I haven’t done one of these for months…
Picasso’s ‘ The Kiss’
Picasso - The Kiss
Watteau’s ‘The Faux Pas’
Watteau - The Faux Pas
Strang’s ‘Bank Holiday’
Strang - The Bank Holiday
Turner’s ‘Rain, steam and speed’
Turner - Rain, steam, speed
These images are undoubtedly Art. Would the same scenes photographed be considered Art? I suspect not. Two people kissing? Picasso’s use of typically unconventional techinque such as the multiple perspectives here is what makes it. An unconventional photograph wouldn’t be as striking, unless I could somehow make it orginally unconventional. What about a similar photograph from multiple perspectives? Would that be a bit like Hockney’s ‘joiners’? A photograph of a faux pas as Art? It’s the staging, the technique, the sense of voyeurism. If I could get that feeling across in a photograph, then maybe… A waiter and 2 customers ordering lunch or whatever on a bank holiday? How could I convince anyone that a photograph of this event be described as Art? A photographic equivalent of the Turner? Perhaps my favourite of the 4 images. A brilliant landscape. I’ve seen some good low-light landscape photography stuff, some good landscape HDR photography, but nothing as impressive, as striking, as exhilirating as this. Photography is not this kind of Art. And still the question remains: is photography any kind of Art?
