/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

His sense of rhythm , form and color are fantastic. Its harmony.

Some people here will tell you its not cool to like him because drawing is all about rendering things JUST AS THEY ARE AND NO DIFFERENTLY - but what the fuck is the point of mastery if you can't take it then and experiment? Why not learn to spin a pencil between your fingers instead?

I'm not about to say that you should try to understand every art movement that ever existed, but if you can't extend yourself to like VanGogh or at the very least deeply understand WHY his art is so popular, as an artist, you'll put yourself at a severe disadvantage.

>>2006782
I want to go through this point by point but I'm too lazy. My aim isn't to make an enemy out of you anyway.

Let me put it like this: art has never been about copying life exactly. Art has always been about the idea. This is true for abstract expressionists, and this is true for the photorealistic painter. A photorealistic painter, after all, isn't just painting the first thing he sees; he is calling your attention an idea, be it a rhythm or pattern or scene he had imagined.

I don't love modern/ contemporary art over the old stuff (or the other way around), but you do yourself no good by turning a blind eye to a century of artistic exploration.

>>1737537
van Gogh