Art Journals
Art journals are very important in the art world as they shows viewers a vary of things such as upcoming exhibitions, artist reviews, art competitions and they really just keep you up to date in the modern art world that's always developing and changing.
Yesterday I looked at 5 art journals and compared them to see which one I preferred. I looked at Flash Art, Art Forum, Art Review, Aperture and Photo works.
Flash Art Issue 299
Flash Art magazine to me I thought was very useful for practicing and professional artists as it was filled with a exhibitions dates, news, reviews and featured a vary of artists that I found intriguing as I found some I haven't came across yet, but now I'm going to research the artists in full depth where they are more than likely going to influence my future work.
Art Forum November 2014 issue
Art Forum was 3/4 full of just pages advertisings exhibitions that was world wide so for me that wasn't very useful as I'm a student and I cant afford to go to another country to see an exhibition even though I would love to. But it also had articles about films, artists and architecture but to me I felt like this magazine was just for advertisement purposes and that was it. Even though the magazine was presented well, as it was spacious but bright and looked intriguing, but at the same time this magazine was boring and the articles didn't catch my eye as a practicing artist as it just didn't interest me.
Art Review December 2014 issue
For me this magazine had too much writing in it and not enough actual artwork and even when they shown artwork in the magazine it was quite a small image, where I would prefer the image of a piece of artwork, to at least cover half of a page. It was full of advertisement, artists, exhibition dates and the same type of information that was in all the art journals, but this one was more focused on the words they was writing rather than the actual images of artwork.
Photoworks issue 21
I really thought Photoworks would interest me as photography is a big part of my practice, but I really wasn't interested in this magazine at all nothing made me want to focus on there pages when I was flicking through it. After being disappointed from looking through there magazine I decided to browse on there website what was so much interesting as there was lots of articles, projects and even a shop where you could buy books of well known photographers.
Aperture issue 217
Pages from Aperture
Out of all the art journals I looked at Aperture was my favourite as it had all the useful information in, that it needed such as exhibition dates, photographers, competitions, interesting articles and so much more. As I love to do photography in my practice this magazine was very useful as it gave me ideas and artists that I could research further down the line that may influence my work. With Aperture I also loved the layout of the magazine as it was simple, clear to read and looked very up to date and modern especially with the white background and black text as it wasn't full of colour and didn't look to busy.
Aperture is $24.95 what is quite a lot of money but compared to the other journals I looked at I would actually buy this one as it would benefit me with my practice, as I do a lot of photography work recently compared to just painting so the other journals wouldn't benefit me as much as Aperture would.
All images can be found on the art journals websites:
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