I often have discussions about what makes for good photography and art. Its really quite exhausting sometimes. Art is something that happens that no one can predict. Art isn't a medium or a technique or even a skill. Art isn't predicated on any tangible factor actually. It cannot be taught, we can only teach the possible pathways for each of us to find art. There is no question that art needs to communicate on some level, so there fore a vocabulary needs to be achieved, but each vocabulary is different and each 'dialect' is important to the understanding of the vocabulary.
I'm not a gifted academician, in fact i find a great deal of the fault in understanding the true essence of the art experience to be clouded by academic thought----yet i truly believe in the need for the academic minds at work in the arts. As long as we understand that even academic thought itself is not art!
I believe in an artist's way. An artist is one who stands in the midst of everything and has the gall to make something beautiful, or thought provoking or both in a way that is of and within themself. It doesn't even have to be seen by anyone else to be art, yet lets hope it is eventually seen.
Art isn't a thing we do, it is something that happens to us! Its beautiful to embrace!
I'm not a gifted academician, in fact i find a great deal of the fault in understanding the true essence of the art experience to be clouded by academic thought----yet i truly believe in the need for the academic minds at work in the arts. As long as we understand that even academic thought itself is not art!
I believe in an artist's way. An artist is one who stands in the midst of everything and has the gall to make something beautiful, or thought provoking or both in a way that is of and within themself. It doesn't even have to be seen by anyone else to be art, yet lets hope it is eventually seen.
Art isn't a thing we do, it is something that happens to us! Its beautiful to embrace!