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Topic: Artists!
bhernandez Joined Sun 03/21/10 Posts: 14901	Thu 07/26/12 12:20 PM
how much time do you spend on stuff you don't like?

Ruth34611 Joined Sat 08/02/08 Posts: 32401	Thu 07/26/12 12:21 PM
The Tarot deck you created is amazing, JB. I've always been impressed by it.

Jeanniebean Joined Wed 01/30/08 Posts: 40028	Thu 07/26/12 12:22 PM
For me, painting is easy. I have been doing it all my life. (Or since I was 14.) The vision and the actual design is the hard part. Once that is worked out, then its just a matter of application and skill.

Jeanniebean Joined Wed 01/30/08 Posts: 40028	Thu 07/26/12 12:22 PM Edited by Jeanniebean on Thu 07/26/12 12:38 PM
The Tarot deck you created is amazing, JB. I've always been impressed by it. Thanks Ruth.

Conrad_73 Joined Sat 09/29/07 Posts: 22488	Thu 07/26/12 12:24 PM
I like what she has to say about it! http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/art.html What are the valid forms of art—and why these? . . . The proper forms of art present a selective re-creation of reality in terms needed by man’s cognitive faculty, which includes his entity-perceiving senses, and thus assist the integration of the various elements of a conceptual consciousness. Literature deals with concepts, the visual arts with sight and touch, music with hearing. Each art fulfills the function of bringing man’s concepts to the perceptual level of his consciousness and allowing him to grasp them directly, as if they were percepts. (The performing arts are a means of further concretization.) The different branches of art serve to unify man’s consciousness and offer him a coherent view of existence. Whether that view is true or false is not an esthetic matter. The crucially esthetic matter is psycho-epistemological: the integration of a conceptual consciousness. Art (including literature) is the barometer of a culture. It reflects the sum of a society’s deepest philosophical values: not its professed notions and slogans, but its actual view of man and of existence. By a selective re-creation, art isolates and integrates those aspects of reality which represent man’s fundamental view of himself and of existence. Out of the countless number of concretes—of single, disorganized and (seemingly) contradictory attributes, actions and entities—an artist isolates the things which he regards as metaphysically essential and integrates them into a single new concrete that represents an embodied abstraction. For instance, consider two statues of man: one as a Greek god, the other as a deformed medieval monstrosity. Both are metaphysical estimates of man; both are projections of the artist’s view of man’s nature; both are concretized representations of the philosophy of their respective cultures. Art is a concretization of metaphysics. Art brings man’s concepts to the perceptual level of his consciousness and allows him to grasp them directly, as if they were percepts. This is the psycho-epistemological function of art and the reason of its importance in man’s life (and the crux of the Objectivist esthetics). more at the Link

Leigh2154 Joined Sun 10/02/11 Posts: 16479	Thu 07/26/12 12:32 PM
I like what she has to say about it! http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/art.html What are the valid forms of art—and why these? . . . The proper forms of art present a selective re-creation of reality in terms needed by man’s cognitive faculty, which includes his entity-perceiving senses, and thus assist the integration of the various elements of a conceptual consciousness. Literature deals with concepts, the visual arts with sight and touch, music with hearing. Each art fulfills the function of bringing man’s concepts to the perceptual level of his consciousness and allowing him to grasp them directly, as if they were percepts. (The performing arts are a means of further concretization.) The different branches of art serve to unify man’s consciousness and offer him a coherent view of existence. Whether that view is true or false is not an esthetic matter. The crucially esthetic matter is psycho-epistemological: the integration of a conceptual consciousness. Art (including literature) is the barometer of a culture. It reflects the sum of a society’s deepest philosophical values: not its professed notions and slogans, but its actual view of man and of existence. By a selective re-creation, art isolates and integrates those aspects of reality which represent man’s fundamental view of himself and of existence. Out of the countless number of concretes—of single, disorganized and (seemingly) contradictory attributes, actions and entities—an artist isolates the things which he regards as metaphysically essential and integrates them into a single new concrete that represents an embodied abstraction. For instance, consider two statues of man: one as a Greek god, the other as a deformed medieval monstrosity. Both are metaphysical estimates of man; both are projections of the artist’s view of man’s nature; both are concretized representations of the philosophy of their respective cultures. Art is a concretization of metaphysics. Art brings man’s concepts to the perceptual level of his consciousness and allows him to grasp them directly, as if they were percepts. This is the psycho-epistemological function of art and the reason of its importance in man’s life (and the crux of the Objectivist esthetics). more at the Link "Literature deals with concepts, the visual arts with sight and touch, music with hearing. Each art fulfills the function of bringing man’s concepts to the perceptual level of his consciousness and allowing him to grasp them directly, as if they were percepts."

Jeanniebean Joined Wed 01/30/08 Posts: 40028	Thu 07/26/12 12:36 PM
how much time do you spend on stuff you don't like? I understand your attitude about digital art though. I used to have the same attitude because I worked and slaved on oil paintings all my life. I started using the computer for my picture file, and then I would use it to create small thumb nail sketches for larger paintings instead of actual small oil painted thumbnails. It was more convenient. Originally the tarot deck plan was to design the card on the computer then repaint it onto canvas but I realized that project would take ten years. Not only that, after I got all the paintings finished, it would have been extremely hard and expensive to have each one of them professionally photographed to be put back into digital form for printing. More time and lots of money.... So I printed some prototype cards strait from my computer designs... and they looked pretty darn good. So I decided to tweak them as best I could and have them printed or print them myself. I wanted to get back to painting with oils and get the deck finished and start selling it. I did not want to spend the rest of my life trying to finish it and not being able to paint other things I wanted to paint.

singmesweet Joined Mon 07/28/08 Posts: 26661	Thu 07/26/12 12:38 PM
i don't understand why you people try to convince me otherwise. there is nothing you can say to me or show me that'll make me respect any type of digital art. el fin. You can think anyway you'd like. There will always be people who don't consider certain types of art as art.

Jeanniebean Joined Wed 01/30/08 Posts: 40028	Thu 07/26/12 12:40 PM
I think if the art gets you to experience feelings, or emotions then it is art.

Ruth34611 Joined Sat 08/02/08 Posts: 32401	Thu 07/26/12 12:40 PM
I think if the art gets you to experience feelings, or emotions then it is art. Now THIS I agree with.

Jeanniebean Joined Wed 01/30/08 Posts: 40028	Thu 07/26/12 12:45 PM
I like what she has to say about it! http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/art.html What are the valid forms of art—and why these? . . . The proper forms of art present a selective re-creation of reality in terms needed by man’s cognitive faculty, which includes his entity-perceiving senses, and thus assist the integration of the various elements of a conceptual consciousness. Literature deals with concepts, the visual arts with sight and touch, music with hearing. Each art fulfills the function of bringing man’s concepts to the perceptual level of his consciousness and allowing him to grasp them directly, as if they were percepts. (The performing arts are a means of further concretization.) The different branches of art serve to unify man’s consciousness and offer him a coherent view of existence. Whether that view is true or false is not an esthetic matter. The crucially esthetic matter is psycho-epistemological: the integration of a conceptual consciousness. Art (including literature) is the barometer of a culture. It reflects the sum of a society’s deepest philosophical values: not its professed notions and slogans, but its actual view of man and of existence. By a selective re-creation, art isolates and integrates those aspects of reality which represent man’s fundamental view of himself and of existence. Out of the countless number of concretes—of single, disorganized and (seemingly) contradictory attributes, actions and entities—an artist isolates the things which he regards as metaphysically essential and integrates them into a single new concrete that represents an embodied abstraction. For instance, consider two statues of man: one as a Greek god, the other as a deformed medieval monstrosity. Both are metaphysical estimates of man; both are projections of the artist’s view of man’s nature; both are concretized representations of the philosophy of their respective cultures. Art is a concretization of metaphysics. Art brings man’s concepts to the perceptual level of his consciousness and allows him to grasp them directly, as if they were percepts. This is the psycho-epistemological function of art and the reason of its importance in man’s life (and the crux of the Objectivist esthetics). more at the Link Way too mental I fell asleep reading it.

Leigh2154 Joined Sun 10/02/11 Posts: 16479	Thu 07/26/12 01:46 PM
I think if the art gets you to experience feelings, or emotions then it is art.

Jeanniebean Joined Wed 01/30/08 Posts: 40028	Thu 07/26/12 04:25 PM
Okay everyone say... "AAAHHH!"

bhernandez Joined Sun 03/21/10 Posts: 14901	Thu 07/26/12 09:46 PM
I think if the art gets you to experience feelings, or emotions then it is art. agreed. which is why digital arts do nothing for me. i get more emotional over trees!

red_lace Joined Sat 04/17/10 Posts: 7247	Fri 07/27/12 03:48 AM
Heather Jansch’s Driftwood art.... Enjoy! These are crazy beautiful! :)

Optomistic69 Joined Mon 10/10/11 Posts: 5173	Fri 07/27/12 04:21 AM
Okay everyone say... "AAAHHH!" "AAAHHH!"

Torgo70 Joined Fri 06/27/08 Posts: 27387	Fri 07/27/12 06:05 AM
I think if the art gets you to experience feelings, or emotions then it is art. agreed. which is why digital arts do nothing for me. i get more emotional over trees!

red_lace Joined Sat 04/17/10 Posts: 7247	Fri 07/27/12 06:19 AM Edited by red_lace on Fri 07/27/12 06:20 AM
That's ****in' hilarious.

JOHNN111 Joined Wed 05/13/09 Posts: 9273	Fri 07/27/12 07:28 AM
Oh no you don't! .... There are plenty of other threads to rip each other apart. This thread was created to enjoy the artistic value of people, not their subjects or the way they express themselves. JB... Thank you for sharing your creations b... I wish you'd share yours

red_lace Joined Sat 04/17/10 Posts: 7247	Fri 07/27/12 07:57 AM
Love driftwood and I'm currently incorporating it to my home. Saw this one recently and was actually going to do something similar, but am still looking for the right driftwood. The person who did this beat me to it. Beautiful, IMHO. I think how you decorate your home is also an art in itself. :)