Figure work and prudishness

dcorc wrote

on 10 Dec 2008 5:32 PM

I think you are the one wearing the blinders. Most of the pictures here which have any stars at all have 4 or 5 - doesn't this strike you as odd just on a mathematical basis?

I am through with this site.

I have better things to do with my time than arguing with people whose first response is to become personally abusive.

Comrade Vladimir wrote

on 10 Dec 2008 5:36 PM

dcorc:

I am through with this site.

I have better things to do with my time than arguing with people whose first response is to become personally abusive.

Hear Hear!

I too Have had it with here

this site holds no further interest for me

If I wanted to be insulted about my work I would go to a school playground!

Christopher M. Grimes wrote

on 10 Dec 2008 5:44 PM

Hey guys, I don't think anyone insulted your work, the discussion was about appropiate placement in galleries for different audiences.

Art is like religion and politics, if you discuss them there will be differences of opinion, but nothing worth fighting or arguing or especially QUITTING about.  Stay and make your contribution.

johanne7 wrote

on 11 Dec 2008 8:51 AM

Sorry if I came on too strong.  In all my years of painting I've had a lot of constructive criticism that while I might not have been really happy aabout it, when later I thought about it I was helped to do better pictures.  I did not mean to denigrate any of the work I just meant that by making the picture more three dimentional it would be a more engaging one.  I do think that may of the pictures shown on the site are wonderful and I can learn from them also.  I've found that the expression of the sitter of a portrait is the hardest to capture realistically and the expression of the picture in question was very well captured.

Jack hampton wrote

on 12 Feb 2009 2:34 PM

Figures, both male and female, have been artistically drawn and painted since the beginning of art.  If you really want to be an artist, and I use the word artist in the most professional sense, then it all begins with a detailed study of the human form.  The human form represents the most complete set of contours and surfaces in existance.  We, as artists must learn to represent them in the most exacting way.  To me, after you have learned those fundamentals, then you can go off on your own tangent if you desire to do so. 

I am not sure what these "ratings" represent.  Maybe it indicates that we are not as accomplished as the "Old Masters".  Is that a possibility? I seems to me that someone must these "ratings" are representing.

Just a thought.

Jack Hampton

Attempting to paint and draw in the tradition of "The Old Masters". A humbling experience!!!!

jeffery wrote

on 24 Apr 2009 11:10 AM

"I am also concerned that a campaign by a small number of members has resulted in the proposed fencing-off of figure-work into a separate gallery here. It seems to me that any art-site worthy of the name should be taking a stand in defence of figure-work as a valid form of artistic expression, and not encouraging prudery, nor allowing what I strongly suspect to be the religious right, from dictating conditions to the rest of us."

I really don't look at is a 'fencing-off'.  I am primarily interaested in figurative art and its really cool to navigate right to it.  All in all figurative art has been around forever.  There is nothing anyone can do to 'get rid of it' or hide it or change it.

patrickart wrote

on 20 Jun 2009 4:06 AM

i enjoy life drawing/painting the most . to me the human form is a work of art in its self. people say that figure drawing/painting is the hardest to do.

its really that the human form is the most recognized subject to humans. if an artist has someting out of place, anyone will see it right away. if you draw a tree and have a limb out of place no one will know.

for the most part every ones body is the same. when you get out of the shower i bet everyone looks at there body. so i dont understand why anyone would be offended by nudes in artwork.

just my 2 cents

Daniel J. Keys wrote

on 20 Jun 2009 11:04 PM

 While I do not personally have a problem with all nude figure art, the fact of the matter is that many do - thus the staff will be implementing a new feature in the gallery soon making it possible to avoid viewing what is considered to be "Mature" content. I completely give my consent to the staff regarding this new feature as I feel that young and impressionable artists need not be exposed to potentially offensive material - namely what is considered to be erotic. Eroticism if for adults (if it were any other way then post erotic paintings of the under-aged, and see what kind of response you'll get) thus we must consider those who belong to this forum that are not of age.

 This is probably a little late in coming [but refering to some of the first posts in this thread]: Please remember to exorcise restraint when refering to your fellow members; calling them "small-minded" and "prudish" is an unfriendly approach, and will not solve anything.

 We're all different, and exorcising a little tollerence - from both sides - goes a long way. :)

 -Daniel