Otis Bolsky Gallery: When It's a Photograph

[blaketake]

i'd hit that

[Bluwhodesign]

Ok using photography and photographic processes to make photos look like painting, sounds a bit backwards?

[cannoir]

@Bluwhodesign not only backwards but stupid because it compromises both the actual craft and the real vision of the piece.that's like using tracing paper and draw the countours of a picture and call it art.Sheneena's piece should be titled "google map art".

[Bluwhodesign]

@cannoir I wouldn't go as far as you in a particular critique, but much of the modern art I've seen makes me question what art really is or why bother at all; when skill compositions and subjects come second to any silly little gimmick the canvas is a random splash of color, it's clear that the galleries and museums are not producing our next masters and masterpieces but pompous over priced marketing campaigns. If only the curators would spend time on evaluation of what emotion this art creates

[cannoir]

@Bluwhodesign it depends tho?composition is basically architecture.the thought process, the different tonal values and most importantly the execution subject.too many of the stuff I see out there are "bland".It takes time to pick a theme, to research it,to find the appropriate palette and tonal values for it and frame it.this is what has disappeared.everyone focuses on some sort of "expression" or meaning.You know some ppl think the golden frame is going to make their piece look good lol!

[Bluwhodesign]

@cannoir -true on the golden frame comment, but you've brought up another subject one I see as utmost important. Communication (Expression) art critics always are looking deep into art trying to find emotion and meaning understanding. If you look hard enough you find meaning in a pile of crap or can which ever way the Tate may wish. But if it isn't pleasurable to common people if it doesn't carry some kind of visual message (regardless of how it's taken) does it really have value?

[Bluwhodesign]

@cannoir - I see many of the popular fine arts today doing things in very large formats or trying to create shock and metal discomfort by approaching subjects like death and pornography to create a buzz like that of the nude once created. I'm not impressed by these tactics, but there does seem to be a need for metal or emotional stimulation in art, what do you think about this shock art or exaggerated size? and what sort of art do you like?

[jbenettable]

graphic design.

[jbenettable]

I've never been a huge fan of photographs as art. I think its interesting in the sense that there is a strong impetus through technology to work content into the image. The capturing of the moment becomes the spontaneous, inventive part of the process and the art happens to the image sort of post production. I don't think the art then as art or mixed media which is what they are shown here are very developed or interesting.

[beautifulRHdrinker]

*yawn*... it's too "advanced"... i mean think it is rooted from your philosophical way of thinking... which is really advanced.

i wnt to take it, but i cn't tke it...

anyway i think there are no attempts of pop art anyway

[ZeeDeveel19]

it's not really just pop art anyway...

it's an exploration on photography and how the modern age,technology and thinking has influenced photography. there's no need for the attempt on pop art...

and if it's too advanced for you..well you need to digest art more evenly and better :D

[beautifulRHdrinker]

wow tnx for responding... anyway art studies are not that popular or maybe "advanced" in our country... : /

[ZeeDeveel19]

where your country is isn't really that much of a huge factor on your knowledge and thinking about art or anything in general really...

it's up to the individual to see what's out there in terms on what's new and the leading and avant garde...

as i said you need to digest more art and it's always up to you if you really want to :D

[beautifulRHdrinker]

i respect your opinion :) but my thinking deviates a little from yours sir/madam. this is what i think:

it would be easy for you to say that (maybe) because you are not somewhere in a third country world, where you are surrounded with people who see art only as some form of visual display or just plainly being eccentric...

[beautifulRHdrinker]

i mean is art only meant for a chosen few to be understood on? Cant everyone enjoy art, especially the deeper meaning of it? Its up to me to grasp arts message... it could be... but there are many other factors which makes an individual like me unable to reach even halfway towards understanding a deep thinking behind an artwork even if I wanted to...

[beautifulRHdrinker]

like the way of thinking in our third country world is way behind the way of thinking of an advanced country (or plainly because our concerns are different) ... so even if I wanted to, I couldnt, because there are chapters of thinking that i do not have the ability to explore on because our country lacks literature, social thinking, etc. about them... thus results to *yawn* ... hehe...

[thanks for discussing... appreciated ur reply:] i have a really long reply... hehehe..sorry

[cannoir]

@beautifulRHdrinker who told you that ppl in the 3rd world ( your analogy because in your mind ) perceive your art as "eccentric" though ? you accuse ppl of exactly what you are guilty of.didn't this country label most of the meaningful artistic work from the 3rd world as "primitive".I was enjoying your post until I read this drivel.

[beautifulRHdrinker]

@cannoir - no one told me that people in the 3rd world perceive "art" as "eccentric". No one exactly told me, that is. I just felt it and I just saw it...plainly common sense from what I saw from the behavior from many people who just

[beautifulRHdrinker]

@cannoir see art as eccentric, instead of seeing art as a heightening of senses, something to be respected...When they say, oooh he's an artist, they say oooh, he's living the eccentric life, which is plain bullshit, don't you think. Anyway, my point is: "yawn" it's too advanced. It's "too advanced" for me to grasp

[beautifulRHdrinker]

@cannoir this form/way of "social thinking"... my concerns/ state of mind/psychology are clearly different from the ones (including the philosophy behind the art) presented in the exhibit... is it a crime for me to "yawn" on this? And please help me understand instead of discriminating on me.

[sexlessparents]

i like her voice , really relaxing

[Veggieforce]

I think the "Illiad dos cobras" pointillist photo-painting of the guys wife is my fave.

which ones yours?

-and they really need a clip on mic, too much echo

[ZeeDeveel19]

i really like richard galpin's work, very rigourous and tideous and requires a good amount of craft, creative intuition and patience. or maybe because i'm doing interior architecture at university...hmmm

[luzsanjurjo]

Great commentary on the video.