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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Nice rant Drac! I actually agree with most of what you said, although I'm sure there are a couple of contradictions in there :) My personal opinion is that it [i]isn't[/i] art, although I obviously do think it's aesthetically pleasing or I wouldn't have stopped where I did. Having said that, is wasn't just "pure experimentation", it was a process of choosing the effects that gave the aesthetically pleasing result I wanted (including removing elements of the original picture that I didn't want in the final image), so perhaps I can justify the reasons behind the work - would it help if I came up with some arty waffle to describe my thought processes while I was clicking the mouse button? [quote]...you have to be able to justify how and why you make the artwork...[/quote] I'm interested in the word "how" in this sentence. What if I regarded my Photoshop image as a draft, and actually painted this picture. Would it be art then? Or will it never be art if I can't say "why" I made it, other than "it looks nice"? One final point - what about the artist who throws tins of paint at a blank canvas to see what happens? More often than not (I would suggest) the final result disappoints him and he throws it away, but occasionally he gets something he "likes" and keeps. Add some arty waffle, and he can sell it as art, but was the process leading up to that point not "pure experimentation"? If so, is it really art? Simon "I don't necessarily agree with everything I say." Loading...
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