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I've kind of wondered what made impressionism so interesting to people. it can look sloppy but life like and interesting. People really are drawn to the style.
by tayo42 5y ago
I've kind of wondered what made impressionism so interesting to people. it can look sloppy but life like and interesting. People really are drawn to the style. I find it so much more interesting then a realistic style painting, even if it's well done and I can appreciate the technicalness of it. Some brains really like loose styles of art.
- TheOtherHobbes 5y agoThere's a common principle in art that it's good to make your audience work for a reward. You can do that by packing in a lot of fine detail, so they have to work to explore it. You can do it intellectually by including a lot of cultural and historical references only some people will get. You can also do it by leaving out and fuzzing detail, so they have to work to make sense of what they're seeing - taking a detour through various aesthetic associations along the way. Beyond impressionism you end up with abstract expressionism, which is all associative and evocative aesthetics, and no figurative subject to recognise. And that still works for a surprisingly large number of people.