/lit/ - Literature

>>16955293
I cannot say what is being communicated. There are artists who choose to portray the light of a sunset, or the tree under the sunset, or the sky in that same frame, each because they decided that was an element of beauty. Visual communication still needs to be articulate, but it is a language other than speech. so it cannot be expressed in speech. There are artists who portray death and pain. There is as much range in expression in the visual arts as there is in speech, it only works on a different level.
Contemporary art fails because it tries to say nothing. You look at it and you have to come up with your own emotions to project onto it, or read what you are supposed to feel about it from a book.
>>16955332
>I think that is less emotion than it is justice done to the subject -- an adequate representation. The rules of craft. These things were taught in workshops and Academies, not a pure expression of the artist.
But the greatest Academics were concerned with emotion,
"When an artist begins to count strokes instead of regarding nature he is lost. This preoccupation with technique, at the expense of truth and sincerity, is the principal fault I find in much of the work of modern painters."
It was never pure craft. Craft is mastery of expression much like mastery of the language. If art is nothing but an empty exercise it might impress, but it won't communicate much.