On May 29, 2:01 pm,
OllieNort...@aol.com wrote:
> Thats interesting. A concept artist. Thats what I am. I have
> concepts. Now a days it is too laborious to actually master a medium
> like oils, or even digital painting. We need to move fast. Knock it
> out. It is a consumable. Look at 3 Stooges comedies. Those were
> assembly line comedies and are still making money. No big
> productions, just the gags and the three of them.
>
> I am not knocking hi art. It is just not worth pursuing for most of
> us.
I am not saying this to be funny and in fact wish I had a scanner
so I could send you the photo. It was a photo of a bunch of debris
along with dead bodies lying face down in a cove near the ocean after
that big tsunami hit in the Indian Ocean a few years back. The
picture was very artistic. But I don't think the person who took it
saw it that way. Had the photo been separated from the story, I'm
telling you, a lot of people would not have known that what they were
looking at were the backs of floating dead people. So that made me
think of taking that photo and having it enlarged and placed in a
frame - maybe even worked on a bit to give it some color, maybe not,
it's optional - and then sold with a title such as "Tsunami Burial
Ground" or something equally or even more appropriate. Once you give
it the title, those seeing it will will note for the first time that
wow, those do look like the backs of dead people floating in water -
yet not so immediately noticeable as to make anyone think it was a
photograph. It would have an abstract look to it, even more so after
the enlarging and copying process. Then you can even add color with
actual oil paint to make it look like a real work of art - which of
course it already is - because you saw it - you saw the art in it -
unlike the guy who took the picture and saw it only as a bunch of dead
backs, you were able to see the art in it, which means you own it -
you own the art of it - you saw it, it's yours - finders keepers,
losers weepers.
TJ