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Art is all about expression..

Fri Oct 8, 2004, 11:45 PM
It doen't really matter how, but art (and photography included) is all about expression, Isn't it?

Take for example the wonderful work of Keith Haring
that was able to use his art (drawing and scalptures) to explore it as a language, a sign language.
What do I mean language?
One you can look at, and find yourself analyzing it in your own set of conceptions.
If you're American, British, Brazilian, or anywhere else on our planet. Every calture, any age. We can all see this abstract animated figures and attach feelings, explantions, scenes and identify. Not all of us see it the same way, but we can all understand it.

Isn't that waht art is suppose to do?
make us think, chalange us to ask ourselves how do we feel about what we see? Translate our vision to feelings.

Every little thing can be expressive.
But, do we all try to express something with our work?

When you see a picture of a red flower sparklling in the morning sun, is this expressive?
It is mostly beautiful to look at, but it can also be very expressive. It's a matter of presentation and the artist approach to taking the picture.
Making us see the scene like a dream, transfering the "early morning" feeling, can make us appreciate this beauty that is all around us and we don't take the time to look at it.
That's expression!

If a picture can make us look differently at the world, isn't it expressive?

It's all a matter of what we are trying to show.
Of our intentions while taking the pgotograph.
I don't care what kind of a camera you have, If you thought we all want to see your dog, or your dinner.
Put some creative effort into your work.
Think
Feel
Express
I don't care about technique, only intentions and resault.
If you wanted to show the connection between a father and a son, how do you do that?
Is taking a picture of an old man and a younger one good? Is it creative? will it chalange people to think? to feel?
Mybe...
But if you use symbols (like Haring does) and chalnge the viewer to understand, and feel - you made art.
Don't get me wrong, It still can be bad art, but It's art, and a very good start.

What do you think?

Yours, G
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~invariant Oct 8, 2004, 11:56:48 PM
Agreed.. Really well written. A topic we're sort of studying at school at the moment in theory of knowledge.. What language is and does it extend beyond words.. :) Something to think about
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~since1916 Oct 9, 2004, 12:10:22 AM
I agree. You stated what I thought most already knew, but then again alot do not. In the Photogrpahs and your works of art, you express it with feeling and a purpose, you have a "style" that is all your own, but that is all based on what YOU see and what others get out of it. Getting some kind of a feeling towards art is the greatest thing you can have, especially when you see one that pops out at you, and feelings for and towards art are feelings that have no words... they speak for themselves.

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~iagen Oct 9, 2004, 1:11:52 AM
You have a point, as always. :roll:





And yet I try not to say these sorts of things... Because many of my friends on dA already believe they are 'inferior' because their work has no 'meaning'... I would not want them to feel worse by enforcing my view that expression is 90% of a picture and skill, beauty and conditions make up the remaining 10%. I appreciate their works, meaning or no meaning, but I do know where you're coming from. :hmm:
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`gilad Oct 9, 2004, 1:16:15 AM
Good point.
"No meaning" shots can be very cool, only I don't consider them as art.
I'm not saying all my photographs are art, No way.
I have lots I shoot just for fun and beauty.
The question is where the line is drawen between a good photograph, and art.
G

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~Geshem Oct 9, 2004, 1:24:40 AM
i think its very very true.
but its not allways that easy.... look at da for example.
its an art site! but alot of ppl dont do what you said, so they dont do art?

i think its a very complicated subject.

ill try to use what you said now when i drew or taking picture of something :)
but this jurnal is something everyone should see ^-^

btw: have you ever thought of making films? i think youll be very good in it!
you have a good eye and a good talent. :hug:

yedidcha, geshem

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~Luke-- Oct 9, 2004, 1:51:05 AM
As I always said: Art is communication, and a way I really like. You can transport feelings/ideas/thoughts you wouldn't ever be able to say in plain words, no matter what language you were using or how long you talk.

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`gilad Oct 9, 2004, 2:00:24 AM
Being an Art site don't mean all here is art...
If you upload a picture of your door blurry, and out of focous it wiil be on DA.
Mybe even some will consider it art, I'm just saying what I think.

Art can be anyting to everyone, and it's not up to me to decide, only to state my views on it.

I did consider making films, and I even did some, but I'm very happy taking stills. It's a bigger challange for me :)
Thank you!

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A different Look At Israel
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*tsheva Oct 9, 2004, 2:53:01 AM
Amen! I made this very point several weeks ago in my journal because I read someone state that 2D isn't art. I disagreed. I think art should make you feel something. It must stir something within the artist and/or the viewer. I must say that I am always surprised that you like a lot of what I do because you are such an excellent photography with exciting concepts, your work stuns me into shame sometimes because I wish I could think of things to do differently. But then I remember that I'm new at this, and I primarily do it for me. This is my creative outlet. So art is in the eye of the beholder...I say.

Great discussion!
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~BtRBVer2 Oct 9, 2004, 5:48:34 AM
to be honest yes, _I_ don't think they do art if they just throw a picture of one of their friends up.

if they take it at a slightly different angle, and they applied a 'Solarizing' filter to it, maybe an argument could be made; i guess then at least it would be mediocre to bad art at least.

i totally agree with *gilad on this, and i'm really sick of people ABUSING the generosity this site offers by treating it like a blog and uploading every little peice of crap that falls out of their undies. art is all in the emotion that a picture creates, and that emotion is formed when you can see the finished picture before it's taken (or drawn, mad respect to the wielders of the pencil and pen!!!)

i'm certainly not the best photographer, but i'm trying, and this site really has helped me improve as my gallery will attest. so spread the word, get people to respect DA for what it really is.

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~ANinfan Oct 9, 2004, 6:22:49 AM
Language-----------Art(literature Not included) trancends the barriers of speech and allows ANYONE who speaks any language to Understand what is being said, Although the statment may be different to them than what was intended. I mean sometimes the Idea one is trying to get across is recieved as something different altogether. So long as it creates and introspective moment, or makes a person think about that which they would prefer to ignore. It's all in the transmission. The concept may be fantastic, but affects none but yourself if you cannot find a way to express it! Isn't art created out of a need to understand?
Is it the creation or the reception that makes it art?

Thanks again
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