What do you find beautiful in Paintings?

[Luca001]

A question for people who love and are inspired by paintings and sculpture.

What are the aspects that moves you in a painting or in a sculpture?Is it the history behind the picture, the hours put into it to master the art, the mistery behind a certain figure represented, the symbolism?Or maybe how pleasantly looking it is ,the harmony of the colors, the perfect proportions?
Or is it just intuition?You don’t know why but,it still makes you emotional?

 

What would it be your advise for people who haven’t yet find it so inspiring but are curious to go deeper?Why should people be more interested in art and if so, how would society be beneficially impacted by more interest in art?

Thank you

 

 

Edited January 31, 2022 by Luca001

[Flowerfaeiry]

The amount of hours that it takes to become a skilled artist is one of the things that is awe inspiring to me. Attention to detail and unique and new ideas are also things that moves me. 

[Preety_India]

The feeling, the vibe, the  emotion. 

[Danioover9000]

@Luca001

On 31/01/2022 at 7:27 PM, Luca001 said:

A question for people who love and are inspired by paintings and sculpture.

What are the aspects that moves you in a painting or in a sculpture?Is it the history behind the picture, the hours put into it to master the art, the mistery behind a certain figure represented, the symbolism?Or maybe how pleasantly looking it is ,the harmony of the colors, the perfect proportions?
Or is it just intuition?You don’t know why but,it still makes you emotional?

 

What would it be your advise for people who haven’t yet find it so inspiring but are curious to go deeper?Why should people be more interested in art and if so, how would society be beneficially impacted by more interest in art?

Thank you

 

 

   For me, what I love about painting:

   The colours used to represent the subject of reality, the perspective, proportions, values, graphical reading like light/darkness, contrasts, composition of the painting, learning about the artist and their sources of inspiration, their way of learning/training. All the questions from the first paragraph, and much more.

   Take advantage of the internet, and spend a set amount of time looking at paintings in Google images for example. Plan at some pount to visit an art gallery yourself, but for consistency do view them digitally.

   The question of whether people should be involved in art is a question based on morality and ethics, because of the word 'should' being used in the question. This depends on what value systems the population is brought up to in their society, what cognitive development they have, moral development, what personality types the person has, and life experiences so far as an individual, and history as a collective.

   For example, let's say the painting dipiction is realistic, has nudity, and has themes of sex, dreaming, divinity, magic and occult symbolism in parts of the buildings and the composition of the 3 figures. To a person, or group of people who are in the millennial generation that has stage green values, they would see the painting and have a different sense making compared to when a person/group of stage blue fundamentalists Islamists, Christians or Orthodox Jews sees the painting, because elements of the painting would have positve associations with stage green values, but negative associations to a stage blue fundamentalist. The moral development of a hippie, polygamous person, is much more than the morals of a religious extremist, because the sexual aspect isn't as repressed as in the fundamentalist.

[Luca001]

@Danioover9000 Eye openingt,thanks

[Salvijus]

I think great art is that which uplifts your spirit or can touch you in some deep way.