I often find that people are not happy with just ‘art’ on blogs and suggest people pad out their artwork with an essay. I think sometimes you do have something to say as an artist about a piece but I think sometimes you really just want people to make their own assessments on something and you want the art to tell it’s own story without words. I saw someone say the other day ‘people expect artists to tell a story with their art but they don’t expect story writers to paint a picture with their story’. Why is it we don’t value the art of painting as much as we seem to value words?
Genuinely intrigued on this one.
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I think they need a very Better way of storing Images to Blocks as easily as POSTing ARTicles ... 🥓
I did some research on why abstract art is the least popular form of art some time ago. In a article I found, it said that when it comes to interpreting art, the general public is afraid of being wrong and sounding stupid when talking about art that they like. I think they want to be told what they are “supposed” to see helps to make them feel safe from being judged on their opinion. In today’s world few people want to be seen as individuals, and think for themselves. They fear not being excepted by others.
That’s very interesting I’m not sure everyone is thinking anything haha . I have a funny story about a famous photographer actually I’ll share when on a keyboard. A lot of it is a scam rly
I think art is about feeling. If it makes YOU feel something as a viewer or owner that is all that matters. It is like singing it has to connect to an emotion. 1 mullion ppl can hate it but if one connects you have a buyer. There is too much great art around for ppl to buy just cause something’s nice or someone’s talented.
I agree completely. A picture is worth a1000 words, but if the viewer doesn’t understand the art language it’s gibberish to them. Some people believe the process of creating is more important then how the final art makes them feel, and some only think about how much it might be worth. There are as many way to look at something as there are eyes to look at it.
Some people want to know if oil was used in the painting process
Omg, those two idiots. All they did was ruin the front cover, not the painting itself.
You know the one thing I’m proud of London for is having all these free art galleries and museums and a couple of losers want to make a ‘statement’ And ruin it for everyone else. If they want to make a point through art why not actually paint something.
They were funded too, probs Soros, and what's the bet they will be upping the security in those 'free museums and galleries' after this. They are just XR rehashed. How about their wasting of 'food' to highlight starvation lol. Talk about priviledged. But as me and my friend were pointing out the other day do they even have Heinz soup in places like Somalia? product placement much. I also wonder if Heinz will use this in their next ad campaign. We'll see.
I didn’t even know we still had Heinz canned soup lol not been down that aisle for a long time
Crap I paint in oils they will be coming for me next 😂😂😂 you know what if they want to glue themselves to the wall they should hAve been allowed to, leave them there as long as they want i day, it would be a more creative live exhibit than throwing a tin of soup over an old masters work.
I don’t.
I also just do what I feel ppl can choose to upvote or not but it does seem a bit of a strange etiquette to me that ppl expect a few paragraphs of waffle to go with every painting. Sometimes i think you could copy and paste a load of random shit from a word producer and no one would notice.
Yeah.ha ha. … that is very true.
Random words get massive upvotes on Blurt, Hive and Steemit. It’s kind of a big joke.
I think it's more a case of making the post more interesting for readers and one of the best ways to create big interest is to film the process. Everyone loves watching aa painting being created, look how successful films of painting in real time are on YT. Maybe a time lapse type thing if you're a slow worker. Give it a try maybe?
But is that more interesting? Lol we don’t look at how van gough created the sunflowers he just painted it and people write books on the meaning of it without even really having any idea. The piece stands alone. The Mona Lisa is one of the most talked about paintings in the world and no one even knows who its of, they defo don’t know if the artist was having a shit day, saw some clouds, had a coffee that day or not lol that’s the kind of stuff I see ppl write. You don’t read a book and expect to see a visual diary of how the writer wrote it lol. I mean I can see how some people enjoy watching the process to learn but that’s rly more ‘teaching’ than acrually creating art. I just find it weird it’s the only thing in the whole creative sector that someone’s expected to explain lol. You don’t ask dancers to show all their learning process and how the got the choreography wrong a few times first for example. I do think sometimes there is something to write but not always and ppl just end up writing bullshit to fill up words. I saw it allll the time on hive cause they just wanted upvotes. Is it really necessary if it doesn’t come naturally in order for someone to appreciate a painting. It takes away a lot of self enquiry too.
Ever heard the term 'pearls before swine' medear hahahaha. Just throw some pig swill in with the paintings and see what happens
Personally I don’t have enough space for a time lapse and often go back to paintings over months I can appreciate it as a form of art in itself rly but to me it doesn’t add any actual value to the finished product and I think it was cool to begin with but now ppl are kind of over it surely? I do like the art tutorials where ppl can paint along with someone but like I said that’s more teaching than it is creativity. Teaching is great don’t get me wrong it’s just a separate thing.
I mean these are my opinions and I’m interested in peoples opinions. But I wonder if it’s in essence cause none artists don’t think a painting alone is enough ‘effort’ or ‘value’ even if it took days.
Personally, it's just how etiquette tends to be. Before Hive and Blurt, the Steem etiquette was always to add text to images to give more context to the image. It was frowned upon to just upload images with no text added to them. I don't know why the etiquette was that way, all I know is that it has been enforced since Steem began.
I think they keep using terms like "low quality post" or "low effort post" just to justify their downvotes
Yeah it’s ok for the down voters to put a twitter link or a meme. Somehow it transforms into high quality when it’s their post 😅
Exactly, there is always a double standard for the ones with high voting power. They're absolute hypocrites.
Your allowed multiple accounts also but not if your a minion. Then it’s bad 🤣
a great piece of art ,. it still is to me ,. even do the artist is a bit of a dickhead these days .
In a same way somehow U2 sounded so much better in the 80ths .
See what i am getting at ? ,.. idolizing ,. relating to ,. i won't upvote or even admit that i just saw some marvelous art ,. if you oppose any of my personal views in any way ,.. we grave for info on that , while loosing any appreciation we might have on just the art .
Admit , we all do it , i ain't no saint either ,.. soap series brought us there ,.. and getting spoiled on a overload with everyone's medium quality art doesn't really help much either . ,.. not to speak of ai ,..
Lack of imagination probably also plays a big part on the why .
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Yeah I mean how do you put text with ai art ? It’s hard to make a paragraph around ‘ I entered three random words to a generator’, people seem to manage though
I did a post on ai picture creation ,.. a subject to debate over , no matter how good you think the art is .
The ai works on input , our input , society's input ,. beautiful pictures indeed sometimes ,.. but will never be more then that , there was no original genius thought to create it ,.. biased and programmed by the masses .
If i , as a white male westerner make a artwork on the words history suffering and slave trade ,.. can i then without getting in problems use people of all sorts of skin color ? That's a hard one ,. i could get burned at the stake ,.. i might better explain myself clear if i do ,. as only having a certain hairstyle could already get you in trouble these days .
A ai won't be judged like that ,.. as it is just a machine , making a picture ,..
No need to do anymore then one post on , as the words they use for the art are no more intelligent then the person who wrote them . It's the black queens lying mirror , showing you what you want to see .
Just call your artwork as a "Happy accident' and that is it. Let the rest of the interpretations come from the audience or the buyer. 👍
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