Apropos of this, I've been reading a lot of art stuff lately in the ongoing
effort to become a better person. (The only cause worth fighting for is the
lost cause.) It has come to my attention that in a great deal of the
digested discourse on the, ah, manual arts, that is, drawing, painting,
etc., the number of times I've come across the admonishment that artists
should not try to imitate reality is fairly astonishing. Even Van Gogh says
in several of his letters to his brother Theo that it's not necessary to
recreate the exact color of something, but rather to create the color that
best represents that something. Yet in photography, we are severely
censured by large numbers of critics, real and self-styled, if we deviate
even slightly from what they believe to be a spot-on authentic rendering of
a spot-on authentic scene.
Painters are encouraged to give flight to their vision of something. We are
kicked in the (metaphorical) nuts if we try to do the same.
Keep fighting the good fight, AG!
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If you don't want to see what goes into the hot dog, then turn away
> and delete this post.
>
> This is the picture untouched. Straight out of camera:
>
> http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=17677
>
> This is the picture after extensive artistic license has been used:
>
> http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=17671
>
> The danger in giving this is that you will judge the picture
> differently and apply your own version of reality to the editing. The
> first picture is the starting point. This is the empty canvas that I
> had on my screen. Each artist will apply paints differently and come
> up with different interpretations. This one happens to be mine.
>
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