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fandomsecrets2012-05-14 06:50 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2012-05-14 06:50 pm
[ SECRET POST #1959 ]
⌈ Secret Post #1959 ⌋
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Painting B (http://www.derekmccrea.50megs.com/images/chihuawa%20dog%20painting%202.jpg)
If you honestly can't say which is better, I will call you a liar or fifteen years old. I'm not sure which.
Or hell, to make it personal: Painting A (http://xanykaos.deviantart.com/gallery/26334998#/dazag3) and Painting B (http://xanykaos.deviantart.com/art/TF2-Pyro-171740092?q=gallery%3Axanykaos%2F311207&qo=13).
"Obviously you could say Painting A is stronger than Painting B based on perspective/color choices/etc.,"
So instead of using the word "better" you're using the word "stronger." That's being weaselly with the English language. If a painting is the stronger of the two, it's better. The reason that certain criteria like perspective and color choice exist is because they work. You seem to have this strange idea that the "rules" for what make something good or bad are these arbitrary things that people came up with and then tried to follow. It's the other way around--the rules are based on what works, and they provide a springboard. That's why you'll hear first-year art students whining about how their stupid professors make them draw everything "their way" instead of letting the students work in their "own style." And then a year, two, three, four, ten years down the line, something clicks, and the students realize that the "rules" were never limits, they were guidelines, and they understand why they had to learn to do it like that. And then they go off and make their own stronger style from it.
That's how a craft works.
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(Anonymous) 2012-05-15 01:03 pm (UTC)(link)I don't follow.
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(Anonymous) 2012-05-15 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)Yes, those things might "work" for certain people. That doesn't mean that everyone will agree with those color choices or perspective. Maybe even the majority of people who view the painting do but that doesn't mean they're "right".
Yes, I have a "strange idea" that the rules are arbitrary because they are, at least in art (obviously there are other contexts where rules are not arbitary and following them is important). Just because certain things work for a specific group of people and they've decided that's how they should be done does not make their opinions any more valid than anyone else's.
I was taught that art, in all its forms, is subjective. It exists to entertain people, to make people think, to introduce a new idea, it exists for several different reasons. You can say how well a particular work succeeded at its goal within a specific demographic, but you cannot say it's "good" or "bad" without taking into account the fact that different people with different viewpoints interpret things differently.
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(Anonymous) 2012-05-15 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)