#understanding art

[danitalkscomics]

This book changed how I viewed media

When I was younger than I am on the day I type this (and certainly the day you read it) and was just learning how to appreciate art on a level beyond the superficial, I heard about this book.

It taught me to consider things about art, why the art took a certain form and why it didn't take another, depending on its purpose.

What is the art trying to communicate, how is it doing so, and how easy does it want the understanding to come to you?

Its fascinating on a historical level.

It's educational.

its free if you're clever

idk, book recs, that would make a better case if the sentences i wrote actually connected to the pages i chose.

check it out its on the archive

[kunoichi-ume]

My art textbook is randomly super dramatic like this. "Long after their flesh had rejoined the elements from which it was composed". You mean died. Seriously this book is stupidly big and this is why. 13 words to say "after they died."

[honeysuck1e]

[drinkgravy]

please please please does anyone have that little arty comic about understanding art where the parent lifts up the child to look at the painting and then the painting reflects them???? I think they're also kind of dogs it's yellow with simple black line drawings

[forgottenbones]

When I was in college, my boyfriend was an English major convinced he was going to write the Great American Novel. He spent the entire relationship putting conversations he & I had in the book, absolutely verbatim, & then berating me when I called it out because "IT'S FICTION"...

— Hilary Thomas (they/them) (@airspaniel) July 8, 2021

The plot of his novel involved a guy his age who was in college & was WOEFULLY MISUNDERSTOOD by everyone, especially his cruel girlfriend. He was in love with the girl who lived in the dorms across the street, because she listened to him & respected him...

— Hilary Thomas (they/them) (@airspaniel) July 8, 2021

And EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. I said "hey, I'm not comfortable with you putting my words out here like this" or "It really seems like you're writing from life here. Do you have a thing for [redacted]?" he would scream bloody murder at me because I didn't UNDERSTAND...

— Hilary Thomas (they/them) (@airspaniel) July 8, 2021

Anyway, he ended up trying to cheat on me with [redacted], who was a good friend of mine, so that didn't work out for him. And he successfully cheated on me with somebody at a party, & lied to my face about it for years, even through health scares where I needed to know...

— Hilary Thomas (they/them) (@airspaniel) July 8, 2021

So I guess all I'm saying is wow I'm a little bit triggered by all this cat person stuff, for reasons having not much to do with the stuff itself. 0_o

— Hilary Thomas (they/them) (@airspaniel) July 8, 2021

[stephtbc]

When I look at a painting this is what I see.

When friends and family ask why I enjoy going to museums or art exhibits, I could never find the words to express why. (At least not aloud #trials_of_an_introvert)

He presents it so beautifully with words that evokes passion and sadness, a sense of mourning. The idea that the perspective could symbolize a memory is one I never thought of and one I absolutely love.

[flommus]

THE WAR ON ART, TODAY by Rose Fante

READ MOR HERE

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