With me ,It seems to be the opposite. When I arrive at the basic
design, It's usually the unexpected.
It's that point when strange and attractive happens, the point when I
realize something new is there.
The ordinary happens when trying too hard, and get in way of the
serendipitous to happen.
And in the case of the viewer, the same thing happens. The viewer's
expectation are super imposed on the new experience and the pleasant
or unpleasant thing happens.
mando
On Jan 14, 2009, at 12:55 PM, Michael Brady wrote:
On Jan 13, 2009, at 10:54 PM, Bela Cos wrote:
Work creates the taste? Could that mean that the viewer was seeing
something unexpected? Or do we always see what we expect to see?
In a message dated 1/13/09 4:56:58 PM, [email protected]
writes:
In fact, the best situation is when the work creates the taste
and not the other way around.
From the artist's point of view:
In my experience, an artist chooses to finish a piece that he
likes, that is, one that satisfies him in some artistic or creative
way. Works that don't satisfy--ones that he doesn't like--are
abandoned or, if finished, then never shown. Typically. In my
experience. "Liking" a piece implies that the work meets the
artist's standards of taste. Seems straightforward.
To personalize this, whatever I paint (and complete) embodies my
sense of taste in various ways, even if the work shows nonstandard,
odd, exotic, unusual forms. If I do something that is very
unorthodox, and I find that it "works" and I like it and use it
further, then that new form has created my taste for it.
From the viewer's point of view:
When a viewer sees a new WoA and encounters some unexpected,
unexperienced form in the work, then he or she is left with two
reactions: to accept it and incorporate the new forms into their
personal 'canon' of taste, or to reject it. (The third way, to be
indifferent, has the same effect as rejecting it, because the
viewer's taste is not changed.) Impressionism, cubism, surrealism,
abstract expressionism, etc.--all of these genres or styles of art
presented the viewer with very surprising forms, which were either
rejected or accepted.
Taste does follow the work, and only rarely precedes it.
BTW, this is very much like the actual experience of taste. You
don't know whether you'll like something until you try it. They
already have a description of this principle: "The proof of the
pudding is in the eating."
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Michael Brady
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