FutureFantasyDesign opened this issue on Sep 10, 2011 · 342 posts
Boni posted Thu, 15 September 2011 at 6:49 PM
In the upscale artworld there are the ... critiques ... or art gods who define what we, the ignorant publit are suppose to like. Follow the rules carefully or all you have is kitch or worse.
While in college although the "photorealism" trend was catching on rapidly ... non-representational art was prefered ... luckily I was in Wyoming where Charles Russell, Remington and James Bama were kings. But all the same there have been long periods where representational (realistic) art has been considered cliche. IF you were an illustrator you were commercial and not a real artist because you wanted to get paid for your work. Gee how terrable is that????
A lot of movements were ment to just push the boundries of art, redefine it and try to use it to view the world a little differently.
Good illustration is when the impressionists first started they were condemned for NOT being representational .... BUT then when they became overwhelmingly popular the traditinalists where dismissed as passe (even though schools still taught the techniques and some amazing works came from that ... see
They believe that is was a horrid mistake to move into the impressioist and them=n moden art movements. Extreme believfs, but very interesting.
Just food for thought. :)
Boni
Boni
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