Make art like someone you admire. | Peggy and Garry Noland | The Art Assignment

Who are your influences? Who’s asking? Peggy Noland, a fashion designer, and Garry Noland, an artist who happens to be her father. We visit Peggy's shop in Kansas City, Missouri, and she and her dad give us the assignment to make an artwork in the style of someone whose work you admire.

INSTRUCTIONS - UNDER INFLUENCE

1. Choose an artist or a maker.

2. Get to know their work and practice.

3. Make something in that style.

4. Upload it to the social media platform of your choice using #theartassignment, telling us who you’ve chosen and how they’ve influenced you.

5. Fame & glory. (Your work might be featured in an upcoming episode.)

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Garry Noland:

[lesliefoundhergrail]

This assignment is very tangible to YouTubers. It's fun to watch them start out with a vlogging aesthetic like wheezy or communitychannel or Ze and then you check back with them a few dozen videos later and see the parts of THEM as a maker finally shine through. My favorite thing is finding people who just started making videos without any influence so their style is based on a influence from another medium that's just been moulded to this space. 

[LittlebigJessica]

I loved Gary and Peggy's response to the typical "I could have made that, " statement.

[mustardsfire]

Peggy's statements when she's making her piece very clearly explain why authors like George R.R. Martin are afraid of fanfiction, but also why fanfiction is a good thing. Thus, fanfiction could fit this Art Assignment.

[PogieJoe]

Pretty awesome to see a father and daughter get along so well and be able to inspire and learn from each other!

[NathanAndRose]

The Art Assignment  Rose and I are from Kansas City! I have seen Peggy's work and I recognize her studio! Super cool!

I love this assignment so much. I talk all the time about how collaboration is among my favorite elements of art. It's what makes Jazz so amazing, what makes film outstanding, even what makes YouTube videos awesome! When you can take two or more creative minds, what they are able to create between them or with each other's influence, to me, is one of the most exciting (and so extremely human) things!
-Nathan

[gonniez]

Oh, I love Peggy Noland so much her works are amazing

[kaileyrausch]

As a young artist, I have the hardest time not looking at other's work and thinking, "wow, he/she is so much better than I am" and then feeling bad about my own work. This has helped me to realize that maybe we all need experiences like that to push us forward and help develop our own personal style as an artist. Thanks! 

[KathyTrithardt]

I like the premise of copying a work directly (or making something in the same style) to get inside the creative mind of that person and experience a small piece of their process.

[littlearttalks]

This is a fantastic exercise. I especially love the idea of doing it with someone you know personally, since you can see how other people approach your work when they try to work with your style/technique 

[musicalmadalyn]

I love this idea! As a musician, I feel like I already do some semblance of this exercise every time I go to a lesson or masterclass.

[DJTyrrell]

I totally identify with this. As a musician, my career would be nothing without the other musicians who have influenced me and whose works I've learned from.

[Becca_Beam]

I just had a thought -- one interesting take would be finishing a work that another maker or artist has already started, using the assignment as a way to get into their head and try to understand their vision and intent for the finished project. This would only work with someone you know, and you could even purposefully only do part of a project before switching your partially-finished art pieces with a friend.

[ccartist]

One of my favorites... The closing statement... Bello💕

[Madamuuu]

I used to do this with poems a lot.  I'd rewrite my favorite poems several times until it was in my head, push the written copies away, and then try writing something on my own.  Different things would shine through-- maybe the theme, structure, certain turn of phrases, or whatever-- but it always felt like a kind of collaboration, even though most of those poets had long since passed away.  This assignment makes me want to try that again ^^.

[BrianHutzellMusic]

This made me think of my favorite clothing store of all time, the long-defunct Unique Clothing Warehouse in New York. It was hugely popular in the 1980s, filled with wearable art. The shoppers and makers, and even the building’s decorators included a Who’s Who of famous artists and musicians of the day.

[wenglish]

What I like about this assignment is that it give purpose to my GSCE art work, it fits the assignment so well!

[weirdral]

I don't really have anyone that artistically influential around me, but my husband and I just bought a house and my uncle, who's a contractor, is going to be helping us repair it, and I think I'm going to do this assignment that way. Seeing how he can help us make the house a whole home.

[jessherselfable]

I love this show so hard.  This is easily my favorite educational show on these YouTubes.  :)  (Don't tell John and Hank!)

[lookdownimthere]

Oh my goodness!!!! Kansas City, MO!!! The Noland's!!! this is my home, how cool!! 

[mccgirl]

This is probably my favorite Art Assignment yet!