Canvas Art
Canvas art is over rated.
There is so much of art around us everyday, whether it’s our binder metal or the design of a plane.
Art has form and no form on occasions , art is not always random or just a spurt of thoughts, there could be science to it.
If one choses to; one could add science to form art, any art and vice versa.
When people are blind to everyday art yet craze over canvas art/artists it’s ridiculous. They are no art experts. They have limited vision or may be confined taste. Understandable!
Canvas art is way overrated that’s all. O I don’t want to even get started on contemporary…. !
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Art is wonderful, and you’re right, it is all around us. But there is a very concrete reason why art on canvas is considered to be of greater value than the print on a plate or t-shirt. When artists sit down to paint they will be creating one, and only one copy of that painting of the image that they see or imagine. When a designer designs plates, or t-shirts, or chairs, or a tea cup, or a book cover, it is art, but we often don’t see it as so because that piece of art then becomes a physical item that is massively manufactured and distributed to the public in large amounts. It is no longer something unique, and new, but something that is part of our everyday life.
As an artist myself I must tell you that the art I do on canvas is never a spurt of the moment thought. Sometimes it’s inspired by something in my life, and those around me. Sometimes I paint something to study how light hits and reflects that object. It’s so that I have a higher understanding of that object.
You are also absolutely right about art not being “random or just a spurt of thoughts” because there is science to it. For example, Leonardo da Vinci used his scientific observations to do his paintings. He studied anatomy, and botany in order to depict humans and plants with incredible accuracy. In order for an artist to be successful they must study composition, color, contrast, asymmetry, balance, shape, form, texture, value, space, and much more. The reason art on canvas is so “overrated” is that most of the time that piece of artwork took the artist years to complete, and is a unique and single copy.
Your comment: “When people are blind to everyday art yet craze over canvas art/artists it’s ridiculous. They are no art experts. They have limited vision or may be confined taste.” made me very angry. Because I have studied art extensively, I know the science behind it, what it means to spend years perfecting a technique, and why it is so valued in our society. To simply say that people have limited vision for recognizing the effort the artist puts forth in order to depict their vision is truly sad…
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You have made me think a bit more about this. I have to get back to you. Interesting point of view from your end. Thanks
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I agree with the above – no need to add.
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This is great! there are so many different types, and ways to create art. It’s so sad that some people have blinders on to most of it.
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Thank you. I’m glad you see it the same way as well.
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I recently started to oil paint, but I have always been “artistic” in one way or another. I have always thought that art should be useful. Fegio above mentions mass produced art becoming common place but everything in life should be and can be beautiful. You can get beautiful mass produced stuff which will always be beautiful to behold and there are mass produced stuff that is ugly, the same with individual art, some is beautiful some is ugly. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, thank goodness! So many different people, so many different styles, so many different likes. I will search for a unique and beautiful cup around the charity stores instead of buying a mass produced one. Perhaps the one I buy was mass produced long ago, but if it is useful and beautiful, how much the better. I have even hand painted a cup as a gift for someone and found them still using it many years later. It give me such a thrill if people USE my art.
I have relatives who have very ugly paintings on their walls and they admit that they are ugly but they say the are “an investment” as they are by a famous artists. I could not live looking at those dark dreary paintings every day. I would much rather have a cheap and cheerful painting that inspired me every time I looked at it.
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I can understand your point. I only have this to say in any form art is powerful. Powerful because of it ability to be undefinable. Whether random or premeditated. Yet one must always remember art is a broad brush. Its randomness allows for its premeditation. Because had it been the other way one might say there would be an out cry for randomness.
P.S. You said DESIGN and design true enough is scientific. Thanks for letting me share.
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You are very perceptive that art is everywhere around us! I feel that there is a difference between artwork that serves function (such as design, which is the type of art used to create to look of a plane, and architecture, which is the type of art that creates the mood of a building, and the culinary arts that create experiences for your taste and smell senses as well as visual appeal) and artwork that exists for no other purpose than to express an idea. Artwork that is not attached to another physical thing, is something different. I think I get your point, that it is overvalued; I’d agree some people feel “Fine Art” on canvas is somehow more elite than cool looking kitchen appliances. I feel that canvas art (sculpture, etc.) is definitely no less important than these things. Aren’t the things you mentioned considered art to you because they make you feel good in some way?
I’m an artist and a designer. I paint on canvas and wood, and also design some functional things. I would consider myself and expert. I feel like everything in life can be art if you let it be. And I use science in my art-making all the time! Technique and chemistry, color theory, light refraction, iridescence, structural integrity, lightfastness, and electrical power tools all require extreme amounts of science. Science is an art for sure, because science is not factual. Science is “best guess”. Math is less arty that science, and we’ve all seen what cool images (fractals) math can create!
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Art is what translates the past, singles out the current and give flight to the possibility of what tomorrow brings. The medium decided upon by the artist is part of that process and not only brings value through its poignancy but through how it can bring someone in who has never thought of ‘art’ but saw something that spoke to them. I feel art like life has people who are either ‘High Attention” or ‘Low Attention’. High Attention people experience life multiple ways [not adrenaline junkies — just daily life]. Then Low Attention people are those who only choose to see the surface and never truly experience anything. The more traditional or the new media arts can and do have both types of art within. I’ve walked into a gallery and walked out less than a minute later because the traditional art represented was vague and I felt almost insulting because it was all pretense. I’ve also stood in front of a 10″x10″ oil painting mesmerized, loosing track of time and really becoming absorbed into the art. The same experience has happened with new media work. I think if it translates to the viewer in a poignant matter then it is successful and therefore is ART.
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Interesting thought process
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There is good art & bad art: just the same as any other form of creativity. There’s also different tastes in art & different opinions of what art is & should be. I love art; it fills me excitement & makes my life much richer. Bu I can understand art not being everyones cup of tea…
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I think art is done its job; we talk about it, think about it and that way it’s already make your life richer.
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I don’t think that canvas art is necessarily a bad think. I think what gets missed is people don’t always know how to properly photogragh their art.
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Oh, I have this problem real bad. Most of the photo’s of my paintings are out of focus or in bad lighting. I have taken to scanning the small ones but don’t know what to do with larger canvases. anybody got an idea how to take better photo’s of my paintings, apart from taking them to a professional photographer
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I strongly disagree with you here. The idea that art is all around is one I can agree with to a point. Nature is art, Google logos are not art and neither are planes. Consumerism and advertising is not art. Oscar Wilde said that all art is quite useless and what he meant was this; art is not intended to be functional. It is beautiful and to be appreciated simply for what it is. It does not serve any purpose. The problem with some canvas art is that it is too commercial. It is trying to be functional; to adorn living rooms and offices. It is trying to be useful and Wilde would have argued that THIS kind of canvas art is not really art.
I don’t think people are blinded to ‘everyday art’ which I call mass-produced ‘in your face’ advertising. The problem is that people’s minds have become so saturated with the stuff that they no longer know HOW to look. ‘Everyday art’ has caused this problem, it has no place as part of the solution.
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Consumerism is not art neither is advertising. But they DO start out as art.
An aerodynamically shaped plane IS art. It bends and used the laws of physics into a shape and method that is like engineering art
Like a painter bending and twisting the stroke of a brush and the colors of the world to produce art.
Why is one better than the other ? infact such common highly useful art is under rated
Everyday art is not the problem, its just abundant and misplaced and unsung or forgotten. there is art everywhere not just on a limited canvas
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Who said ‘I am an artists therefore everything I do is art?’ – whoever it was I agree with them (maybe).
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Fine art and commercial art have at least two things in common: skill of an artist and an ability to affect emotions. When I took a visual communication class I came out with an unexpected ability to recognize that a cool looking piece of art on the package (which many would not think of as art) actually did subconsciously influence my desire to buy. (Possibly the marketing industry wouldn’t want everyone to realize this!)
Recognizing art or potential art all around us, whether in nature, in product or advertising design or hung on a wall gives us an opportunity to appreciate beauty and brighten our day even when we have no money to spend or a free wall to hang a canvas on. We can appreciate an artists talent if nothing else.
But it is harder to see it now, simply because of industry. A teddy bear, doll or chair is no longer an individual piece made by a loving skilled person. It may start out that way, but then it gets shoved through a massive supply of factory, fake fur or plastic and many hands all punching out identical copies. It’s harder to see the art when it’s buried in a sea of clones and we are so far removed from it’s creator. And maybe it’s hard for the creator too: instead of allowing their skill to grow into a style of their own, they have to contend with paying bills and therefore have to make products that sell and big companies usually want what’s already proven to sell, not new and untried ideas. But if it’s never been done how do you know it wouldn’t be popular?
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Art is everywhere. I definitely agree with you. Art does not have to be out of reach it’s a part of our everyday life. When you travel to Europe it is easier to grasp and see this. Art belongs to everyone.
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useful info – good work.
thanks
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I can agree to some extent to the comment made by fegio, I recently did a installation piece of art at a gallery in Orlando Fl. called redefine. I made sure i strayed from using just canvas material because it does limit the idea of creativity versus just technique. The masters created works of art on canvas, wood, paper, and various surfaces. Jackson p. created spontaneous works of art expressed by a number of paint drips on many occasions drip cloth. Basquiat created art out of doors and old poscards he found on the street…My point is that your style or technique should not be limited by the analitical state of mind of approaching art like if it were a blue print to a mercedes benz or a house, its art, and it belongs to the entire human existence not just the people who tend to buy art that is only on canvas. Keertalk..you’re the truth! thanks. lemus.
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