I will never understand how painter can draw abstract figures and call it a fine art. Sometimes it is just some lines thick and thin, drawn in all direction. Sometimes just a black colored splat, at the edge of the canvas. And painter call it a fine art.
I am truly confused. I can make sense of the beauty of Mona Lisa, or at least a picture of a magnificent building. It is easy to relate and understand the objective of the painting of that kind. But the so called abstract painting; god knows what it is trying to tell us.
However, if an abstract painting is viewed by a hundred person, there will be a hundred interpretation. Every interpretation is somewhat unique. Probably none of the interpretation really matches with the interpretation of the painter himself, but who cares, person make up a sense of what they see and try to understand what they see.
Obviously, paintings are for people to enjoy seeing. Not for us to really try understand the emotion of it. It will be simple enough to say either it is beautiful, or not beautiful. Painter's first instinct perhaps is to paint a beautiful art. It is not to tell a story. Rather, the story is hidden within the beauty of the art itself. One has to be drawn into the beauty of the painting itself, before interpreting the emotion of the painting. Without the natural instinct of liking the painting, one will never be able to dive deep into the emotion and thought of the painter.
We may feel weird, if our friend likes a painting but we don't, and we like a painting the our friend don't. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
3 comments:
True! Sometimes I think the painter did something wrong with the painting. but didnt want to waste his paint and paper.. so he/she called it abstract painting with no meaning at all.. But suddenly many ppl are asking what does the painting means, so the painter has to create some explanation or title for the picture.. my daughter is a great painter too... since she was 3 years old hehehe....every painting has a meaning for her even if it was just a big splat of black paint on a white paper, when asked, she never fail to explain what does the painting means. :)
..ya, agree with you..
Imagination and Interpretation sometimes does not match. Sometimes do.
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