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Post by blackmutt on Oct 23, 2017 1:06:32 GMT
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Post by hmca on Oct 23, 2017 2:01:06 GMT
blackmutt ......that's a question I often struggle with myself. So much of art is subjective. Your post nudged me to see if I could find any information that might help with this question. Wikipedia gives a rather comprehensive overview while DPS presents an article that receives a number of comments questioning the author's position. I belong to a local artists's guild. Often I would go to one of their exhibits and question myself as to why a judge would award a certain image. To me it made no sense....it didn't resonate with me. This past year one of my images received an award for the "Best in Monochrome". I said to my husband that my picture was one of those that I would have been shaking my head about and asking "WHY"?? just a few years back. I am sure many people looking at my picture had the same question. I only share this because I think it illustrates, to me anyway, that so much of "Fine Art Photography".....like all art is subjective. So while the pinecone might represent fine art for some people....it doesn't to me. But that doesn't make me right....or wrong, in my view anyway. What do you think?? You started a great topic by the way....hope others will chime in here!
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Post by blackmutt on Oct 23, 2017 10:09:45 GMT
I totally agree. I had visited an art show this past saturday. I would say that 90% of them i would not have on my wall. They were all photos taken at a specific place during a one year period. And two of the photos were mine!  . I entered some photos at the state fair and the one that won best in show, i said really. And it was mine!!?? I laughed all the way home! I feel that as i fine tune as you mentioned, my taste has changed? Perhaps. A some of my photos i look back pn i say yuk and a year ago i loved. I dont even like!! Art is completely subjective. Some i dont even understand and i dont like to have think about what the artist is trying to say. A photo has to grab me right away or i move on. The other side of this recent art show had large works by "known" artists and i blew through that exhibit in five minutes. Waaaay to abstract for me. Again i don't like art that i cant tell what it is. Sorry Hence we come full circle. "Fine art" ? |
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Post by cats4jan on Oct 23, 2017 14:32:39 GMT
I often wonder how something becomes a multi-million dollar art piece and another thing ends up in a yard sale.
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Post by Lillias on Oct 23, 2017 14:59:55 GMT
I am probably being very simplistic here and my remarks are NOT intended to hurt or insult anyone but I sometimes think it’s like ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’. If some ‘eminent in the field’ person declares something, be it art or fine wine etc; to be wonderful all the lemmings follow suit whether they really think that or not.
I’ve seen so called ‘wine buffs’ who bore people to death discussing the various qualities of grapes or where they are grown, tested on TV programmes declaring a certain wine to be all that’s wonderful when they have really been given some cheap plonk from a Supermarket shelf dressed up in a more expensive bottle. Kind of says it all really.
Seems to me what you like in any art form, all comes down to personal taste.
As for paying millions for a piece of art when people in this world are starving or homeless – well I just don’t have words for that…
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Post by ritage on Oct 23, 2017 15:21:32 GMT
There also is fashion in art and I believe it influences our personal subjective taste over time whether we realize it or not.
On my own walls only a single picture has survived for more than 30 years.
Rita
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Post by whippet on Oct 24, 2017 13:44:50 GMT
I have the same opinions as every one of you.
My first thought when I saw the photo at the top, was - what on earth is that.
Thank you, hmca for clearing that up for me.
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. I entered some photos at the state fair and the one that won best in show, i said really. And it was mine!!?? I laughed all the way home!
