I'm a 3D Kinda Guy.

[swestrup]

I had a very minor epiphany the other day. I was watching a show about great paintings and, as usual, they left me cold. I once took a one-semester course in art appreciation and discovered that the majority of the worlds masterpieces are paintings that I would pay not to own. Oh, by the end of it we had seen 2 paintings and one sculpture that I would like to have, but considering that each class consisted of looking at a hundred or so slides of artwork, that's not saying much.

Anyway, at the end of the show there was a brief view of a piece of modernistic glass scupture and I found myself thinking "Okay, THAT I wouldn't mind owing." In fact, thinking back, it seems that I have always liked sculpture. There were thousands of paintings displayed to me in that art class and only 2 I liked. We were shown maybe a dozen sculptures and there was one I wanted. The ratios are telling.

So, its not that I am an unsophisticated lout when it comes to art, I am just planar-challenged. I like my art in 3D, with a texture and a shape that calls for it to be touched and felt. So, now when I become rich and want to be a patron of the arts, I'll know what categories to go shopping in.

Comments

[terheyt.livejournal.com]

I never liked Picasso's stuff at all, until I had a chance to see it in person. There was one piece that captivated me. When looked at flat on, like in a reproduction print or art book, it was a bunch of black and white speckles.

But then I saw it in person, saw the textures and angles of the scoops of paint. That man GROKKED how light moved, and reflected and refracted. He drank deep of the knowledge, and he conveyed it in this piece. But you'd never be able to tell from a print or a slide. It was only in close up examination of the original that I could "get it".

It may be that you don't like prints and reproductions, and haven't been exposed to some of the better originals. Or it could be that we have different tastes. Really nothing wrong with either, just wanted to at my couple of pennies.

[swestrup]

I suspect that the facts that I am both red-green color-blind and lack stereoscopic vision means that many painting techniques that simulate reality just don't work on me.

Or, maybe I just don't like flat art. I'm not sure.

[joenotcharles.livejournal.com]

I was also going to mention paintings that have inches thick swathes of paint on them (some of the Anselm Keifer that was just at the ACM was like that). It's neat how it basically changes from a picture to a sculpture as you get closer.