[Lady Goldylocks]

I was just thinking about this. What exactly make you appreciate a piece of art? Is it something special that makes you like a piece? Are there some elements in works you've liked that are similar? Something you hate?

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I think I like that pictures contain something dark or mysterious. Or even morbid and grotesque to some extent. I really like when they contain a lot of symbolism and then especially towards death or something. I also like more positive traits, but then it's got to contain some emotion. That's another really important thing to me. If I can't see some emotion in the nature or persons, I usually don't like it. I also really like sublime elements (as in the element often used in the romanticism. It's often used in connection with landscape paintings, and it means that the painter try to paint something that both is really aesthetically beautiful, but at the same time shows something dangerous about the nature or scenery. It usually makes us feel small and the nature seem big).

When it comes to painting style, I like all kinds of different textures and such, but the really thoroughly painted pictures impress me the most.

I like movement, and diagonal composition better than harmonic and stiff ones (e.g baroque better than renaissance). I like dramatic and pregnant moments better than the more calm ones.

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Now, that was what I think. It turned out rather long. So what about you? What do you like and what don't you like so much?

This post has been edited by Lady Goldylocks: 25 February 2009 - 03:06 PM

[Blue Swords]

I like art that makes you think. Like Mobius Strips and the impossible triangle. I have about 5 books full of those kinds of pictures. I also like imaginitive things like animals people made-up.

My favorite art is pictures with nature, sunsets and forest and landscapes. I'm not entirely sure why I like it, it just makes me feel all hopeful and stuff.

[Lady Goldylocks]

So are you into optic illusions sort of things then? Yeah those are fascinating. To me they're sort of hypnotizing. You can't really stop staring at them

[Lady Goldylocks]

Bump What makes you like a picture?

[Saryna]

I like pictures that come close to photos, because they are so well drawn that everything looks amazingly real.
And I like aesthetic motives.

[Saeb]

I am not sure, but I believe myself to be an art 'critic,' of sorts, but nor a real one. Most art these days is splodge on a canvas; Fin. I know somebody who saw a show where they painted a man from head to toe, strung him up by his heel and swung him against a canvas. Hey, presto! Painting!
I also have heard that there was a very young child who did their adorable splodge hardly-recognisable paintings, and then someone sold it for lots of money. When the buyer found out that a young person made it...

I, do however love landscapes involving nature. The same way I am a fan of Paolini's elves and Du Weldenvarden and all of that. As long as it fits it well with the room it is hung in.

[avid reader]

I hate paintings/drawings that are so simple, it's just depressing. I saw a painting once that was literally a blank canvass accept for a single red square in the bottom left corner. That was it. And it was being showcased with many other similar paintings. I thought to myself, "A preschooler can do this. A purely non artistic person can do this. This is not art... this is simplicity." I dont know... some people like that... I just find in completely uninteresting. Art is supposed to compel us... inspire us... uplift us... spark our imagination. Last time I checked, squares and unrecognizable blobs really don't do any of those things... at least not for me.

[Old Rosebud]

^ seriously... Was that a painting? I can't even consider that as a drawing.

For me, paintings that are so colorful and bright. (too much of those) I hate that. I like dark and mysterious ones. Ones that look interesting for which/whom it is dedicated to. Something symbolic and creepy or scary or just mysterious.