This is a project where I pay workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk to review my art and website and pay them $5 for 500 words. This is the 60th review I've received.
This is my review
of the art on the website of Paul Shortt, a guy I have never heard of before,
perhaps because i am somewhat art-illiterate, or because the guy might be too
unique on his own to be widely know. Anyways, the young artist finished his BFA
studies on Kansas City art Institute just about four years ago, and still he
was able to participate on numerous group shows. While still studying, he has
his signature written under many pieces worth mentioning and reviewing. Paul
Shortt, in quite a few years of doing what you apparently love the most, you
achieved interesting things. While I do not possess an expert eye for art, I am
fond of interesting things and I do have sense fondness for uniqueness. So i
tried to maintain my focus in a whole on his artistic portfolio and began to
evaluate my feelings and thoughts, feeling more or less impressed with what I
saw. So I went through numerous of his pictures and videos. Many of the pieces
seen there look pretty much decent, while few others really stand out. There is
not lack of humor there - right in the beginning, Please No Photo collection
shows that. Shots of various indivudals or groups of people in the streets
contain big no-photo icon covering quite a big part of photos. Interesting
idea, pointing at the chance some people just did not want to approve the photo
later and even the great shot is made for nothing.
Another example for laughs
can be found at The Business of Selling Yourself.. really nice business card,
haha! From this and other works of Paul, I can see he focuses his artistic
works on various connection between people, after his exploration of daily
life. To me, perhaps because of my lack of artistic feel, they seem quite weird
:) But i admit, they make a person think and feel. There is a specific message
in each one of them. At first one may feel these pieces of work are arranged
just like that, without a purpose, but no, nothing is random, you just need to
take a closer look. There is a sophisticated message presented there, sometimes
polished and sometimes not, delivered to a "consumer" through
metaphorical artistic expressions. The author, trying to made a perfectly
surprising delivery, does not hesitate to even use his very personal details,
as in aforementioned Business Of Selling Yourself. These pieces of art are
filled with delicate and bitter sarcasm. I will tell you what I like the most
about the work of Paul Shortt. It is the fact he really does not use high
amount of funds to do his work. It is because he uses quite simple yet very
cool and effective ideas to make something out of nothing. with low budget, he
is always able to create something of high value. This guy really uses his mind
and can see there is so much around him he can use for his work. I find this
really amazing.
For more info on this project please check out my website: http://paulshortt.com/Pay-For-An-Audience-5-Star-Ratings
