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Originally Posted by weeijk
Some art critics got some work they had to judge, they judged it as very mature work, of what they thought, made by a very good artist. Afterwards they were told, that the art was made by monkeys.
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Sounds like untalented and unskilled critics to me, should the art world suffer because of this or should the critics suffer? By your own logic then the monkeys proved what? That there is no such thing as art?
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Originally Posted by weeijk
For me bonsai is/isn't art, It's the way I see my tree. I'll obviously try to make a copy of a mature tree in the woods, mountains or coastline. As you all know trees differ a lot depending where they stand. For instance, you hardly see cascade in a flat country, like Holland or coastal area's. Here you see much more upright and windswept trees.
So it may depend where you live, what you see in a bonsai.
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So, since I do not live in a tropical climate, I am unable to see art in a tropical bonsai? Good art transcends boundaries Wes, I can see the beauty of Van Gogh's "
Trees in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital" even though I have never been there. Or appreciate Monet's "
Poplars on the Epte" without ever walking the banks of the Epte.
Not all trees in nature are artistic, I have a few hundred dying elms up north that are anything but. If I copy these, then I will not have art.
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Originally Posted by weeijk
When you feel good at the work you're doing, why shouldn't that be good, regardless of how the tree according to critics should look like.
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It's all good Wes. But to advance you got to see beyond the feel good and step up and admit that there is more to aspire to. Of course, no one
has to advance.
Will Heath