“ Why can't my personal art collection be used as the collection for studying abroad ? "For preparing Collection of Overseas Art Works Have you ever had such a question? In fact, a large number of students, even though they were already art or design majors when they first came into contact with art study abroad, had certain deviations in their understanding of overseas art works collection. To avoid more students taking detours in the preparation of overseas art works collection, natural light will explain it carefully today What is the difference between personal art collection and overseas art application collection ？

　　 What is a collection of personal art works?

　　 Personal art collection We can simply understand it as: the exhibition collection of individual art works, in general, it emphasizes and pays more attention to the complete display of the final product. We often see the collection of artists' creations on sale in art stores, bookstores and museums, which can be regarded as a collection of individual art works. In the English expression of this kind of works, the word meaning tends to prefer the form of "Album/picture album, picture album" rather than Portfolio. Let's take the collection CORBEAU by photographer Anne Golaz as an example. In terms of binding, books tend to be simple and artistic. In terms of content, visual works basically occupy most of the pages, while the text part is mostly based on the photographer's life experience.

On the content page of individual art works, works almost occupy the whole page, or there are many works in one page, but there is very little text interpretation of works.

　　 What is a collection of works of art going abroad?

We use RISD Rhode Island School of Design Collection of Overseas Art Works For example, let's take a look at the requirements on the official website for overseas art works collection. Through these requirements, we can also clearly know what a set of overseas art works collection should be like.

We can summarize the following points:

　　-showcases your thinking and making

It is necessary to show the applicant's ideas and creation process through the collection of overseas art works.

　　-The work should reflect a full range of your ideas,interests,experiences and abilities in the arts.

The collection of overseas art works should reflect the applicant's various ideas, interests, experiences and abilities in the art field.

　　-We recommend that you include some developmental research and/or preparatory work for one of your submissions. It is helpful to show your process of thinking and investigation so we can see how you develop your ideas.

The school strongly recommends that the collection of overseas art works submitted by applicants include some contents of development research and preparation stage. These contents can help the school better see how the applicants think, research, create, and put their ideas into real works.

Do you find that the collection of overseas art works actually emphasizes the creative process and thinking logic? All the above three points emphasize "ideas" and "creative process". When you see this, you may say: Ideas are what I think in my mind. I complete the creation process on the draft, and some may still want to. There is no way/need to show these things, right? In fact, we will take the collection of overseas art works of students in natural light as an example to see what these works are excellent enough to impress top art schools:

The collection of clothing design professional works won Parsons and SAIC offers

The collection of professional works of interaction design was offered by UAL, Goldsmiths, Edinburgh and Loughborough

The collection of architectural works won AA, Pratt, Virginia, Kansas, Miami offers

Collected works of film art design were offered by UCLA and Chapman University

Having seen these overseas art collections, have you found any differences between them and personal art collections? No mistake! Whether it is clothing design, interaction design, architecture, or film art design, there are a lot of words in the works. Even the illustration profession, which does not seem to need any text expression at all, has also seen a lot of text content. There are also research processes, design "drafts" and schematic drawings, rather than simple works of art and dimensioning. These words, research process records, design drawings and scheme drawings are actually the "ideas" and "creation process" we see in the requirements of the college. This is also the biggest difference between overseas art collection and ordinary personal art collection.

Ordinary personal art collections often only need to show their works, and there is no need to repeat the content of the creation process. As for the ideas of art creators, they often do not make very detailed descriptions, and in terms of words, they also tend to make conscious statements. The collection of overseas art works requires the creator/applicant to make a very detailed and concrete design description of the works.

　　 Why is the overseas art collection so different?

First of all, we must know that both are collections of art and design works, but why is there such a big difference? At the admissions officer meeting organized by Natural Light for all international art students, we will set up a review link for the work collection of admissions officers, and not only natural light students can participate Review of overseas art works Other DIY students also have the opportunity to participate Admissions officer's portfolio review We found that some of the DIY students displayed personal art works, rather than overseas art works that can be used for application. Faced with this situation, even the admissions officers with years of rich experience are difficult to give very targeted guidance and suggestions, because this part of the definition of students' works is not understood enough. In the art study abroad, the collection of art works going abroad is actually a specific term with many restrictions hidden. When we browse the official websites of other art schools, we can see that art schools have very clear restrictions on the number, format, size, and submission form of works, and even some schools have specified the content, "It needs to include 5-10 observational paintings", "more Sketchbooks can be submitted as part of the collection", etc.

Secondly, although the collection of overseas art works is a necessary stepping stone for art study abroad, please remember!!! It is used for application and is highly functional! Moreover, its functionality is absolutely greater than its artistry. It is absolutely not allowed to prepare our application works with the idea of personal art works collection.

about Collection of Overseas Art Works For students who have met the requirements for the collection of works used in the application and have achieved a very high degree of completion, Natural Light also suggests that you can participate in the face-to-face review activities of the admissions officer of the institution more often, and do not miss any opportunity to improve your collection of works and application probability. If you want to book more professional admissions officer services or get more professional guidance, come to natural light for free consultation!

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