What is an interesting situation is when one does not set out to intentionally create art yet the results are judged artistic. Accidental art?
In my youth I smoked a lot of Gauloises Disques Bleu and crushed quite a lot more because the packet was stupidly soft. Later I switched to Gitanes, which were a better smoke. The Gitanes packet was a piece of pictorial Art, and harder to crush. I read some existentialist novels, but we never hit it off. In fact, none of that improved me in any way, so I gave it all up and bought a Nikon. I never had a beret, though. Maybe ... ?Photography is not an art, although there is an art to photography, and you can use photography, artfully or inartfully, to create art. If you are not using photography to create art, then you do not need to wear a beret. I use photography artfully to create art, some of which is mediocre and some of which is good, but I don't wear a beret when doing so. I reserve wearing a beret to when I am listening to jazz and reading existentialist novels. I have never smoked Gauloises Bleu, so I am not authentic. That is what this photographer told me during a portfolio review. I told him he wasn't all that authentic either so we were even.
Isn't that exactly what happened to Eugene Atget?What is an interesting situation is when one does not set out to intentionally create art yet the results are judged artistic. Accidental art?
Gitanes? I had a Gitanes road bike back in the early 80s.
The sub-conscience can come into play, I guess. Perhaps one can create art though just being.
Love it! Just turned 68...not that old, but no one is calling me about extending the warantee on this bod -- so with limited engine life left, might as well make it a performance!Yes, it would be classified as “Performance Art.” I figure that much of my life falls into that genre and I have certainly received my share of critical feedback.
Love it! Just turned 68...not that old, but no one is calling me about extending the warantee on this bod -- so with limited engine life left, might as well make it a performance!
Love it! Just turned 68...not that old, but no one is calling me about extending the warantee on this bod -- so with limited engine life left, might as well make it a performance!
Running is out since the knees cannot take the impact pounding of running from many years of skiing. I do not want to replace the knees, see post 158 for my solution.
Spent my birthday hiking out after three nights in the redwoods with the 4x5. Most of the hiking is along and in a creek, with footing being very unstable at times in the creek. One has to keep the pack centered while one's feet are going in many different directions as you make your way against, across or with the current. Ankle to 2.5 feet deep, so not bad...backpacking up there a month ago with 3x the flow was a bit more interesting (another foot deeper and a lot more force)....Excerise is the lube like we occasionally have to use in our old cameras (Keeping this on a photographic theme.)
Spent my birthday hiking out after three nights in the redwoods with the 4x5. Most of the hiking is along and in a creek, with footing being very unstable at times in the creek. One has to keep the pack centered while one's feet are going in many different directions as you make your way against, across or with the current. Ankle to 2.5 feet deep, so not bad...backpacking up there a month ago with 3x the flow was a bit more interesting (another foot deeper and a lot more force)……
I have never been under any misapprehensions that my work is "Art", indeed I believe that photography is craft.
Understandable. If one does not consider themself an artist, then one's work would not be considered art by oneself. ..makes sense.
All art is also craft...art is just not limited to craft.
YMMD, and probably should.
Exactly. Art is craft taken further. One of many possible definitions. Those years of practicing drawing as a craft, I assume, served as a base for making art. It is all too easy to see craft as art and to see art as craft. We can draw all the dividing lines in the sand we want, then the tide comes in.Producing art generally, but not always, involves the application of a craft. I draw and consider much of what I produce as “art,” yet, I worked as a mechical draftsman for lots of year before computers and practiced that “craft” producing hundreds of drawings with pencil on vellum. I wouldn’t consider any of those as “art.”
Exactly. Art is craft taken further. One of many possible definitions. Those years of practicing drawing as a craft, I assume, served as a base for making art. It is all too easy to see craft as art and to see art as craft. We can draw all the dividing lines in the sand we want, then the tide comes in.
The making of art requires craft. Even when there seems to be a lack of such in the artwork. An artist can work painstakingly at mixing just the exact shade of a color to use in a work and just as hard mixing and determining adjacent hues to create the effect he or she intends. Rothko might be a good example. And even then craft can fall by the wayside by using material that might change and deteriorate over time. De Kooning labored over the composition of his paintings for weeks and months, mostly lost to the casual viewer. Great craft can be readily accessible, great art can require more effort.
Museums have accepted, but rank and file have not! There still is an asterisk next to your name
One of my favorite art-related sites is This Is Colossal (http://thisiscolossal.com/), a blog that features art from across a variety of mediums and artists from all over the world. I find it helpful in discovering new artists and also motivating in getting me to produce more work of my own.
A posting from June 30, “Modern Women/Modern Vision’ Celebrates the 20th Century’s Most Influential Photographers,” covers an exhibition currently up at the Denver Art Museum. In introducing the show, editor Grace Elbert says:
”One of the more accessible mediums, photography has long been an entry point for those relegated to the periphery of the art world…”
That raised an eyebrow. Really? Yes, photography has, historically, fought for acceptance in the art world but that has changed over the past 50-100 years. Or has it?
Do you feel that you are “relegated to the periphery of the art world” because you are a photographer?
And when she refers to photography and “one of the more accessible mediums,” accessible for whom? For the photographer or the viewer?
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