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Aghhh!!!!
I was showing my truly beloved the art I have done recently, some watercolours, some more, ahem, creative work and a pen and wash of the Liver building most of which I really like. Also on the go my Lancasters and now a Christian icon..
Then she says, "will you ever paint real art or are you scared of it?" I said what do do you mean so she says "You know, see a pheasant and paint it?" Obviously I immediately replied if I see a pheasant I shall eat it! I dont like paintings of Pheasants done like 'real art'.
But I suppose I get what she means and the truth is were I to try an Old master of the local watermeadows yes, I'd fail, so I guess I am 'scared'...but then I really dont like them either! But I suppose I should try to produce 'real art' instead of the stuff I am enjoying...nah, just kidding. Though I do see all my current sploshings of colour as learning a craft which might one day give rise to a really nice landscape or sea scape...
I know that if I tried to paint something like a horse race it'd be 'real art' but my style
David
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It's an unfortunate and hurtful use of the word "real", isn't it?
IMHO if you produce an image of something, then it IS "real" art, and it doesn't matter if it's a Campbell's soup tin, a Henry Moore sculpture, or a smear of paint on a kitchen tile. Public opinion has sadly distorted what it sees as art so that only Old Masters are viewed as the genuine article.
You may never find a way round this one. Selling one of your paintings would help sway opinion, I'm sure.
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Mmm! Well I won't say what I'm really thinking David, but you can guess. All art is "real art". The act of creation is "real art". I wonder if your truly beloved has a hobby and if so, how would she feel if you said - "well darling, that patchwork quilt is nice but are you ever going to do something really useful"! You enjoy it - we enjoy seeing it - end of story. And the bonus is that it keeps you out of mischief! Keep on the good work and don't worry about it. Just think if we all did the exact same art, how boring life would be.
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"In the eye of the beholder" or words to that effect. There was a bloke on the Bournemouth show who arrived with big sheets of packing carboard with truly ghastly daubs on them and stuck them up. he got a right telling off from the Commandant! especially as he had them piced at £500!!!!!!!!!!!
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I must add that while I would probably reply "NEVER!!!", I am rather impertinent and might claim that "my" hill of used condoms is exhibited in Tate. As I said, I am indeed impolite and can not stop myself from replying to unkindness in any other than rude way.
So, ignore it, it is foolish comment (possibly unwitting) of person without hobby ;-)
BTW, obviously, I do not exhibit anything in Tate, just hope it was me who filled that crosswords instead of the 91 yo lady in Neus Museum in Nuremburg. I am her biggest fan- whoever she is, she is my hero :-D
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Moving swiftly on, then.....
I've drawn, and eaten, pheasant. But I'm not sure I understand Best Beloved's words at all - presumably the pheasant was just an example of what she thought you should be painting - but if you've painted the Liver Building you have produced "real art" in the sense in which she seems to mean it: ie you've created a figurative piece (I presume - and not a splash of colour with no particular resemblance to anything and have then called it The Liver Building, when you could as easily have called it Sparrows Rising from A Dung Heap in Baluchistan, or Grimethorpe Colliery Silver Band on the March, to pluck a couple of titles from the ether)?
I do not, in short, entirely grasp her purport (and please: that does not invite or require any more smutty rejoinders). What, Light of My Life and Spirit of My Dreams, do you mean, I would silkily inquire, the edge on my voice indicating perhaps the merest hint of murderous irritation? Scared - Dearest? I would further probe, idly testing the edge of a convenient meat-cleaver - I think you will find, I would persist, moodily smacking the implement into the table top and looking at her fixedly, that I fear nothing and would happily tackle any artistic challenge you chose to lay before me. Have a care - I would conclude - with these hurtful words, suggestive of nervousness or indecision on my part: I, after all, am the artist - and I shall decide what is real art and what is not. And it may be that my voice would rise by a decibel or seven as I concluded this wounded reproach.
Paint what you like and tell your Heart's Desire to be grateful. "Real art"! Take a firm line, and stand neither nonsense nor, indeed, rannygazoo. She will doubtless appreciate your masterful approach in these matters, and not trouble you with these trifling concerns again.
I should perhaps add that I have not had a partner for some considerable time. You can perhaps begin to guess why that might be.
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Robert. Pheasant? I've never drawn pheasant but I've eaten pheasant. Liver Building? I've never drawn the Liver Building but I've eaten liver. Sparrows Rising? I've never drawn Sparrows but, yes, I've eaten small birds (not sure what they were - in Malta a long time ago - wouldn't do it now). A dung heap? No definitely not !!I
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