Christoph Niemann: You are fluent in this language (and don't even know it)
Christoph Niemann: Gerai mokate šią kalbą (ir to net nežinote)
With charm and incisive wit, Christoph Niemann sketches the moments of our shared experience. Full bio
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is the greatest job there is.
each and every one of you
discovering new galaxies
ieškant naujų žvaigždynų
visuotinio atšilimo.
is also a daunting job.
from nine to six, doing this.
that consists entirely
ir skundimosi apie tai,
of the creative process.
about what makes my life difficult.
ne apie savo gyvenimo problemas,
you are fluent in a language
of reading images.
of an intellectual effort.
is that you can take a very complex idea
kad ja sudėtingą mintį
in a very simple, efficient form.
exactly the same ideas.
at the college hat,
the accessory you wear on your head
dėvimą ant galvos
is they cannot only communicate images,
savo informaciją,
an unfamiliar place and you see this.
pamatote tai.
or maybe downright panic.
Arba net panikuoti.
more than just graphic icons.
nei tik maži ženkliukai.
of modern-day struggle,
problemos pavyzdį,
between two airplane seats
tarp dviejų sėdynių lėktuve
ta universali taisyklė,
30 seconds to fight it out
išsikovoti porankį,
for the rest of the flight.
visą likusį skrydį.
is full of these images.
kupini panašių vaizdų.
the idea of discomfort,
kaip atrodo diskomfortas,
to make you more comfortable --
is I fall into a sort of painful coma.
į tokią skausmingą komą.
taste in my mouth.
patį bjauriausią skonį.
it cannot be described with words,
neįmanoma apsakyti žodžiais.
prefer to do it while spooning.
šaukštelio pozoje.
for close to 20 years,
esu tobulai įvaldęs,
I've never figured out
vis dar nežinau,
even more complicated
su mažais vaikais.
"I had a bad dream."
sorry for them, they're your kids,
they're really cute and warm and snugly.
labai miela ir jauku.
they inexplicably --
jie nepaaiškinamai...
malūnsparnio režimu.
into your consciousness,
to have an emotional reaction.
jūsų emocijoms išgauti.
at filling in the blanks.
there's this concept of negative space.
negatyvios erdvės sąvoka.
of drawing the actual object,
yra tušti.
to project food into a void.
įsivaizduoja, kad ten yra maistas.
is a pair of AA batteries
by moving my desk lamp up and down.
judinau savo stalinę lempą.
to trigger such an image?
kad įsivaizduotume tokį vaizdą?
is to use the smallest amount possible.
kuo mažiau.
paprastas kompozicijas,
one more element,
as an artist is abstraction.
mėgstamiausias įrankis – abstrakcija.
which I call the abstract-o-meter,
„abstraktometru“.
for example the heart and the arrow,
širdį su strėle,
as the symbol for love,
of realism or abstraction.
kaip tik noriu.
it just grosses everybody out.
bus tiesiog šlykštu žiūrėti.
and do very abstract,
what they're looking at.
the perfect place on that scale,
toje skalėje.
to a more simple form,
become possible.
new angles in storytelling.
visai kitu kampu.
cultural areas and bring them together.
ir juos sujungti.
things become so obscure
pasidarys taip neaišku,
to have a good understanding
gerai suprasti
vocabulary of your audience.
patirtį.
a comment on the Olympics in Athens,
Atėnuose komentarą –
of the "New Yorker"
idea of Greek art.
apie graikų meną.
nėra veiksmingas.
even appreciate the small detail,
net ir smulkmenas,
on the bottom of the vase.
vazos apačioje.
with magazine editors,
radical leaps with images
visiškai kitą vaizdų prasmę,
is that they often seem to push me
esu verčiamas naudoti
of really tired visual clichés
vaizdines banalybes,
climbing up a ladder,
Verslininkas, lipantis kopėčiomis,
morphs into a stock market graph,
diagramos stulpeliais,
that's always good.
Visada tinka.
here in the audience,
like this is published,
šitoks piešinys,
o kada blogai?
and the tsunami in Japan,
ir cunamio Japonijoje metu,
one of the greatest drawings ever.
visų laikų meno kūrinių.
in Fukushima got out of hand.
tapo nebevaldoma.
of the workers in hazmat suits,
su apsaugine apranga,
was how quiet and serene it was.
tos scenos tyla ir ramybė.
of a silent catastrophe.
an aha moment, for you, for the reader.
jums, skaitytojams.
when I create these images.
pats ją patiriu.
going off in my head.
kuri staiga užsidega galvoje.
priėmimo procesas,
lead to a good idea.
prie geros idėjos.
and I'm trying to decode
blurry upside-down,
what to do with that.
on the Brooklyn bridge in a traffic jam.
spūstyje ant Bruklino tilto.
but also kind of poetic.
and put them together in this idea.
galiu sujungti į vieną.
is not show a realistic scene.
parodyti tikrovišką sceną,
already had this image with you,
kad jau žinojote šį vaizdą,
were carrying it with you all along.
jį nešiojotės su savimi.
this is a very delicate process
tai labai delikatus procesas,
nor scalable, I think.
nei lengvai išplečiamas.
important skill for an artist
from the perspective of the reader.
skaitytojo akimis.
by becoming a better observer of images.
tapdamas geresniu stebėtoju.
an exercise for myself
a random object I found around the house
namuose rastą daiktą
could trigger an idea
kokių nors idėjų,
with the original purpose of that item.
to daikto paskirtimi.
I'm blank for a long while.
is if I open my mind
kai atveriu savo atmintį
I have stored up there,
a few lines of ink to connect --
kokią nors sąsają,
moment of inspiration.
trumpą įkvėpimo akimirką.
doesn't happen on paper.
ne ant popieriaus lapo.
clash with my artistic intentions.
su tuo, ką aš noriu perteikti.
be bothered or bored or inspired
būti suerzintiems,
as my artistic contribution.
kiek ir menininko indėlis.
an artistic statement
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Christoph Niemann - Illustrator, artist, authorWith charm and incisive wit, Christoph Niemann sketches the moments of our shared experience.
Why you should listen
Christoph Niemann is the master of the deceptively simple. His work -- which often combines line drawing or brushwork with physical objects, or eschews drawing altogether in favor of LEGO -- has appeared on the covers of the New Yorker, WIRED and the New York Times Magazine and has won many awards. He has drawn live from the Venice Art Biennale and the Olympic Games in London, and he has sketched the New York City Marathon -- while running it. He created the New Yorker's first augmented reality cover as well as a hand-drawn 360-degree VR animation for the magazine's US Open issue.
Niemann is the author of many books, including the monograph Sunday Sketching, WORDS and Souvenir. With Nicholas Blechman, he published the book Conversations. With Jon Huang, he created the kids' apps Petting Zoo and Chomp. His work is subject of an episode of Abstract, a new original Netflix series.
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