:lol:I meant that I am free from “academic understanding” of art. I don’t need to understand art but to feel it. It is a big difference. When we look at Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Titian, or Rembrandt we don’t need a scholar to tell us about the paintings but we feel the beauty of it. Please don’t forget that the art we like and choose reflect our emotional and mental states. I like deferent paintings of Caravaggio than you like, for example. Do you think that something is wrong about that? :biggrinjester: Or, are you telling that I don’t have a right to post the paintings I like…..because as you said that I don’t have “the least grasp of the art of the last century or understand the idea “Quote:
No one is free from influences. In spite of admitting such, I will state that art criticism and art theory are of little influence upon my judgment and opinion of art. My opinions are based upon my eye after having looked at a broad array of art across the scope of history and culture
De gustibus non est disputandum……we are not at school, aren’t we? :reddevil:
We are talking about art not literature. It is subjective what we like and there is nothing wrong about that. The true master piece speaks for itself but some people may not like certain art or paintings even though it is a master piece. Everybody is unique. Do you think that they are inferior because of that? I highly value people who are independent thinkers and non conformists. Maslov spent his entire career to study creative people who could reach primary creativity. Unfortunately, there is a small procentage of people who fit into this category.Quote:
No... but just as it helps to have enough of an ear for literature to recognize the qualitative differences between Dan Brown or the Twilight books and Keats, Yeats and Proust, it is of real importance to have developed enough of an eye to discern kitsch from a masterpiece... or even just good art.
I hear you. But why can not you accept that I use art in a very different way. I don’t push upon you my approach to working with art. I just posted the paintings I like and I got a storm over my head. :lol:Quote:
Admittedly, I am not interested in "using" art for therapy... or anything else. I am interested in creating art and as such I am interested in the mechanics of art... how as image communicates well without resorting to cliche.
Well, I have already told you that analyzing and diagnosing the individual is dangerous. BTW, it was not I who made assumptions about the intentions of the artists.Quote:
The notion that art is little more than self-expression is an idea born of the Romantics... and almost enough to make me really despise Wordsworth. One of the greatest hurdles faced by the 20-something art student is getting over the notion that as an artist their art is an expression of who they are... and as such any criticism of their art is a criticism of them as individuals. Both the creative process and the individual are far more complex than that. No work of art that I have created gives but the least idea of who I am as an individual. My entire oeuvre reveals part of me... but comes nowhere near to "expressing" myself... the whole me. There is a real danger in combining Romantic ideas of "self expression" with post-Freud notions of art as a means of analyzing or diagnosing the individual.
Secondly, you are making assumption and you are wrong. Freud is the last one I would consider and treat seriously. :D
Well, you can’t say we. LOL! I don’t look at art that way.Therefore, I said that I am free from unnecessary influence. My approach to art is influenced by my passion for psychology and healing with which goes freedom fo expression who we really are.Quote:
Whether we care to admit to it or not, every time we look at a work of art, part of our judgment is based upon comparison. This work of art stands out (or fails) in comparison to others in teems of handling of paint, color, line, contrast... etc... We compare the handling of all the elements to those as employed in other works we know. "Good" and "bad" and other value judgments are relative terms. We base these opinions upon our knowledge of the whole of art as we perceive it... and as T.S. Eliot noted, this concept changes every time we are confronted with a truly new or original artistic voice that enters into our notion of some imaginary canon of art.
Anyway, we are not on the same page. I hope that I will not need to repeat myself again.
We have to accept differences without imposing our thinking or beliefs upon others. :smile5:
I hope that we can laugh together. I couldn't resist.:lol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydaCSuujoBE

