Re: Please explain "Still Life With Guitar" of Picasso


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> Bill wrote:
>> Since a camera can do a better job of reflecting reality, many
>> artists believe it is pointless to try to compete with them. So they
>> don't try. Instead they try to paint a non- real world or their
>> impressions of the real world.
>
>
> Bill, you are vastly wrong on this point. The camera flattens
> and distorts, eliminating the nuances found in shadow areas, and the
> human eye sees more colors than color film ever could. You may be
> familiar with art history, but if you draw from life for a few years
> you can really appreciate this fact.
>
The point about art, be the medium photography or paint, is Not to
represent "true" reality, but to offer an alternative to the viewer with
an intention to engage in a form of communication.
Therefore photographers who strive to achieve technical components
which are an attempt to present a picture as close as possible to
real vision are technicians, if that is all they are about.
Similarly, painters who try to do the same - and I can't think of any within
the known world of art - are also technicians.
Even the few "photo-realist" images that I have seen have had some kind
of agenda, some effort to subtly present the world as it is, but suggesting
all kinds of other worlds.
Landscapist efforts of any note are reconstructions, assemblies of the
world in a more ideal sense, and usually have a composition at their heart.
Realism is no criticism on it's own, but it tries to slur by suggesting that
all a work is is a simple copy of reality.
This may be true for beginners, who are struggling to master the challenges
of their medium, but professionals and even practiced amateurs need not
worry about such accusations, since those accusations never come with
any argument of any worth.

--
Thur


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