corky13
June 15th, 2005, 12:22 PM
A friend of mine posted this over at gfx-artist (reilanchan ... shes a darn good artist so you maybe want to check out some work ;) ) and i thought it was a great contribution to the comunity down there so i asked her if i could quote her in here...
... well I'm not sure how to start.
Some of you, especially my friends may have recognized that I wasn't online here that much in the last weeks and I wasn't very active. (Published hardly any work.)
Since I was very active for more than a half year now some of my friends were wondering and asking me what was going on.
My reason was hard to explain. I wasn't around because I had to think about something: art.
OK what was going on? First of all I have to say that it's not easy for me to form this in words but I'll try:
In the past I was told by many people how art has to be. Some of them didn't know much about art, others were 'elites'. But then I met a person who really made me think. He said "who cares how art is made? It's the feeling that is important." He also told me that I should try to overpaint something; it would help me to discover more ways to express myself.
He actually made me think the most because as I tried out what he had suggested I saw that no matter if you overpaint or not (for instance) you still need skills to do what you do. We know that many good and famous artists use this technique, but their images look so incredible fantastic that I for instance as I tried never was able to reach this level.
Then, finally I got a new art teacher and he gave me a fine book in which I read today. The authors name is Gombrich. He also wrote that there is no art in general, there's only the artist. And every artist has reasons for doing what he does.
OK it took me a long time to understand this all, and I admit that in the past I let others influence my opinion about art too much.
I myself was hunted down in the past by a minority of people for some stuff I did in art that I thought it was a crime to do so. And so I thought that others deserved it to be hunted down as well.
Sure, created art can be discussed over and over but I mainly think that some people who complain about beautiful pieces which may not have been created in the general way maybe are jealous, and so they hunt it down.
(Because some of he people who hunted me down in the past admitted that they were jealous of me gaining more attention for my work than them, and because my methods to work were unusual they thought it was necessary to hunt me down.)
I hope that maybe this thread coudl help each other, as Gombrich said we should try to understand the artists decisions. So I'd like to know more about photography or vector art in order to understand it better, because I finally understood that it doesn't matter how you work.
So okay... maybe this topic helped out in some way... at least I feel better now :)
So what do you think about this topic ? I think shes right in many ways even if i don`t agree 100% with her... its just so that I wouldn`t do overpaints, but surely there is some great art done by overpainting...
please post your thoughts...
... well I'm not sure how to start.
Some of you, especially my friends may have recognized that I wasn't online here that much in the last weeks and I wasn't very active. (Published hardly any work.)
Since I was very active for more than a half year now some of my friends were wondering and asking me what was going on.
My reason was hard to explain. I wasn't around because I had to think about something: art.
OK what was going on? First of all I have to say that it's not easy for me to form this in words but I'll try:
In the past I was told by many people how art has to be. Some of them didn't know much about art, others were 'elites'. But then I met a person who really made me think. He said "who cares how art is made? It's the feeling that is important." He also told me that I should try to overpaint something; it would help me to discover more ways to express myself.
He actually made me think the most because as I tried out what he had suggested I saw that no matter if you overpaint or not (for instance) you still need skills to do what you do. We know that many good and famous artists use this technique, but their images look so incredible fantastic that I for instance as I tried never was able to reach this level.
Then, finally I got a new art teacher and he gave me a fine book in which I read today. The authors name is Gombrich. He also wrote that there is no art in general, there's only the artist. And every artist has reasons for doing what he does.
OK it took me a long time to understand this all, and I admit that in the past I let others influence my opinion about art too much.
I myself was hunted down in the past by a minority of people for some stuff I did in art that I thought it was a crime to do so. And so I thought that others deserved it to be hunted down as well.
Sure, created art can be discussed over and over but I mainly think that some people who complain about beautiful pieces which may not have been created in the general way maybe are jealous, and so they hunt it down.
(Because some of he people who hunted me down in the past admitted that they were jealous of me gaining more attention for my work than them, and because my methods to work were unusual they thought it was necessary to hunt me down.)
I hope that maybe this thread coudl help each other, as Gombrich said we should try to understand the artists decisions. So I'd like to know more about photography or vector art in order to understand it better, because I finally understood that it doesn't matter how you work.
So okay... maybe this topic helped out in some way... at least I feel better now :)
So what do you think about this topic ? I think shes right in many ways even if i don`t agree 100% with her... its just so that I wouldn`t do overpaints, but surely there is some great art done by overpainting...
please post your thoughts...