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LCT_m_a_d
Jul '21
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Motivation slump... so let's just talk about arthistory (fun). I'm curious on your take.

Though this critical response is actually John Ruskin's impression on the notable artist JMW Turner, I'm also open to how writers respond to this. I think it equally applies.

The idea (along with many other passages) suggests that we (or at least Turner) are "better" with shapes and impressions similar to environments exposed though our childhood. (one of many Quotes below)

"Consequently, he attaches himself with the faithfullest child-love to everything that bears an image of the place he was born in. No matter how ugly it is,—has it anything about it like Maiden Lane, or like Thames' shore? If so, it shall be painted for their sake. Hence, to the very close of life, Turner could endure ugliness which no one else, of the same sensibility, would have borne with for an instant. Dead brick walls, blank square windows, old clothes, market-womanly types of humanity—anything fishy and muddy, like Billingsgate or Hungerford Market, had great attraction for him; black barges, patched sails, and every possible condition of fog."

For starters from my own experience, I grew up in a city where a culturally exciting downtown can be seen from a distance, but I didn't frequent downtown until much later in life. My art tends to include silhouette backgrounds impressing rich skylines. Ironically very few if any structures are clearly defined, except where there are industrial structures.

What about how it influences your work? What kinds of exposure? What kinds of depictions do you steer to in your art?

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skyfarron
Jul '21

I hear you! I grew up in a dirty, trashy sub-mountain highway stop, and as much as I like the way a city looks and feels, I still crave that same down-to-earth, hit-the-road vibe I was born in. Like at any point you can just leave and come back later, and that you can appreciate living somewhere affordable and small if it means you get to travel to the nicer places more often, and not be trapped in them. A tiny theater with only one screen, a Wal-Mart that's easily the nicest store in town, stuff like that.

LCT_m_a_d
Jul '21

Interesting, do you like to draw trashy scenes/environments? Or depict rundown neighborhood?

VibrantFoxRegular
Jul '21

I think this is one of those eye of the beholder kinds of situations. The places or environments we grow up in absolutely influence our perception of things so even places that one might see as "trashy" can be a sort of rustic beauty to another. Plus it's also worth noting that even in exploring new places you can find different muses so it's all in how a person looks at things

skyfarron
Jul '21
LCT_m_a_d

I tend to depict well-built environments under poor care by selfish people. Call me nostalgic!

LCT_m_a_d
Jul '21
VibrantFox

So I'm curious about how it influences your own work? What kind of exposure? What kinds of depictions do you steer to in your art?

LCT_m_a_d
Jul '21
skyfarron

It's interesting that the environments are well built which seems the opposite than I'd suspect.
But then again the "poor care" seems more Ruskin-esque

VibrantFoxRegular
Jul '21
LCT_m_a_d

My art itself is kinda limited in what I can draw but it probably reflects more when it comes to photos i've taken or things i've attempted to draw where exposure to folks from a myriad of background pushes me to try and display peoples uniqueness and differences in a positive light with character designs and backgrounds

or when it comes to setting i've been to and grown up in suburban areas as well as big city spaces not to mention visiting nature parks and other kinds of overgrown i guess the word would be places but i've noticed i'm less about the grandness of a space rather than the small moments that can happen in big spaces. So stuff like the lone rooms still lit in a busy skyline and the people laughing together in it or the duck splashing around in a small lake below a bridge.

personally i wish i was able to capture overgrown places like abandon buildings coated in vines or flooded halls of old castles or industrial buildings but the best i can do is seek others works

LCT_m_a_d
Jul '21

Well it sounds like Ruskin would expect contained wild foliage in your pieces. It's interesting that you look for those in other peices.