Re:What does “outsider artist” even mean? (2012)
by nafey on Monday July 23, 2018 @02:44AM
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I have heard it being explained as invention of photography necessitated a different approach to art. As realism was no longer only possible through an artist they had to go in a different direction. Impressionism, which can perhaps be regarded as the first major artistic movement that tried to move away from realism, also began around the invention of camera.
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Re:What does “outsider artist” even mean? (2012)
by Viliam1234 on Monday July 23, 2018 @04:33PM
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Why can't that "different approach" be simply painting (realistically) things that don't exist?
For example:
Pictures of something that existed in the past, but was destroyed. Or someone who died. Or a younger portrait of someone.
Pictures that differ from reality, such as putting together two famous buildings that actually exist in different cities, near-equator stuff covered by snow, scenes containing objects with incorrect size... Or impossible structures, like Escher did, only more realistically.
Science fiction, fantasy, fairy tales...
Painting a "realistic" dragon requires skills, and cannot be replaced by photography. Why don't modern artists show their skills at this?