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Amateurs "recreate" what they have seen before, and pros "create" something new (or different).
That's why WE get to break the rules.
Matthew L Kees
MLK Studios Photography School
www.MLKstudios.com
[email protected]
"Every artist, was once an amateur"
Please, be gentle...
www.dcimages.org.uk
"A good photograph is one that communicate a fact, touches the heart, leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective." - Irving Penn
What I meant was....
... he's doing something "non-standard". That's the direction of an artist. To break some rules!
An example of looking at a normal thing differently:
instagr.am/p/N9M8i/
Seeing it as line, shape, color and texture only.
Matthew L Kees
MLK Studios Photography School
www.MLKstudios.com
[email protected]
"Every artist, was once an amateur"
We tend to look for something that we can file in a drawer in our mind. That landscape looks just like one I saw before, so it fits well into that drawer. I can file it away and go on.
Shot taken. Case closed!
However an artist is working through some stuff, and doesn't always have a drawer to file it in. He has to go back and do it over, and better the next time. And then again and again, until it says what he wants it to say.
It's a process, not a project.
Matthew
eta It's how Dada changed everything. It used to be an artist was someone who could draw or paint (or work well in some art medium). Now it's about making us think about something, and look at it in a new way.
Modern art does not include "happy trees". Well, it could I guess.
Matthew L Kees
MLK Studios Photography School
www.MLKstudios.com
[email protected]
"Every artist, was once an amateur"
Wait.. what?
If an artist wants to make a picture of a tree, and successfully represents a tree, then the artist has succeeded at his craft. Correct?
If there was no other idea behind it, other than making a true and clear tree picture (even happy trees), is it still art?
I think is what you are saying. Did I get that right?
Matthew L Kees
MLK Studios Photography School
www.MLKstudios.com
[email protected]
"Every artist, was once an amateur"
If I get what you mean, the art has value simply by being well crafted. It can connect to everyone with different "messages", whether it was the original intent, or not.
A similar argument goes to back to whether beauty is an absolute. Or is it seen in the eye of the beholder. I don't know the answer to that. It's still being argued among artists and art historians, and I expect it will continue to be.
eta This is the piece Duchamp exhibited at MOMA that changed forever the direction of "modern" art:
www.sfmoma.org/explore/collection/artwork/25853
No longer was intent a part of the craft (its execution), instead it was applied to the work, through imagination (and suggestion). As seen in "found art" -- like the fountain.
It gave rise to the constant question you hear often in modern art museums today. Why is THAT art? Or, my 5 year old could've done that!
While the impressionists weren't well received at first, the subjects they used are recognizable as something traditionally art worthy -- i.e. landscapes, portraits, still lifes, and of course, sunflowers. Most will agree they have artistic merit today.
Dadaism changed that. And while I agree some of it is reachable due to its structure (or form). It isn't "traditional" enough for everyone to grasp.
Hope you don't mind we borrowed your thread, Tow.
Matthew L Kees
MLK Studios Photography School
www.MLKstudios.com
[email protected]
"Every artist, was once an amateur"
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