There are a lot of kind of artist and a lot of kind of arts. We have just find which kind of art like to us. For example mr. Mapplethorpe is considering an artist right? For me he is not. If I look at some his pictures I can feel just something disgusting. I will never want one of his pictures on my wall. Edward Weston is just different for me. He is more "soft", but I don0t like his art anyways. But among all the artists that we have seen in the last lesson the worst for me is andreas serrano. His "shitty" pictures are horrible. Who is the most artistic? No one. Why? Maybe I can't understand them, I don't know. They are so strange.
All the modern arts is strange and I think that is harder to understand.
I love photography. I love take pictures. But I don't like this kind of pictures.
I really don't know what else I could say. :)
As Leonardo da Vinci investigated the depths of the human body and sectioned dead corps, so I try to section souls
Edvard Munch
Hi Enrico,
ReplyDeletethanks for your spirited response. I am sure that your being a photographer must mean that you have a fairly good sense of what you do and don't like in photography. I am surprised that you find the M. pictures disgusting, however. Can't the male body be as beautiful as the female, or are you objecting to all nudity in photography in general? I agree that the S. photos are "shitty," but he does make me clarify my own position, which can be helpful!
I think that i found M. disgusting because googeling i sow this site:
ReplyDeletehttp://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/archive/topics/censorship/photo.html
Maybe disgusting is too much for the other pictures. Even if it is not usually see a man body naked and it can produce a strange effect like unusual things.
Yes, strange effects is right! I will have to check out that site--thanks for the link.
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