Re: Why compete with a photo?

In Reply to: Why compete with a photo? posted by CobaltBlue on 04/27/00 at 4:47 PM:

CobaltBlue. Painting is an art of communication, it is a visual art that mediates something to the viewer through the eyes of the artist. The language is reality, because everyone knows it. You missed the point, if you think that "realistic painting" is only about showing reality. Photographs are a rational tool, without emotion, and to be honest, I trust more a painting than a photo. On another note, it may be a termed close-minded to not consider abstract painting as ART, but it is the case with me, namely because it destroys communication, and leaves the painter with nothing more than superficial physical movements of the hand, with no intellectual or emotional consideration. It kills language. If I were to write a poem like this :
asdt dfgdf gdfg rewrwe yu
werwer werwe rewre wer
werer werer3 2rrggg dfggg
ssdfd sdfdfsf sdfdfs

as opposed to this:

"She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies."

I should rather be "close-minded" and true, than "Open-minded" and be it for the mere sake of not being it.
Thank you.... E.A.

P.S. No offense


: What's left to express or to prove through ultra realistic painting?

Re: Why compete with a photo? CobaltBlue
 
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