The Beautiful Awful | Alyssa Monks | TEDxIndianaUniversity
Alyssa Monks describes the interaction of life, paint, and canvas through her development as an artist, and as a human. Alyssa Monks earned her B.A. from Boston College and she studied painting...
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Translator: Joanna Pietrulewicz Reviewer: Ivana Korom I'm a painter. I make large-scale figurative paintings, which means I paint people like this. But I'm here tonight to tell you about something personal that changed my work and my perspective. It's something we all go through, and my hope is that my experience may be helpful to somebody. To give you some background on me, I grew up the youngest of eight. Yes, eight kids in my family. I have six older brothers and a sister. To give you a sense of what that's like, when my family went on vacation, we had a bus. (Laughter) My supermom would drive us all over town to our various after-school activities -- not in the bus. We had a regular car, too. She would take me to art classe...
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Translator: Joanna Pietrulewicz Reviewer: Ivana Korom I'm a painter. I make large-scale figurative paintings, which means I paint people like this. But I'm here tonight to tell you about something personal that changed my work and my perspective. It's something we all go through, and my hope is that my experience may be helpful to somebody. To give you some background on me, I grew up the youngest of eight. Yes, eight kids in my family. I have six older brothers and a sister. To give you a sense of what that's like, when my family went on vacation, we had a bus. (Laughter) My supermom would drive us all over town to our various after-school activities -- not in the bus. We had a regular car, too. She would take me to art classe...
