I'm professor by the way that's just the picture now I'm taking this it's more serious every business is a lot all around the country we tried to capture what's happening at Ellen's and when they discuss all these really heavy meetings you know and what a day economic or whether they level Oakland and it's normally looks or numbers and it might be quite boring quite a bit so it was challenged to work with that so I had to simplify the style because it's much faster so here we are correcting the market carefully market and it's basically playing with the pictures and visuals for these people just making a bit more interesting for them and give them something in return this is raspberry pie for the video technical ones here on a really very put a computable devices and this it's part of a very large picture this is actually talking about lack of communication again very very simplified but do people it would make sense at the time because well they were employ invited as a band members to a party and obviously communication mishap one of them didn't understand well enough how it happens in large-scale is normally this this was meeting about highways which would be very very boring what we tried to do just to make it really entertaining and so well let's get rid of a highways why shouldn't it happen in his face you know again it's much more into and interesting to people and then we can strength you know on this space allegory recycling you know or black holes which in this case was a finances obviously stuff like that more personal stuff to me I still go back to basics as a technical artist again this was big wall for a coffee shop but us allows me because cars muscle cars Harley's and stuff like that big joy this stuff like this which is actually very relaxing to me might some bit have it to some people but it's again just taking the subject which would be regular shipping in multiple and just make it into something bit bigger and bit unexpected so this one was placed on a movie Pacific Rim and actually wanted a few which is with me in the studio because it's three different boards so therefore I was able to take them home bit of a heavy one are we getting towards the end this one I think this is much more me as an artist you know I like to push the issues a little bit it's talking about lack of communication lack of communication between people themselves when they um they phones and stuff like that which is the classic paranoia device in between the couple but is also talking about the information overload in a society when although yes we have access to all the information and all our devices it's so much of it it goes past us and also because it's very difficult to choose the right information these days anyway it shuts us up you know and takes all the communication skills away from us and this is what the base is talking about if I close with this it seems been depressive it's actually very very inspiring these I hope you totally story behind it what is this I'm so numb forest there's a parallel or our mind our subconscious in this sense and if you want to dream stay the teddy bears as that as they are looking they they are childhood dreams and aspirations so let's say someone told you rubbish at sink in whether you are a kid and he stopped singing and maybe you are an amazing singer but because of this one single person there it you stopped think this it's although you think is that it's not it's still somewhere here in your heart you know so you can just bring him back and revive it so so as depressing at these as these look on you need to be at these sessions you know to experience them because once you know the story behind it you know orphanage changes meaning my sibling man I think getting this I'm working on these pictures specially line means you have to a big visual library in here so my advice to you is to keep on educating yourself constantly reading watching movies but it is watching documents but it's reading books or just walking the street but looking up you know keeping your eyes open and get it in because later on you can use it big big thing for me is having this in my pocket if just a regular camera which actually by the way thing here I can you know do this which is amazing but focus well this allows me to do is because sometimes your memory is limited is to capture whatever is happening around there and look at it like that and then to gain from the from the visual of feedback you have and this is one of the examples just walked on on the way back from from work I just seen this in the sky and to me this is just beautiful oh wow now someone's talking to me and so many I'm gonna leave you in case someone doesn't see it this is where we are so you