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> I paint realism in oils, mostly still life. I showed my grandma (98) a photo on an iPad. Her immediate reaction: “there’s no reason to paint realism anymore”
by mch82 5y ago
> I paint realism in oils, mostly still life.
I showed my grandma (98) a photo on an iPad. Her immediate reaction: “there’s no reason to paint realism anymore”. The method described in this article might work for realism in oils, but please don’t accept it as the exclusive way to create art.
Art is about understanding the tools you’re using to create (for example how paint mixes, moves, dries, interacts with a surface), then choosing which tools to use and how to use those tools to convey an experience to an audience. Art is about experimentation, exploration, communication. Art is about studying & talking with other artists to learn how they work, the processes they use, how they solve problems; sometimes copying them and then extending beyond.
My point of view on this developed as I studied art in high school, through AP art, and then minored in fine art in college alongside my engineering degree. Plus many hours painting with my grandma and my mom.
- test_epsilon 5y agoWhat were the remaining reasons to paint realism after relatively cheap color photography came about ~100 years ago and before the iPad was made, out of curiosity?
- thatcat 5y agoThere wasn't any really, surrealism and abstract art developed slightly before that
- khazhoux 5y ago> The method described in this article might work for realism in oils, but please don’t accept it as the exclusive way to create art. The method in this article applies universally to any art, music, any creative endeavor, and frankly even non-creative endeavors. It can be reduced to this: take time to practice, improve, and eventually excel at specific skills/techniques that comprise your craft, with no regard for any sort of big picture during this focused practice.
- tweetle_beetle 5y ago> Art is about studying & talking with other artists to learn how they work, the processes they use, how they solve problems; Everything else makes sense to me, but isn't this a bit narrow? It implies that all art is the search for some higher truth, and that it can only be achieved as a communal effort. This academic, analytical approach would seem to fit your personal art career and that of many artists important to at history. But surely there is still artistic truth in the individual practising and experimenting for themselves, outside any scene or context. There are also examples of people doing this who are considered important to art.
- mch82 5y agoYou’re right. I didn’t mean to imply otherwise.