I can't even explain myself today.
I'll try though.
Out of all the black pictures with white lines down the middle that I've produced over the years, that is by far the worst one.
As an artist who takes everything seriously, I'm supposed to be proud of everything I do.
Well, I'm not proud of that one.
That black picture with a white line down the middle didn't even take an hour to produce. This style is supposed to be speedy, but not that quick. It also looks nothing like a black picture with a white line down the middle. I tried really hard though, so I hope that's enough.
That was Seventeen Years Of My Life you just saw.
That one took forever to finish.
I'll be honest though.
The one you just saw is a replica of the real one.
When I was in school, I attended an art class, briefly.
I painted a black picture with a while line down the middle and called it Seventeen Years of My Life. The entire piece including the title was supposed to have a profound meaning.
I was finished, so I gave it to the teacher.
He said, "This is just a black picture with a white line down the middle." He was not impressed with my effort.
After all these years, I still don't see how Seventeen Years of My Life looks anything like A Black Picture With A White Line Down The Middle, but whatever, he was the expert, not me.
Anyway
That's all I got for you.
Have a nice day.
After heavy examination on the subject, i arrived to a sound conclusion, its not a black picture with a white line, its a white picture being enveloped by a black mist, thats the problem.
Ow no, you have solved the riddle of the universe! Now what is left for us puny humans to do?
Wow. You figured it out. The secret.
You are one of the bright minds that enlighten Steemit community. Halleluja to you.
Halleluja! Praise the sun!
Jajaja diecisiete años? Jajaja si es una eternidad, me gusto mas esa que la inicial, saludos :D
Hey @nonameslefttouse you sound a bit down today.
What's up... Is it the repetitive "Hello again" that's getting you down?
If so maybe swap it out with something like - "Oi it's me, I'm back!" or "Boo" - just be spontaneous it might be fun! 👍
Just joking around.
First of all i want to talk about the first one, if you see the first art up side down then you can see an super red creature with five legs and also reflects as out of this world creature, and i prefer towards unique art because people sometimes see in one glance but i like to see an art from every angle because we don't know which angle is holding an gem like an reflection and in first picture we can see that creature and that creature is literally reflecting as belongs to the era of dinosaurs.
I want to explain the second one too, it's not that simple and this art have great impact on me because this is reflecting as our great inner self peace in silent essence, means, for example when we do meditation we deep dive into world of peace where we try to see the light of peace and this art is reflecting as that light of peace.
Keep up this amazing art and thanks for sharing this post with us and wishing you an great day. Stay blessed. 🙂
So that would mean you said hello 1 million and one times? Because the first time I guess you didn't say "again"
I can tell you didn't fail math class.
wow, a very beautiful picture, and very difficult to guess, I think, behind this picture must have its own meaning. I am very salute for people who have an artistic soul, such as art to paint, because the soul of art is not owned by everyone, and art has a very high price. Any result of the image painted by a painter, surely it all has its own meaning in every result of his painting, and we are very difficult to guess. So in my opinion, the art of painting is very cool, and you have that artistic soul. I can never do such a job. Thanks for sharing @nonameslefttouse, and wish you a wonderful day... :)
I have never believed that art should follow any rules.
An artist who follows rules and not his heart is not an artist,
but rather, a craftsman.
If I do not understand the Mona Lisa, it does not cease to be art,
it just means that I do not understand it well enough to see the beauty.
If your teacher did not understand "Seventeen Years of My Life"
that does not mean it is not art, it just means he saw it through
the rules that he had for what art is or isn't.
The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency. Have a nice day @nonameslefttouse
It's good to read your story. But I was surprised to see your picture. Made in a very subtle and weird way. Thanks for giving us an opportunity to share.
The word has not only to spread, that would explain so much...
fabulous one!! have a nice day..
You should see his number 2's
I totally get it, it's obvious this is abstract art. In fact made me think of Barnett Newman's Onement I, it's a vertical line there but just though of it! :)
Reminds me of 2 am Saturday morning of years gone by...
I see the very beginning of life, the very vein of it's progression, the whoosh of it all! I thought you was a toad!
I was fortunate to go to an art school where they encouraged black pictures with white lines down the middle, and taught the technique as a fine art. Unfortunately I missed that day.
You'll never get those 17 years back.
I am sure you spent several hours to generate this idea and finally you shared with us the legendary Art of yours
Look at the picture OMG, it must be presented to some antique collection center :P :D :D
I see what you did there.
The problem with the "anything can be art" angle that has become so popular is that it's easy to "fake it." You can throw a few pieces of garbage together and assign your "sculpture" a "profound meaning," and call someone a jerk for not appreciating it, or go and sell it at an art show for 10k to someone who's afraid to acknowledge the truth: you took a greasy, empty chips bag, sat it on a stand, labeled it Untitled, then called it art.
But what is art then? This is a question I've asked myself over and over, and have never come up with any answers. They have neural networks now for creating computerised acid trips from normal photographs. The output of these algorithms is clearly enjoyable in several subjective ways, but can it be art? I don't think so. In my mind, art cannot be found; it cannot be generated; it must be born out of creative intent. That's what makes it art.
So I guess the question is... was your white line art? Really, I suppose the answer is... absolutely, if you intended it to be. If you had just been looking for an easy way out of the assignment, I don't think we could call it art then, because of the lack of creative intent.
This introduces an interesting problem! How can we check whether creative intent was present during the creation of a work? We can't. We just can't. There is no way to tell. We can go by patterns of previous behaviour or other contextual clues, but there is no all-knowing Art God of whom we can ask...
"O Lord, hast this piece Artistic value?"
Really then, it comes down to trust. The most fun part is this: in an ordinary, real world scenario, none of this matters! If you don't enjoy something someone has made, you are not required to consume it! So the only time something like this matters is in something like an art class.
And that's why I don't think assigning a "grade" (or any supposedly objective measure of quality) to any form of artwork makes much sense at all.
Wow, I really went on at length there. That probably could have been a post. Oh well! ^_^
Haha. Everyone giving those Barnett Newman and all kinds of answers. I could add some philosophical insights, obviously, as this is expected of a philosopher like myself, but I won't.
I'll just wish you a great day, and I hope you enjoyed making the replica of you master piece!
You would have done well in a conceptual art class with the white line. I see a resemblance to a Dr. Seuss character.
I classify all things of which I don't grasp the use or meaning as art. Your teacher was wrong.