Hello 365 family!! I'm going on 5 years, you all feel like family.
2016 I'm going to be pushing myself. I would love for you to join me.
A few days ago I was thumbing through an Art Magazine and was so inspired.
From paintings, to photography, to sculptures.
Not to duplicate, but to pulled from the art and make it mine, yours.
My goal is to create once a week. (at least twice a month).
No rules please!!
I will do my best to let you all know my thoughts of why and how.
If you would like to join tag your work: myart-16
Cheers to the New Year!!
I should like to give this a try... No rules - but how are you thinking to distinguish "art" from other photos? Just curious - I think I know how I would make the distinction, but wondering how you are thinking about this...
@northy I would love for you to join!! It would be fun!
My thoughts are this, When we see art of any kind we get an emotion. Good, Bad or I have to go create right now. The push is taking that and making you own creation. I see many, myself included duplicating art. Yes that is still art and a challenge. This is to take is farther and stretch your self. I hope that helps. At least that is how my brain is working on this.
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This might help more. I saw a painting of a little girl all alone reading a book. She really pulled me in. I wondered why was she alone, what was she reading, was she sad? I took those emotions and shot this. The edit is nothing like the painting. How it moved me is how I came up with this.
interesting... i look at it a bit differently... when i take a picture that is meant to represent the subject, it's just "plain" photography (for lack of a better word)... i seem to do this less and less... much of what i post these days start as ideas, rather than things... like my chess shot from today...
some weeks ago i posted a question about how i / you / any of us explain what we shoot... most people understand about using tangible things as subjects... landscapes, portraiture, still life... but much harder to explain "art" photography, i find... and then, i tend to struggle to see myself as an "artist", so it makes it all that much more difficult... but regardless, i do think it's more about "art", then a "quick snap" of something i happen to be looking at... so "art" it is :)
@northy Every artist has a tool. It maybe a paint brush, chalk, pen, clay, ect. So art is what ever we want it to be. You can never be wrong. Because it is yours. As photographers we have a camera and editing programs.
In this challenge, before we shoot we must take time and observe. What and how does something make you feel. You may only pull a color or a childhood memory. Now picture in your mind how it would look as a photograph. It is a lesson in being inspired by another then making it your own. I have done this with music. In a child playing at the beach.
@leanne333 Given what April mentioned in her note to me, about a piece of art inspiring our photo, I thought I'd share my immediate thought when I saw yours. There is a wonderful sculpture that was part of the Charles Ray exhibit of a life-sized wolf. I just uploaded it in a Sept overflow spot.
I have a particular interest in sculpture and how it looks different from every angle. I love trying to take photos that captures a particular mood/ aspect/ angle.... just another idea?
i do this all the time :)
Definitely creative photography is a medium that has the versatility to enable all kinds of going beyond the literal and into art. i discovered through this project that i have a lot of conceptual and visionary subject matter going on in my brain and inspiration for how to express that can definitely come from viewing the work of other artists doing the same and then put my own spin on it, . a lovely way of encouraging us all to take things that little bit further April,
Sounds like a fun idea and I will try to do this if I have time.
I wonder Would something like this qualify? This was my interpretation (done in 2013) of Norman Rockwell's self portrait he had done. But I do try to have an artistic spin on my photography most of the time. But since you said no rules perhaps it does apply?
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My thoughts are this, When we see art of any kind we get an emotion. Good, Bad or I have to go create right now. The push is taking that and making you own creation. I see many, myself included duplicating art. Yes that is still art and a challenge. This is to take is farther and stretch your self. I hope that helps. At least that is how my brain is working on this.
This might help more. I saw a painting of a little girl all alone reading a book. She really pulled me in. I wondered why was she alone, what was she reading, was she sad? I took those emotions and shot this. The edit is nothing like the painting. How it moved me is how I came up with this.
some weeks ago i posted a question about how i / you / any of us explain what we shoot... most people understand about using tangible things as subjects... landscapes, portraiture, still life... but much harder to explain "art" photography, i find... and then, i tend to struggle to see myself as an "artist", so it makes it all that much more difficult... but regardless, i do think it's more about "art", then a "quick snap" of something i happen to be looking at... so "art" it is :)
In this challenge, before we shoot we must take time and observe. What and how does something make you feel. You may only pull a color or a childhood memory. Now picture in your mind how it would look as a photograph. It is a lesson in being inspired by another then making it your own. I have done this with music. In a child playing at the beach.
Find a piece of art. Study it. What does it stir up in you? Bring that vision to life through your camera. Have fun!! =D
This is absolutely beautiful!!
Can I ask what was your inspiration?
Thank you for sharing!
For example:
This:
vs. this:
or even this:
Definitely creative photography is a medium that has the versatility to enable all kinds of going beyond the literal and into art. i discovered through this project that i have a lot of conceptual and visionary subject matter going on in my brain and inspiration for how to express that can definitely come from viewing the work of other artists doing the same and then put my own spin on it, . a lovely way of encouraging us all to take things that little bit further April,
I wonder Would something like this qualify? This was my interpretation (done in 2013) of Norman Rockwell's self portrait he had done. But I do try to have an artistic spin on my photography most of the time. But since you said no rules perhaps it does apply?