Wednesday, July 1, 2009

The Rules - or Preferences...

One of the things I occasionally come across is the notion of 'the rules', mentioned as if words of some gospel... to some degree, there may be validity in this, as in dealing with realism there needs be some formulations that make good for the 3-D turned into the 2-D of the paper or other support being rendered on... but in terms of what makes for the showing, sometimes they stale the objective being desired... a case in point is the preceding rendering of an old barn, where there was criticism of it being in violation of 'the rule' that one does diagonals, not head-ons in rendering... of course, the proper response is to inquire as to the purpose of why doing it head-on... in this case, the obviousness of playing for the multitudes of textures in a sort of trompe l'oeil of the wall of the barn makes this 'rule' a burnout - the desired effect would be lost largely if the rendering had been done in diagonals...

There are many others of these one comes across every now and then - and the thing to remember is CONTEXT, the all important word in placing most anything according to what is wanted to be achieved, what it is of importance that the artist seeks to show, and how successfully is thus the showing [and remember, too, this implies that necessity of being able to communicate, to 'speak the language' - in this case seeing perceptual concretes, objects which make sense to the viewer - else is nothing but gibberish, and a failure of the artist, NOT the viewer in grasping the intentions of what is to be considered as of importance according to the artist]...

Indeed, in this particular case, can see a variation come to mind - being old and looking of multi-generational, one could do a version in which the wood and/or stones have been carved here and there with names and initials - "The Family Record" , so to speak - and am sure others could envision further variations, opening a whole crop of new renderings effectively done [to say nothing of colored ones, and ones in different time-of-day spans] and all based on this 'rule violator' ...

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