Once again, I can't give "yes" or "no" answers to your question... it depends. The world ain't black and white place where every question can be answered...
Ossi,
That's a superficial answer! Many things are clearly one or the other. Diamonds are not birds and grass is not an apple, a cockroach is not dung! Most things
can be clearly classified.
I doubt even you can give those answers for your pictures. If you can, then I'm pretty envy.....
Without these answers, forget about art. Photgraph product for bargain sales catalogs.
Every single picture I put forward to myself as art is one which must get positive answers on their deep value to me. If not I won't put further effort and I'll save disk space. If you cannot and will not rank things in their value to you, I doubt you can be an artist that I'd ever invest in.
Anyway, thanks for answers, this has been very interesting topic, I hope every of you have enjoyed it too......
Ossi,
I thought at first you were being honest and naive and so tried to answer to carefully set the bckground to a more cogent reply. However you and I have such different views. You already have a well packaged idea on how your stuff might be art and then there's no value to your question. Try selling it and it's not our concern whether you succeed or not. If you do not buy in to what interests us, why should we try to unravel what you might mean in the picture or intentions by your post?
I may be alone in this, but this discussion has not been either interesting not enjoyable yo me at least, since this is a one way conversation. There is no disclosure on your part. You are, essentially playing with us, presenting with what your computer generated. I have now little idea of how to deal with this, except perhaps to ignore such questions in the future.
It's disconcerting that you avoid disclosing your own value of your own picture.
All my questions only have a yes or no answer, unless one is trying to be evasive, mysterious or some unapproachable guru.
We all already know that once art moves out of the realm of the artist, it requires the new observer's own values and personality are put against your picture. So foget about the "mirror" analogy, we all know about that and
we want the step before that only The mirror pradigm is
zero news. to us here. Also it's no excuse to
not give an answer.
Well you can have a little more fun. People might engage a little more. For me however without your own intent and values, as requested, the answer to the question, "is it art" really has no meaning or interest to me. Further, I'm very sorry I answered in the first place and wasted my time and yours too. Art
must start as the work of the artist or the guy who finds it washed up on the beach. If that person has no love for it, then why should I bother. We have no end to work by artists committed to what they labor to show us. Either you are part of that group or you are not.
Forget about that anyone else thinks. For at, I must start with you the artist and what do you think!
All art can have a mirror quality but here we'll now specify it's not to be shown to anyone else yet yet!
Then my question
can be answered. If you, for example don't know that you would be devastated to lose the file for this image, then the subject is no longer worth discussion. I cannot give attention to art that you do not value.
The other questions are as simple.
My brother once discovered that he'd been negotiating with a buyer in an ex Soviet Government state for 10,000 IBM computers. However, the man in question did not have any authority for even 1 computer purchase! Qualifying a client is the first step in a transaction.
You need to qualify your relationship to your work to allow the question, "is it art"" or else you are just playing games with us. That's my strong opinion. In the absence of technical brilliance or some amazing artistic composition, I'd give such works no further attention.
Asher