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QUESTION #2: What kind of art do you like? Why?
DF of New York City writes:
Surrealism. These Paintings can convey so many
different meanings.
PL of Williamsburg writes:
Impressionism. I like impressionism because
when I close my eyes and remember my childhood, my memories seem to have been
painted by Monet.
MB of New York City writes:
Modern Art the most. For my taste I find it
the most sophisticated, classy and interesting. I like other kinds of art
also but my favorite is modern!
TS of Brooklyn:
I'll write about photography, maybe I do like
it better than any other art. At least I've thought a little more about it.
I like photography because there is always a story, just beyond the frame. A good photograph automatically creates tension, because the frame or cropping slices into a motion, a scene, an expression, challenging the viewer to guess or invent the rest.
A good photograph also contains a special sense of composition and balance Ð a composition that exists only for a particular, split-second moment. One of my favorite phtographers, Cartier Bresson, refered to this as "the critical moment." The fleeting arrangement of elements captured at this moment creates an unbearably perfect sense of balance. Knowing that in the next instant, the subject of the picture may have shifted or scurried away, or the light may have changed makes the photo all the more exciting. A good photograph accomplishes the impossible - it captures an historical and artistic moment that no longer exists. In place of people or events or moments passed, the photograph gives us a new truth.
Unfortunately, so many of the pictures people (including myself, more often than not) instinctively take, are ones of images we've already seen on postcards, magazines etc. It's hard to tell when we're seeing an image fresh, with our own eyes, vs. when we're seeing an image that appeals to us as a subject only because it subconsciously reminds us of a stock image we've already seen (ie. palm tree on a beach, honey bee on a flower, etc).
Maybe the issue of "originality in an age of image saturation" could be a future question?
Ultimately, the kind of photography and the kind of art I like is the kind that shows me something in my world or inside myself, but in a way I'd never seen it before.