Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jun 6, 2011, at 11:46 PM, Phil Swango wrote: > George, what's your opinion of paintings that resemble (and thereby allude > to) photographs? If you're referring to the Photo Realist painters like Richard Estes <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_Estes.jpg> and Ralph Goings <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ralph_Goings.jpg> I respect for their work immensely. By incorporating the photographic sensibility into their paintings they added a significant chapter to the evolution of painting. The skill set to accomplish this sort of work <http://twentytwowords.com/2011/05/25/these-are-not-photographs-10-astonishingly-realistic-still-life-paintings/> as well as the aesthetic effect leaves a deep impression visually and historically. I also highly respect those, like Michael Kutsche, who push the digital pixels in fantastic (and painterly) ways <http://freshpics.blogspot.com/2009/02/michael-kutsche-digital-art.html> and George Grie <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Grie> <http://neosurrealism.artdigitaldesign.com/modern-artists/?images/digital-art/infinite-improbability-drive.jpg> Here again we see incredible skill sets and aesthetic sensibilities accomplishing amazing effects. I see these as much different than applying a filter or two to a digital photo file and ending up with a photograph which looks like it has brush strokes, though does not. I can easily see (and accept) using the PS filters as steps to take a photograph into another realm. For me it would mean that you then have to add your "hand" to the process. Meaning you need to go in there and push some pixels around to make it "uniquely yours." I do draw on an iPad and have done the occasional computer illustration with a Wacom tablet over the decades. Certainly the PS and and third party plug in filers are fun; and, as Jayanand pointed out, they can "save" a less than perfect photograph by bringing an artistic reference to cover up the photographic weaknesses. Yet, for me, a Seurat Plug-In, does not, in most cases, improve a "photograph" nor create a work of Art. Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist