actually, I am currently on a mission to learn how to do those Renaissance type portraits...I really admire them
I actually haven't, but that sounds really interesting! My art history professor kinda treated them like they were just pretty pictures for people who couldn't afford actual flower arrangements and lobster dinners. I wanna read about this symbolism!do you know much about the symbolism in them? there's actually typically a narrative built out of what's included in the painting, built out of a vocabulary of icons. at least, that's what the people whose job it is to write essays about paintings say lol! maybe it really is just an homage to a nice breakfast, after all
i have an art degree, and in the course of earning it i collected a group of contacts & friends. i've had much better luck by remaining friends on facebook with people who would up working in museums, becoming professional artists in one way or another, teaching, or just kept on loving art, than i ever did by browsing one conglomerate website or another.
my advice is, if you have friends who make art, who love art, who teach art, then keep in touch. they'll curate for you -- and you curate for them, too. no art is created or appreciated in isolation; there is no isolation. we all live together in this earth, and even if we separate ourselves as much as we can, we're never alone: God is always present. you see a sunset by yourself? nope: God is there, the Artist Himself, showing you.
for example the link above - i found it through friendship with a musician who's friends with a photographer who's friends with someone else. a chain of acquaintances that brought me to befriend a sculpture professor in France, who shared the link originally. a woman there is no way in the world i ever would have met without link after link of acquaintance. would i have ever found that by browsing instagram? pfft. nope.
in whatever niche, make friends; keep them & appreciate them. thank God for them. they embiggen your world
just saying it because, hey, i devoted 6 years of university to art. i know artists are reclusive. i also know, isolating yourself can cause you to miss out. we're here not for ourselves, but for each other: learn to love mercy, learn to forgive, and God will reward you
i meant, i've found one in 300 images worth looking at by browsing deviant art etc. i've found 1 in 10 looking at what people whose aesthetics i admire share. it was more directed to Paisley, whose in university now -- to encourage her to keep in touch with the other people she befriends there, because down the road, she'll be glad she did, and it'll be worth more to her than access to the work of a thousand total strangers, in my experience. i'm grateful for the people that have found their way into my life
do you know much about the symbolism in them? there's actually typically a narrative built out of what's included in the painting, built out of a vocabulary of icons. at least, that's what the people whose job it is to write essays about paintings say lol! maybe it really is just an homage to a nice breakfast, after all
I'm not knowledgeable on art, (or anything really) but I remember being captivated by this painting that I saw online some time ago. Couldn't stop staring at it.
