If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#32
|
|||
|
|||
Bad photo? Just call it "Fine Art"
PAS Wrote in message:
On 5/5/2016 3:56 PM, PeterN wrote: On 5/5/2016 2:12 PM, Floyd L. Davidson wrote: Ron C wrote: Inflated value hype is what jumped out at me in the twitter/ad/spam for the photo. I have no problem with calling the photo "art" but "fine art" seems to (attempt to) put the photo in a more refined class. So what distinguishes "art" from "fine art"? [YMMV] The two terms are actually quite clearly defined, though it is also true that most people have no idea what either of them do mean! Art is "the product of human creativity". It need not be "good" to be art. If anyone anywhere finds something that is man made to be beautiful, attractive, or pleasant in any way... it is art. (Note that the word "art" is heavily overloaded, and there are many other valid meanings. This definition applies to what we are discussing, while other definitions do not.) Fine Art is a type of art. When used in the context of "the fine arts" it means things that appeal to our sense of beauty, or the production of those things. That includes painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry, and music as well as photography. But when applied to photography specifically, Fine Art Photography means as opposed to Commercial Photography which is made with purpose for a customer. Fine Art Photography is made to please the photographer. Hence if we photograph a fashion show, the images are by definition art. If we shoot specific shots because the sponsoring ad agency wants those particular poses to use in commercial advertisements, that is Commercial Photography. And if the photographer notices one particular model looks nice in one specific outfit, and grabs a shot just because... That is a bit of Fine Art. Perhaps most if not all work that is called "abstract" is Fine Art. Anything hanging in a gallery for sale is Fine Art. Fine Art is the landscape you mount and hang in the hallway. A portrait sold to the subject of the photograph is commercial art, but when sold to the general public just because it is a beautiful picture it becomes Fine Art. IIRC Andy Warhol managed to turn some mundane commercial art into fine art. And a huge payday too. AW was a surrealist. A great one... -- Bats can't tell us apart! ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
"Corset-Boi" Bob "Lionel Lauer" Larter has grown a "pair" and returned to AUK................ | \The Great One\ | Digital Photography | 0 | July 14th 09 12:04 AM |
canon fine art paper "museum etching" | william kossack | Digital Photography | 0 | February 3rd 08 05:39 PM |
"rec.photo.digital.txt" and "rec.photo.digital.dat" Filter Data Updatedand Posted | SMS 斯蒂文• 夏 | Digital Photography | 0 | December 3rd 07 06:47 AM |
Why does English call a "still life" what the Italians call "Natura Morta" | [email protected] | Digital Photography | 26 | April 28th 07 09:02 PM |
"Print So Fine" paper developer | [email protected] | In The Darkroom | 20 | February 13th 06 01:31 AM |