alt_edIs this a good picture? Is it art?
September 8th 2008 03:09
Yes/No, and why? What makes it good/bad? Is it art, or just a happy snap, and if it's art then why? What makes an image art; does it become art when taken by a famed photographer... does that then mean that a photographers family photo book is also art?
Same deal... good or bad? Yes, No and Why...
Lucky last... is it art?
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Comment by Morgan Bell
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great photos! its all art!
Comment by alt_ed
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AND what makes it art then??
Comment by Michaelie
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Excellent question and something I have wondered myself in relation to books - what makes something literature? Can it not be literature if it primarily has commercial value? Can literature only be accessible to an 'informed' minority?
I am probably closer to answering my question than yours, this is a bit different.
Maybe it's art if there is an aesthetic motivation behind it? But then there is 'accidental' art where aesthetic value is recognised after the fact, but not purposefully created?
Beauty and/or stimulation, whether intended or perceived, by anyone, in their own subjectivity...
Bloody hell, I don't know. I'm just rambling like a twit, as usual. I wish I would go and do it on my own post though instead of distracting myself with everyone else's!
Great post!
Michaelie
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Thanks for the comments.. Hmm, I'm going to have to think about the first one for a minute lol...
But the second, about the golf course- well actually, that's a shot from Toronto's CN Tower, of HtO Park (a new development along the waterfront).
As for the last picture... what do YOU see?
Comment by Lara M
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Comment by Michaelie
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The last one... you really don't want to know.
Comment by Norm
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If you know what I mean.
Photography?
Must be more complicated for the heavyhitters than just pointing and shooting but, it's still photography
Tone, light, composition, subject matter, point of view, and more I'm sure.
I could hit a good shot every so often but, that doesn't win the French
Comment by Kleonaptra
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Comment by Lilla
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I always thought art was that which (1) reflects life, and in so doing (2) creates an emotional response in the person viewing it.
Of course both of these views will only be my opinion, but;
Picture (1) - evokes no emotion, although it does relfect an aspect of real life, although not the common view?
Picture (2) - Does both. It reflects real life and evokes the emotion of complete boredom - perhaps even with traces of celerbrating medicority?
Picture (3) - Reflects life through time in an abstract sense of the word? In me though it evokes little emotion except to reflect on my own passing of time/ age / old and new.
Picture (4) - Reflecting life through the lens of what the architect wanted you to see as a reflection of his reflection of life [you know, concrete dimishes nature to ever smaller little islands of refuge] ... *dizzy* would be the emotion, yet it speaks of worlds, continents, Islands ... *chuckle* Chaos and order?
Picture (5) - *LOL* Maybe reflects life of a fish tank against the back drop of the sea, for those on an LSD trip? Emotionally, it leaves me cold like a fish ...
I would not hang these on my wall, nor would I call them art, although technically they are by its definition I spose?
Give me the Mona Lisa any day.
Interesting question.
Lilla ...
Comment by CarlCan
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Does it make you think?
Whether it is post modernist or minimalist does it really matter? Life is Art.
Comment by alt_ed
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Lara,
Good response Norm.. now where's my racket?
Kleonaptra can you define artistic vision in this context? basically, these are all my own pictures... the 1st pic i took about 4 years ago, and this might sound weird but my intent was to snap a decent desktop background... all the rest however, are basically just 'happy snaps' from my travels... with the exception of #3, which is from a series i shot of the buildings surrounding Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal.
Life is art carl, here here!!
Thanks everyone for stopping by
Comment by Kleonaptra
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Thats usually the best art!
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But hey, who knows I could be the next Andy Warhol right? hehe