knoblock
Senior Member
As long as human beings are human, they will respond in the same ways to the same things. At the beginning of the 20th century some people thought there was a 'new art' and did play out the other side of a range of possibilities in visual arts and music, but most of it never resonated with people for the above reason. What you need to do is learn how to create images that play on those resonances, since that is the only realistic thing to do. You're not going to get any new ones, without genetic engineering changing those responses.
It's like stories without a beginning, middle and end. No matter how interesting or novel one or two might be, a story still has a beginning, middle and end as long as you want people to actually pay any attention to it, unless the non-linear narrative creates some resonance in the particular usage. Use the technique and form in service of the artistic goal, don't concentrate on whether it has been used before. What works works in the right situation works.
Or atonal music. No matter how you rearrange the notes, those darn humans keep organizing it into tonal centers.
Art generally moves forward when new technology is introduced creating new possibilities, that is probably your only chance for something new (see if you can find and read the introduction to Keepers of Light). But keep in mind it is limited by our innate responses.
Sometimes an artist can find something new to show us, but that is rare since the ability is rare and the opportunities rarer. When Adams photographed the wilderness it was something out of fashion during the social realist movement, yet the same wilderness had been photographed by stereo photographers in the 19th century like Watkins. They were not seen as art principally then, but are appreciated more now, perhaps since Adams and since nature became a popular interest. Temporarily going against the grain can make something seem new when it isn't.
It is more important to show others how you see the world than to worry about being different, since that is what art is all about, your expressions and how they resonate when you share them with others. Not one or the other.
Steve
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/knoblock/
It's like stories without a beginning, middle and end. No matter how interesting or novel one or two might be, a story still has a beginning, middle and end as long as you want people to actually pay any attention to it, unless the non-linear narrative creates some resonance in the particular usage. Use the technique and form in service of the artistic goal, don't concentrate on whether it has been used before. What works works in the right situation works.
Or atonal music. No matter how you rearrange the notes, those darn humans keep organizing it into tonal centers.
Art generally moves forward when new technology is introduced creating new possibilities, that is probably your only chance for something new (see if you can find and read the introduction to Keepers of Light). But keep in mind it is limited by our innate responses.
Sometimes an artist can find something new to show us, but that is rare since the ability is rare and the opportunities rarer. When Adams photographed the wilderness it was something out of fashion during the social realist movement, yet the same wilderness had been photographed by stereo photographers in the 19th century like Watkins. They were not seen as art principally then, but are appreciated more now, perhaps since Adams and since nature became a popular interest. Temporarily going against the grain can make something seem new when it isn't.
It is more important to show others how you see the world than to worry about being different, since that is what art is all about, your expressions and how they resonate when you share them with others. Not one or the other.
Steve
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/knoblock/
