Art is not just painting and drawing, so I figured this section is the most suitable. I have always wanted a place to discuss about art.
I have always thought if I can bring life into my works, I can make them more artistic. But recently I figured, art was never life. Art is just a beautification of life. A beauty that is far from the truth.
Reality is always uglier, more terrifying, depressing than how it is depicted in art. Fiction, for example, after all it is something to be published, to be received by a general population, hence the existence of censorship. There were never enough room for realism.
What's art to you? What's beauty to you? What is the true purpose of art? What is good art and what is bad art? What is low art and what is high art? What is art to life? What is the mission of art and the artist?
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General Art Discussion Thread.
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Nice topic. I agree with you, I think art is like a mirror inside one's soul. You can literally see, feel, hear, touch… taste even, the desires, dreams and passions of a person. It is the medium to make your dreams become more Real to you. There is nothing holding you back from achieving it, so you can create to your heart's content.
I do photography and write poetry sometimes, and whenever I finish a piece, I always feel like I have put myself inside of it. When I write poetry, sometimes it's to express complex emotions. I find that writing a line that just expresses how I feel and what I want calms me down, even if there's no way of getting what I want.
In a sense, it's a desire that never really left us from childhood. Why do we pretend to be airplanes and "fly" as a child? It's impossible, but it's enough as a kid to pretend you can do it. Why do we skew reality to express our desires? We know it will never be real, but it's enough to imagine it.
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I work in film and video production and I find it to be one of the most interesting and captivating areas of art out there. From the conceptualizing, to the production of a film with dozens, sometimes hundreds of people pouring their artistic ability into the piece, to the finished product which represents the art of storytelling, photography in motion, acting, etc etc.. it's an amazing process to be part of, especially working on a large feature film. There's not much that I've experienced that compares to that many people working that passionately, sometimes for little to no money (in the low budget arena), towards a common artistic goal.
I'll probably add more later but I wanted to pitch this in early.
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Yes, let's discuss filming!
If I had the money I would buy a Phantom Flex.
Slowmotion has never been so beautiful…
Who exactly is Mumbo?
It's OFFICIAL, UsoppXNami 4ever.
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I may not be too knowledgeable about pure visual art and artists, but it is a phenomenon that I love and respect. Art in general interests me as the closest we'll ever get to being able to understand each others' points of view. Each piece, no matter what the medium, can tell us many things about an artist's perspective from their background to their mindset. One really pours their lives into artwork.
Personally, I'm a big fan of abstract art. I used to be one of those people who thought it was worthless and reproducible by anyone, but I was completely in the wrong. It's a very unique and energetic type of art. I've taken to drawing a lot of it, myself, though nothing really too serious. I love the raw emotion I can put into it, the way it can effect the state of mind and, most of all, what it can tell me about myself.
One of the more fun things I did was the creative project for my Jazz History class last semester. I decided to just take one simple topic and keep drawing it differently, in the way that jazz musicians can take a standard, play it many different times and yet still make it a unique experience each time. I ended up using tic tac toe as my topic and ended up with 30 different drawings based around it. I'm actually kind of proud of how it turned out. It really taught me a lot about the meaning of avant-garde as well as the general artistic process (it was the first serious artistic effort I've made since grade school). Maybe I should scan some of it for shits and giggles.
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@Sonic:
Yes, let's discuss filming!
If I had the money I would buy a Phantom Flex.
[qimg]http://www.coated.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Phantom-Flex-video-camera.jpg[/qimg]Slowmotion has never been so beautiful…
Hahaha, I believe one of my old instructors from college got to beta test that last year. That's the one that shoots 2800fps at 1080p, right? drool
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I've always wondered what is art, and what is entertainment? From non-artist's point of view, is art only something that will make you bored, and entertainment something you like to spend your time with?
No, I don't think so… I think almost everything can be seen as art. An object that performs a function can also be a work of art. But I don't know what ultimately makes a piece of art good or high. Perhaps it's only a matter of opinion?
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http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Sex-Erotica-Free-Gallery-Erotic-Art-Pictures.htm
So what is the difference between pornography and eroticism?
Pornography is always sexually explicit. It is not necessarily arousing (particularly if the people involved do not appear to be truly enjoying themselves), nor is pornography genuinely interested in artistic merit.
Good quality eroticism, unlike pornography, is generally less sexually explicit and always sexually arousing. Eroticism is more artistic than pornography in capturing the beauty, shape and form of the human body and its deeper portrayal of our emotions, lust and desire. Good erotic art portrays good healthy sexuality and sex; which is joyful, exciting, intimate, interesting and pleasurable.
What do you think?
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Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.
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But recently I figured, art was never life.
Unless your an animator, then it's nothing but life. Literally and metaphorically
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I don't like my art unless it has some life or personality to it.
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Unless your an animator, then it's nothing but life. Literally and metaphorically
Perhaps I should convert to being animator.
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Get ready to give up crosshatching lol
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I wonder if it's wrong to put more focus on eyes, mouths, hands, feet and hair than on backgrounds, because lord knows I find Kubo to be very lazy.
That, and I still can't draw a fucking hallway from a partial angle.
I think my backgrounds can be dull and I still won't give a shit if the characters in question are doing stuff with their hands and/or mouths and what not. -
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while funny, there's more animation in a yogi bear cartoon than that
if you're gonna post an example, let me show you how it's done SON
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Breath-taking.
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Is that Renoir? The dynamics of the piece are all very Renoir.
Edit: Nope, way off. Diego Velázquez. Completely zoomed in, I really get the motion blur Renoir feel, but zoomed out it's much more straight forward. Also, much darker. I guess I need to bone up on my artists.
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while funny, there's more animation in a yogi bear cartoon than that
if you're gonna post an example, let me show you how it's done SON
Shit, I think I just grew a beard just from watching this. This owns hard.
I've always wondered what is art, and what is entertainment? From non-artist's point of view, is art only something that will make you bored, and entertainment something you like to spend your time with?
Same here. But I think even stuff, that is considered enterainment, can be considered art. If it contains a message. I've also always wondered how people who work in a museum for instance, decide on what is art, worthy to be exhibited and what is just funny lines on canvas, that can be thrown away.
Especially when it comes to abstract stuff. I remember one borderline example we talked about in art class a couple of years ago:[hide]
Kazimir Malevich, The Black Square. An Icon of modern Art.
Well… I sure as hell didn't get it.
Our teacher described to us, that it's exactly this feeling of it not making any sense, was the point of it. The artist liberated his art from the burden, which comes with trying to give it any meaning. And with it made us question what is and isn't art.[/hide] -
Anybody bored and feel like designing an album cover for my mixtape? You'll have pretty much complete freedom with it. I just don't have photoshop and I suck at drawing and picture cropping.
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