Today I attended the lecture by Vera Illiatova, a former professor at UNH. She came to teach here directly after completing graduate school at Yale. I found the lecture to be entertaining and informative. I especially enjoyed her explaining how her research process could consist of watching the O.C. and taking long walks on the beach alone. It is small insights of the creative process like that which really help me to dive into the psyche of the artist and make me understand the work more on a whole. I also really enjoyed the way she went about explaining the landscape in her work. Since it is a particular interest of mine, I was excited to hear how she brought the surrounding area of the seacoast into her work. She explained that in the paintings she did in this area, that atmosphere (fog) and light (water reflection) were two of her main focuses. I could definitely sense that she knew the importance of understanding the landscape in which she painted.
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