Are you the kinda artsy fartsy person who can appreciate a painting, photograph or sculpture?

 

I love to pretend sometimes but the truth is I dont have a freaking clue. I see a photograph and either I like it or dont really care, I dont see the symbolism or real art core of it, I dont see how sculptures or paintings can be emotionally deep.

 

I came 1st out of 70 in my photography module last christmas-ish, but that was from looking for different meanings in photographs, none of which actually meant anything to me. I dont get it.

Love your honesty.

 

To tell the truth I love art and all but I can't always say anything smart about the painting or whatever. But who cares, I just enjoy it, no need to say anything. It even annoys me when some dude looks at the photograph and starts talking what did the artist really mean. I mean, how could we know?... Everybody understand art in a different way, that's the point and all.

:lol: this just made me remember one of my former teachers saying that i didn't have visual perception...oh my, how i hated her!

 

yeah i agree with Lera, everyone sees art in their way...i hate, for instance, when my Portuguese teacher tries to teach us a meaning of a poem, it's so stupid!! everyone can find their own meaning of that poem!! there's not one that's right

Hm.

 

I always look at art a a textbook, or technical point of view I guess...

 

If I see a 'nice' photo, my usual comments are like "oh, I like how you used the lines on the road to lead the eye out of the photo--", or, "nice use of low perspective" or, "that's nicely composed--good use of the rule of thirds" blah blah.

 

And it bugs me when, in photos, the horizon isn't level, it's blurry, over exposed, under exposed, blah blah blah. Even if it's supposed to have a lot of meaning or whatever--that really, eh, brings it down.

 

I usually can't get an idea or concept from a photo--they just look nice to me.

 

 

Oh yes, and it really, really bugs me when people take snapshots of really random stuff and call it art--taking a quick picture like uh, this:

 

 

ISN'T ART! IMO.

I hate that too...

I also hate those random twisted bars of metal that people put outside office buildings now. :(

Well......I think about this topic i think quite similar to Reilly.....I mean if we have to analyse a sculpture or a picture or something like that in school...yeah then I do it...but that's it...however...I don't have art as a subject in school anymore because i chose music......music is my art and that's it.....

I used to be really arty farty. I used to see everything as art. I'd stay up really late drawing, looking through obscure photography and I'd go to museums and stuff with my friends (I've a lot of SERIOUSLY arty friends) but all of a sudden I just lost my passion for it. I stopped drawing and didn't care about what I was seeing...I think this was all attached to what I was feeling at the time. But even now, I can't really appreciate art like I used to...

I was never really "into" art until I saw the Picasso gallery a couple of weeks ago. His lifes story seemed to have a real connection with his pictures. But other than that instance, i got nothing.

I like art... I'm very interesting in Design, Architecture. These subjects are the basics of my inspiration to draw cars.

I like paintings but they might be quite abstract... to be able to give the sense you want it to have.

Otherwise I'm impressed by ppl who can draw faces or landscapes, cartoons... Cos I'm not able to draw such a thing!!

 

but well, anyone knows that art have different senses... it changes according to ppl...

I can't tell I'm an artist... although I draw cars , write poems and draw abstract things... I'll say I just let my feelings come back to the surface of my mind... and my hand doesn't have any choice than listening to these feelings.

 

Anyway, anyone is an artist... anyone can be an artist.

Hm.

 

I always look at art a a textbook, or technical point of view I guess...

 

If I see a 'nice' photo, my usual comments are like "oh, I like how you used the lines on the road to lead the eye out of the photo--", or, "nice use of low perspective" or, "that's nicely composed--good use of the rule of thirds" blah blah.

 

And it bugs me when, in photos, the horizon isn't level, it's blurry, over exposed, under exposed, blah blah blah. Even if it's supposed to have a lot of meaning or whatever--that really, eh, brings it down.

 

I usually can't get an idea or concept from a photo--they just look nice to me.

 

 

Oh yes, and it really, really bugs me when people take snapshots of really random stuff and call it art--taking a quick picture like uh, this:

 

 

ISN'T ART! IMO.

 

Haha that is the point. It's like "What are these old dirty skates for you? What do you see?" and all. I like this one, made by one guy who just takes pics of walls, old dirty walls. This is my favourite one and it really is art I think. Everybody can see something in this picture, and everybody sees different things. It's like, one simple thing can be different for everyone who looks at it.

 

I see a city being flooded with pus...? :O

I was at this Salvadore Dali museoum in Spain, and it was like totally rad.

Like trees growing out of brasts and such, totally surreal.

Yeah, I would't say I have a deep " understanding" of arts and all the history bit. But I think that since there are so many types of arts and even more stipulations in each category of artists and their specialties... its hard to describe much more than " I like the way that looks" or " this kind calls to my attention"

 

 

But I have an interest not in the history or maybe even the artists themselves...but more like..if the painting touches me in some way... then that is art. Art to me has to be something emotive. If it does nothing more than sit there, it's nothing to me. But if it makes me wonder and calls to me at each glance... then that is the type of art I enjoy.

 

BUt I am neither good at it or anything like that. As in, I have artistic likes and dislikes, but no artistic qualties.

I LOVE painting and making things but I don't sit there and say "Oh, the red color means this..." I hate that. I choose colors just because I like them (don't tell my art teacher that) And this may sound really vain but I seem to only appreciate the art I'VE done. Maybe because I work so hard on it, but when I'm finished I think, "This. Is. AWESOME!"