tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22560219.post5150544081437467389..comments2023-12-07T20:31:28.197-05:00Comments on Islands of Joy: Thoughts on Aesthetics in the visual artsSørina Higginshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10907200327850346539noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22560219.post-47749196349898547582007-06-11T10:27:00.000-05:002007-06-11T10:27:00.000-05:00Dear Rosie,Thank you for your tips and suggestions...Dear Rosie,<BR/>Thank you for your tips and suggestions. I will try to put them into practice.<BR/><BR/>I have never taken a photography course before, but I have always loved taking pictures.<BR/><BR/>For me it has been a way not only to capture things...but sort of point them out.<BR/><BR/>It has been a blessings for me to use photography to catch details one so regularly misses such as the veins in a leaf... it seems so small an unimportant...as do many things. but it reminds me that God took time to make even the smallest and unsignificant structures.<BR/><BR/>They all show His glory and each and every thing has a purpose.<BR/>I find this encouraging and it gives me hope.<BR/><BR/>I love to esp. shoot nature sort of things...mostly because it is green. the color green means: "hope". && (it is my favorite color :-) ) But it amazes me and I am so grateful that God cares enough to surround us with things that rremind us that there is always hope. & he is always there.<BR/><BR/>Art is a gift from God.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22560219.post-53561562634599750712007-06-11T02:04:00.000-05:002007-06-11T02:04:00.000-05:00To Gem/Darlin: I don't know your email address, bu...To Gem/Darlin: I don't know your email address, but wanted to point you to the answer I posted to your question on <A HREF="http://spaceforgod.blogspot.com/2007/04/self-portraits.html" REL="nofollow">this post</A> on my blog.Rosie Pererahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09554035581795923555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22560219.post-7022725726575942732007-06-10T21:30:00.000-05:002007-06-10T21:30:00.000-05:00Gem/Darlin, thanks for your comments on my blog. I...Gem/Darlin, thanks for your comments on my blog. I'll reply here since I'm guessing you're more likely to check back here.<BR/><BR/>A couple of suggestions for you: keep exploring what you do best (which seems to be photographing the familiar in nature -- trees and water, etc. -- with interesting lighting and a quality of self-reflectivness). The more you work with what you know, the better you will get at it. But also try to find your weaknesses and work on those. If you are not thoroughly confident in the technical aspects of photography (exposure control, depth-of-field, etc.), I'd encourage you to take a class and practice those things until they become second nature. It will enhance your creative abilities. Other people can teach you about the creative aspects (composition, color, etc.), and it is good to have a basic foundation in those things, but ultimately it will come down to your own personal style, which could stray quite widely from the norm of what is considered beautiful and still make quite a powerful statement. Like poetic license, when you learn the "rules" well, you can break them more effectively. It's hard for me to tell, with such lo-resolution versions of your images, whether you've got the basics down well or not. So I'll refrain from commenting on those things. You seem to be farther along than I am in developing a personal style and having something to communicate with your art, so I congratulate you on that.<BR/><BR/>I also encourage you to read some of <A HREF="http://www.butzi.net" REL="nofollow">Paul Butzi's</A> <A HREF="http://www.butzi.net/articles/art_is_a_verb.htm" REL="nofollow">writings</A> on <A HREF="http://photomusings.wordpress.com/tag/art-is-a-verb" REL="nofollow">art as a verb</A>, as I find that idea very relevant for Christians. One of the reasons we do art is to glorify God and worship him through the very process of doing our art, not just through the final result. Our doing art would bring joy to him even if nobody else ever saw it. A few weeks ago, I was driving south on I-5 through Washington State, and the quality of light hitting the trees on the mountains with their multiple shades of green -- darker in the coniferous parts of the forest and lighter in the deciduous trees -- was nothing short of heavenly. I felt upwelling inside of me an uncontrollable urge to make a picture on the spot. Not a photograph, but a painting. I don't paint, but I wished then and there that I did, and that I had my paints with me. I didn't even have my camera with me. I told a friend about the experience later, and she said "oh yes, it would have been great to capture that scene, but it'll have to remain in your memory." But she didn't <B>get</B> it. It wasn't so I could "capture" the scenery and remember it or show it to others. It was so I could worship God for the glory of his creation, then and there, that I wanted to do the art. I think I'm finally growing into the kind of artist that God wants me to be, when that is my response to the beauty of his creation. I suggest you think about these things when doing your photography, and see if it helps you grow in your relationship with God.<BR/><BR/>KUTGW means "keep up the good work" (for future reference, you can look up acronyms on <A HREF="http://www.acronymfinder.com" REL="nofollow">Acronym Finder</A>).Rosie Pererahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09554035581795923555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22560219.post-44536175758538610922007-06-10T18:35:00.000-05:002007-06-10T18:35:00.000-05:00One clarification: my brother is four.I agree that...One clarification: my brother is four.<BR/><BR/>I agree that young children are very capable of recognizing beauty or creating art.<BR/><BR/>Because as we have discussed beauty is subjective and art is what on creates....<BR/><BR/>But non- the- less young children are very capapble of doing amazing things.<BR/><BR/>Thank you about the photographs: I have seen your photography blog & I like you work. Do you have any suggestions for me?<BR/><BR/>And at the risk of sounding ignorant: what does KUTGW mean?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22560219.post-75515278465754554752007-06-10T18:28:00.000-05:002007-06-10T18:28:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22560219.post-55928373864124358952007-06-10T17:10:00.000-05:002007-06-10T17:10:00.000-05:00Three-year-olds can do some pretty amazing things ...Three-year-olds can do some pretty amazing things (<A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSqUcrFJ498" REL="nofollow">see this for example</A>), so I wouldn't put it past them to be able to create art and recognize beauty. See also my earlier post <A HREF="http://iambicadmonit.blogspot.com/2006/03/teaching-art-to-young-people-or.html" REL="nofollow">"Teaching Art to Young People, or Learning it From Them?"</A><BR/><BR/>Nice photos, Gem. I like your color manipulations and the way you've captured your pensive interactions with Creation. KUTGW.Rosie Pererahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09554035581795923555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22560219.post-27874138965073496332007-06-09T09:33:00.000-05:002007-06-09T09:33:00.000-05:00I wanted to point out that the author of this pape...I wanted to point out that the author of this paper also had a visual component to her presentation. She read the paper aloud, then showed some works of art to illustrate her points. She showed some of her own sketches, one of her oil paintings, and a drawing by her 3-year-old brother. She asked us to discuss whether the 3-yr-old's attempt was "art," and we talked about intentionality in art--which see, under another post of that name.Sørina Higginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10907200327850346539noreply@blogger.com