Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Do you think that an image created with vue d'esprit and poser is art?

joramnet opened this issue on Dec 09, 2003 ยท 49 posts


dogsbody posted Tue, 09 December 2003 at 4:17 PM

Just because it isn't an original question doesn't mean it shouldn't be asked again. Although, to be honest, I've read so much cr@p about what constitutes and doesn't constitute art that if I cared what anyone else thought I'd probably have shot myself by now. Having been blessed with an inability to draw (although I'd love to be able), I do use Poser to imitate/lampoon/enhance/distort 'art' that I've seen others perform. Sometimes I even use it to try out stuff I've thought of all by myself. Interestingly, there was something on the TV last night mentioning an 'in' artform in the early 20th century known as 'readymade', in which the 'artist' made a piece out of commonly available materials. Hey, that isn't radical, our schoolkids routinely rip up magazines or chocolate wrappers to make collages and stuff. Not what most Poserhaters would call art (unless they have school aged kids, of course, in which case substitute 'Genius' for 'Dumbass'). But the level of substitution in 'readymade' was slightly more robust. The example quoted on the program was 'a bicycle wheel in conjunction with a kitchen chair'. My, how exciting can we get? This art form was not a minor abberation, it was a major art movement. So I guess the best way of defining 'art' is to do what makes YOU feel good, or fulfilled, or disturbed, or whatever it is that makes you want to do what you do. I wouldn't consider displaying my soiled underwear or a list of all of my lovers 'art', but it made someone rich and famous. And the person responsible for those displays didn't give a sh!t about what anyone else thought about their work. Nope, Poser, Bryce, Vue, ripped up newspaper, photos, chairs, bicycle wheels, scrapyards, box of pastels, broken pencil and an envelope - the art is in the brain, in the communication