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To-Die-For2 by Rockshifter on Talk Photography
It's Art
Beats me!Is it?
To-Die-For2 by Rockshifter on Talk Photography
Too many minds, guys.
Hi Lads.
Nice to hear you find the shot a bit perplexing - just take what you will from it.
Ah, the cry of the lazy "artiste". Sorry Charles, I don't mean to be rude, but it's the artist that's meant to come up with the interpretation, not the audience. It's his or her job to communicate, and I'm afraid this one doesn't.
Of course some plonker will come along and tell us how your image "speaks to me about the rebellion of youth against the old guard, imparting feelings of warmth while cooling the soul, and invoking memories previously forgotten, previously deliberately buried", and you'll be delighted, but that'll just be mutual ego massage. Obviously you'll then be able to dismiss the rest of us as uneducated, unseeing plebs.
Art can be obscure, and can challenge viewers, but if there's no message intended, there's no challenge in finding one. Any random combination of subjects, colours, shapes or whatever will do.
If you can't tell us what you're trying to communicate, then there's nothing TO communicate, and it's not art.
Umm, nicely focused, and well exposed though
Oh good.
I struggled with it until I saw the Union Flag.
lol...
if we can't appreciate it as art, or at least see some measure of intent, do we have to critique its technical failings....or not bother at all ?
Only if it bothers you. Being art doesn't exclude it from technical crit though IMO.