thorns and berries, me, graphite, 2022sillymanbilly t1_iu76svr wrote
Reply to comment by Purposlessporpoise in thorns and berries, me, graphite, 2022 by sime1art
This doesn't ring true for me. Why does art always have to have clear intention? Why does the artist owe anyone an explanation or more details?
Purposlessporpoise t1_iu78gln wrote
Go on any gallery website and read an artists statement and tell me if any of them say “I don’t owe you an explanation”
shorthairtotallycare t1_iu7bvqo wrote
It’s made up after the fact because galleries need statements most of the time
Purposlessporpoise t1_iu7h1vs wrote
Galleries need statements because there’s a purpose to art making beyond this twenty-first century notion that an artist’s persona has to be based around an ambivalent mystic who has to speak in rhymes and avoid meaning to everything.
Purposlessporpoise t1_iu7hkcd wrote
Take agency in your work. Don’t be witness to your own creation.
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Purposlessporpoise t1_iu7ri0g wrote
Yeah this drawing of a highly rendered representational image of a lady licking a foot and small detailed fruit was made on a whim out of the minds eye ok
2fences t1_iu7zjax wrote
You can’t see the potential (as opposed to kinetic) pain?
This drawing gives great tension and makes me feel the same as I have during acupuncture, falling into cactus or getting tangled in a thorny bush. It’s so tight that the image gave me shivers.
kinda_warm t1_iu95yxh wrote
bro, i can garuntee 90% of gallery statements are bullshitted and absolutely ignored. No one will ever remember the things they are told to feel in a paragraph under a painting. they’ll remember what they see and feel when looking at the actual piece of work.
If you genuinely need a verbal explanation to put your own meaning to a piece then idk if this sort of medium is for you lol
Purposlessporpoise t1_iu96uzq wrote
I’m can garuntee you that you probably don’t give a fuck about art
Purposlessporpoise t1_iu77oou wrote
Art doesn’t always have to have a direct narrative or story behind it. You don’t have to know what it means before or while you’re making it. But once it’s said and done, especially for a piece like this with lots of implications and narrative tools, when someone asks you about it’s meaning, you better have something better than that ^
sillymanbilly t1_iu78t3t wrote
Sure, it'd be nice. But hardly a requirement, I feel
Purposlessporpoise t1_iu797gg wrote
Art can be anything ya want I was just sharing my opinion
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