ShopDreamUp AI ArtDreamUp
Deviation Actions
In answer to: laurasface.deviantart.com/jour…
It depends entirely on what you mean by communication. Certainly ~Maldoror24 thinks communication equals transmission of an artistic statement and the intent of the artist.
Unfortunately the transmission/reception model of communication has been obsolete for over 50 years now. It simply does not work when compared to the body of evidence built up over the past century by educational psychologists and linguists etc.
People do not simply receive information, decode it in their brains, and then understand it miraculously.
An artist cannot embed their intention directly into their work and expect the audience to understand it. This simply does not happen.
The audience does not 'receive' a communication from the artist via a work of art. The audience CREATES meaning from a work of art by identifying structures that relate to their past experience. Each individual member of the audience creates meaning from a work of art from their own point of view.
The artist has no direct means of guiding the audience towards their intent. All they can do is provide 'hints' that relate to widely known concepts, and hope the audience joins the dots.
To sum up: 'Creating art' is not an act of communication at its core. Transmission of intent is a best case outcome for a published work of art. But the creation of a work of art is a distinct act from the publication and interpretation of a work of art by the audience.
If creating art has a 'core', it is the realisation of an idea within a work of art. Nothing more or less. 'Creating art' is only a small part of the cultural process within all of the arts.
It depends entirely on what you mean by communication. Certainly ~Maldoror24 thinks communication equals transmission of an artistic statement and the intent of the artist.
Unfortunately the transmission/reception model of communication has been obsolete for over 50 years now. It simply does not work when compared to the body of evidence built up over the past century by educational psychologists and linguists etc.
People do not simply receive information, decode it in their brains, and then understand it miraculously.
An artist cannot embed their intention directly into their work and expect the audience to understand it. This simply does not happen.
The audience does not 'receive' a communication from the artist via a work of art. The audience CREATES meaning from a work of art by identifying structures that relate to their past experience. Each individual member of the audience creates meaning from a work of art from their own point of view.
The artist has no direct means of guiding the audience towards their intent. All they can do is provide 'hints' that relate to widely known concepts, and hope the audience joins the dots.
To sum up: 'Creating art' is not an act of communication at its core. Transmission of intent is a best case outcome for a published work of art. But the creation of a work of art is a distinct act from the publication and interpretation of a work of art by the audience.
If creating art has a 'core', it is the realisation of an idea within a work of art. Nothing more or less. 'Creating art' is only a small part of the cultural process within all of the arts.
You have a universe on your desk
Many art forms are embedded within some of the most profitable careers in western culture. Wall paintings are just one of countless forms of visual art.
Designers are artists. Designers create the form and aesthetic appearance of our entire industrialised culture. Your home, your transport, the furniture, the clothing your ware the equipment you use everyday. From tooth brushes to the city skyline. Everything.
Human civilization is a symphony of countless works of art, most of which are taken for granted by people who drift through life wanting 'stuff', uninterested in understanding what they already have. The more you understand about the
The pain of bullying
I suffered 13 years of bullying at school.
Nothing is 'going on'. There is no grand conspiracy surrounding you. Teenagers are not disciplined enough to pull something like that off. Very few people are at any age.
Almost everyone you will ever meet, will spend most of their time thinking about themselves, not you.
Most people make what they say up as they go. What you have encountered is a few coincidences and spontaneous acts of peer group pressure, nothing more.
The most important thing to remember is THEY WILL FORGET ABOUT YOU, THE MOMENT YOU ARE OUT OF SITE. They will move on to another target if the opportunity arises, or not. It onl
Share your art secrets
In response to: http://kmye-chan.deviantart.com/journal/23304203/
Craft techniques are not important enough to hoard. Nor are ideas. Both are precursor elements in the making of works of art... little more than raw materials.
The most important aspect of your work is the living act of making, which is unique to yourself and everyone else. The physical combination of experience and imagination, transforms the nature of all ingredients, into an event beyond the sum of its parts.
If you have the time to worry about your 'tricks' then you are not concentrating on what is truly important: supercharging your visual literacy. In other words striv
RIP Hakubaikou
Artists are dead for most of their lives.
Long live Hakubaikou. http://hakubaikou.deviantart.com/
May her vision inspire future artists, along the path of excellence.
Long will her vision shine. Long after we today have all followed her, away from this tiny planet.
© 2009 - 2024 newepoch
Comments27
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In
I'd agree that this view is too black-and-white; there is strongly symbolic art whose viewers will understand instantly the meaning--Japanese comics, sequential art as a whole, Pre-Raphaelite, Art Nouveau, and many classical forms of art employ symbolism so strongly that one need only know the visual "language" in order to understand them. The use of symbolism is the simplest form of communication. Traffic signs communicate instant meaning, and somebody had to design them. Illustration is often termed "visual communication" because that's the purpose of illustration--to convey meaning, a scene, a concept, etc... and one would be hard pressed to see a meaning other than the artist's (and writer's) intent (unless the art itself is not communicative--poorly executed.)