Robert Moreau
Contact Info
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Robert Moreau
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design
Office: 318-357-4475
Email: V2NLlqO@ORTdC.edu
Education
M.F.A., Studio Art, 8/03, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX.
M.A., Studio Art, 12/00, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX.
B.F.A., Studio Art, 5/98, Magna cum Laude, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX.
Post Baccalaureate Independent Study, 6/98 - 5/99 (unofficial), Gary H. Brown, Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA.
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Teaching Philosophy
I firmly believe that the best teachers remain lifelong students. It is with this idea in mind that I work for an interactive manner of instruction. I encourage experimentation in an effort to help students learn to think creatively on their own. The exchange of ideas with students is a process that allows both teacher and student to grow. It is also necessary that students develop the skills needed to effectively communicate something of their own ideas and experiences. If this is done, they are well on their way to finding their own unique voices.
Finally, it is important for me to help my students become aware not only of the value of basic skills needed for the creation of their own art, but also to understand the fundamental importance of art itself. An understanding of the important role of art, both historically and contemporarily, should be an aspect of all art courses.
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Artist Statement
A concern with issues of craftsmanship and concept informs my work. I show this with a Westermann-like crafting of wood sculpture and a high degree of draftsmanship in figurative drawings. This may come from my desire to create objects which indicate their maker's mastery of a skill or skills, as well as to underscore the importance of the relic: the object that results from the concept.
My recent work involves the combination of various media and explores the resulting conceptual dynamics of these combinations. By placing sculptures and drawings so that they seem to interact, I allow the viewer an opportunity to participate in an intellectual game, where he or she is required to assign meaning to several aspects of the exhibition. The combination of well-crafted objects with a puzzling concept results from my desire to reintroduce Modernist ideas of beauty and "objecthood" into the contemporary pluralism of post-Postmodern art. This recent work explores the use of readymades: objects found in the hardware store. Finding much of the inventory of any given hardware store beautiful in an almost Duchampian way, I wonder exactly how much assistance they need to become art or, at least, a part of art. In my view, more is required of the artist than simply to choose the object for it to become art. Also, more is required of art than simply an idea or a concept. Art must also be carefully and skillfully embodied in durable, material form.