Poll: artistry

[amolitor]

Lew, I meant only to gently tease, not to offend. I apologize.

 

[sashbar]

Guys, stop arguing and watch the BBC Documentary (p.1 and p.2) that I have posted a couple of days ago in the "Articles of Interest". You will learn something interesting about a relation between an artist and a photographer. You will learn, amongst other tings, why the greatest Reneissanse artists like Vermeer, Caravagio etc (who were apparently the greatest painters that ever lived and semi-gods according to many) were in fact the first photographers on our Planet Earth.

(The thread "Well Worth Watching")

 

[Steve5D]

No one, at least none of the posts I read, implied that technical execution was irrelevant or unimportant but only that technical issues were subordinate to artistic goals.

You presented the poll, though, as an either/or affair. Why not include a choice which encompasses both?

 

[JacaRanda]

If someone could pick one ability: 1) the ability to be an artist who can create interesting, wonderful, amazing, insightful pictures or 2) to be a superb technician with the skills to create pictures that were technically perfect, what choice would most people make?

First one, all day long.

I would pick #1. However, in the majority of pictures I take I seem to strive for #2.

Sadly, #1 is just not in me :no smile:

Jacaranda, my friend, it is in you. It has always been in you. But it is closer to the surface when we are little, and we forget so very much as we get older. The artist comes out when we play, when we have fun, when we dream, and when we don't care who's watching. So go play, and let your inner child comes out. Play because it's fun. Take your camera and jump around. Put on a slow shutter and spin in a circle. Put it on burst mode and chase the dog down the path. Shoot out-of-focus lights because they are pretty. Go play - and allow the artist in you to peek out.

Wish there were a "Love" button for this :heart:

I totally agree. As I read it, I was wishing for a double like button.

 

[JacaRanda]

If someone could pick one ability: 1) the ability to be an artist who can create interesting, wonderful, amazing, insightful pictures or 2) to be a superb technician with the skills to create pictures that were technically perfect, what choice would most people make?

I would pick #1. However, in the majority of pictures I take I seem to strive for #2.

Sadly, #1 is just not in me :no smile:

Jacaranda, my friend, it is in you. It has always been in you. But it is closer to the surface when we are little, and we forget so very much as we get older. The artist comes out when we play, when we have fun, when we dream, and when we don't care who's watching. So go play, and let your inner child comes out. Play because it's fun. Take your camera and jump around. Put on a slow shutter and spin in a circle. Put it on burst mode and chase the dog down the path. Shoot out-of-focus lights because they are pretty. Go play - and allow the artist in you to peek out.

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!

These words will be copied and pasted in at least a few places. On an ART piece I create seems appropriate. I promise to share once complete.

 

[robbins.photo]

How is there even a wrong answer to this? How can you debate or dispute how someone feels about themselves?

I gave an honest answer and got flak from it.

we don't call it "flak" anymore.
it is now called "artistic recrimination"

Which I'm guessing is far less likely to bring down an incoming bomber.

 

[robbins.photo]

Guys, stop arguing and watch the BBC Documentary (p.1 and p.2) that I have posted a couple of days ago in the "Articles of Interest". You will learn something interesting about a relation between an artist and a photographer. You will learn, amongst other tings, why the greatest Reneissanse artists like Vermeer, Caravagio etc (who were apparently the greatest painters that ever lived and semi-gods according to many) were in fact the first photographers on our Planet Earth.

(The thread "Well Worth Watching")

Ok, so if we do can we then start arguing about the BBC documentary?

Also, wondering exactly what camera settings I need to use to reach "semi-god" status. Is it somewhere in the menu system? Natural, Vivid, Semi-God?

One other thing, what if we already had relations with an artist and she took out a restraining order? Will the documentary still prove useful?

 

[minicoop1985]

I would call a pretty large amount of you guys artists. Some of the things I see here are spectacular, and I only hope that I can someday achieve things on that level. I chose the option that says I'm not at a point where I can choose, because, well, duh.

 

[baturn]

Well, I selected the 3rd option, and then I read the entire thread and am now so conflicted after hearing everyones opinions and definitions of "artist" that I'm not sure I shouldn't have selected #1 and then apologized for being a crummy one. None of this is going to deter me from coming here in hopes of having a good time and perhaps learning something in the process.

 

[mmaria]

After thinking, thinking and thinking about it more I selected the last option "I want to be an artist but not ready yet"

Artist, for me, is a very strong word and calling my self as an artist indicates that I'm creating something of a great value, objective value, and I can't do that. It also means that I as an artist must know everything that is to know about particular rules, norms, technicalities and so on... I just can't declare myself as an artist even if it is just in my monologue, I'm simply not up to what I consider an artist should be.
I aspire to be an artist and who knows, maybe in decades from now I still wont call myself an artist because of my personal standards and opinion about art.

I like reality and truth, and I'm trying to capture the moment/situation/person/subject as real as it possibly can be but applying some norms of art...

Have I just contradicted myself? Oh boy...

 

[slackercruster]

Didn't vote. 70% photo 30% artist.

 

[rexbobcat]

I'm not an artist because I don't create things to be displayed as art. All of my photos have a primary purpose beyond being shown and sold in a gallery.