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If the friend in question doesn’t “get” landscapes, how does she “get” sculptural fibre arts? It’s all visual art, after all, if we didn’t paint landscapes we would paint seascapes or cities or portraits or animals, or we would take a knife or chisel and carve a piece of wood or stone. Maybe we would take some clay, and make a pot or a figure. Or even some fibre and glue it and sculpt it or whatever it is fibre sculptural artists do … It’s all art, after all, and it’s all VISUAL art. Michael McG summed it up perfectly when he said he was trying to communicate what he saw ‘to the viewer.’ This need applies to any sort of visual art, doesn’t it?
Personally, I do not “get” the friend at all! Odd question, from an ‘artist’.
Jean
There are many styles of art – even within the world of painting – that don’t appeal to me, but I still “get” them. I can understand how they might appeal to someone else, and I can find something to appreciate about most art. Not ALL, I admit, but most. Some things I don’t “get”. For instance, when I see a perfect red triangle on a perfect black square on a white background, and it’s supposed to represent something like the depravity of capitalism, I don’t get that. But I DO appreciate the irony of an artist making a statement decrying capitalism, but still hoping someone will give them $2000 for their painting of geometric shapes.
But what I don’t “get” is quite small. There are elements of every answer given above with which I agree. My own answer above gives my main feelings, but when you boil it down, I love the response, “Because that’s where the trees are.” [FONT=Georgia]Ben
If a painting goes terribly awry, just call it a "study" and don't sweat it.
Website: https://www.facebook.com/benrastarts/I loved looking at landscapes before I knew what the word meant. As young as six I remember drinking in the light, colour and atmosphere of the island where I grew up: rolling hills , lush fields and woods, red soil, the sea. I loved looking at it. Not surprising it’s my favorite thing to paint.
I guess people who buy my landscapes also like (what I like about) landscapes , so they “get” them.Wendy C&C always welcome
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Up until 1976 I was happy with just drawing in pencil or pen & ink and not much of that was landscapes anyway. Then my Dad bought an album called “Texas Country” which was a mix of various country artists from, or who played out of Texas. The front and back album cover were paintings with incredible western landscape work….that’s when I realised I’d love to learn to paint one day and paint landscapes that looked that good.
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I have no idea who the artist was but those paintings inspired me want to paint the land…and paint it as well as I could.Why landscapes? Because landscapes in general are too inspiring to pass up for heading into a cold studio and paint tubes of paint, cupcakes, bowls of fruit or teapots…..and “because that’s where the trees are” is a pretty darned good answer too.
RonI don’t paint landscapes. I paint how I see the landscape, and how it relates to me. But why would I need an excuse or a reason?
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