• ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml
    431·
    2 months ago

    I felt this way about seeing the mona lisa. It’s like 50cm wide, and behind glass, and not that interesting… but there were probably 200 people crowded in front of it all looking at it through their phones.

    It’s almost like performance art or something.

    • Siethron@lemmy.world
      26·
      2 months ago

      I don’t understand why people take pictures of the mona Lisa. Professional photos of it exist online.

      • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world
        23·
        2 months ago

        The point is to show to others that you stood in front of something famous, the painting itself is of no value to these people

        • Nycto@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 months ago

          I also like to take pictures of art from alternate angles, which works better for sculpture than paintings.

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
      9·
      2 months ago

      I can’t imagine any of those photos are coming out well either, so I don’t understand the point. I can see a selfie or a picture of your family in front of it, but I’m never going to look at a phone pic of a framed painting behind glass at a distance.

      • modus@lemmy.world
        9·
        2 months ago

        You can look at it right after you watch the video of those New Year’s fireworks from 2019.

        • 5too@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          You just reminded me - somewhere I’ve got a video of my oldest kid seeing his first fireworks. Don’t think he was even toddling yet, and his grandmother was holding him.

          I don’t think he even has any memories of her when she was still lucid, I need to dig that out!

  • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
    30·
    2 months ago

    In my usual Wikipedia rabbit hole journey, I came across some lovely paintings the other day. I ended up going through the page of Johannes Vermeer, admiring a bunch of his works. Consider my surprise when I scrolled by a familiar painting, The Girl with the Pearl Earring. Although the artist’s name didn’t ring a bell at first, that painting is famous enough that it stopped me in my tracks. Go figure, he’s got all these detailed slice-of-life paintings that give a strong sense of what life was like for an average, middle class, Dutch person in the mid-1600s, and yet the only work of his I’d seen before was that one.

    I guess it’s kinda like how some musicians can put out multiple albums, yet be forever known as a “one hit wonder” because only one of their songs “made it big.”

    • psycotica0@lemmy.ca
      9·
      2 months ago

      I know it’s kinda off topic, but what I find even weirder are bands that are “one hit wonders” in one country, but have like 10 hits and a long career in another country.

      They’ll have a whole wikipedia article of awards they’ve won you’ve never heard of, and tours they went on, and you’re like “they wrote more than one song!?”

    • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Wanna have a ton of fun? Penn Jillette, of Penn & Teller, has a documentary following a guy who sets out in an adventure to prove that Vermeer used a primitive form of camera osbcura to make his paintings so realistic by making a painting himself in the theorized way. It’s called Tim’s Vermeer and it is incredibly fascinating as an insight into the obsession that Vermeer’s work still creates today.

  • hOrni@lemmy.world
    243·
    2 months ago

    Maybe they’re not worth looking at? Nobody ever tells You to listen to another song by Spin Doctors.

    • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      2 months ago

      Now I want to know which of Two Princes or Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong you haven’t heard yet. The two-hit-wonder disrespect here is staggering, I say. Staggering!

  • flux@lemmy.world
    111·
    2 months ago

    Marketing manipulation. We have been conditioned to precieve value in some things over others. It eleminates the idea that you as an individual have to engage and investigate to find your own value of a piece of art. I’m not saying that the popular pieces of an artist aren’t incredibly good. Just understand that an artist probably has dozens of other work you might want to engage with and appreciate.

    I’ve seen this soon many times at art museums. Sure Starry night and Mona Lisa are great but the artists’ other masterpieces are literally 10 steps away and people seem to casually ignore. The power of the totebag fridge magnets.

    • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      Yup most people seem to have no taste of their own, they only value what others have already liked, they have no personality of their own

    • lifeinlarkhall@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months ago

      Yes and this goes for all forms of arts. It’s not too different from just knowing that music legend for one song when they have a whole library. Poets too. Often have that one or two that “everyone” knows whilst some absolutely wonderful pieces can be lost and forgotten.

      It can be more personal, imo, to explore the pieces that aren’t spoken about as much, that already have a predefined narrative. That’s when you get to really organically perceive art - in whatever medium it is.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    It’s called the “Shot Gun Approach” … I learned it a long time ago with basic photography. I was so worried about being able to take great photos that I asked a professional photographer about it and he just said take lots of photos, as many as you can … the ‘Shotgun Approach’.

    You just snap a ton of stuff, stuff you think is good, stuff you think is important, stuff you want, stuff you think you should do, this stuff, that stuff, any stuff … just get the biggest memory card you can get or film or whatever and just take as many photos as you can of everything.

    When you get back, about 98% of all your photos will be shit … but you will have about a dozen great shots where people will comment on how great a photographer you are.

    You basically blast the entire activity with everything you got … like a shot gun blast … a true shot gun blast throws out a lot lead pellets in a general direction. Not all of them will hit their mark but several will.

    It’s better than the Sniper Approach … where you base all your energy, will and hopes into one single shot … you take all your energy and time into that one shot and if you miss, which is highly likely, you will lose everything and you will be forgotten.

    So whatever you are doing in life … just give it your all … most of it will be forgettable but a small part of it will be celebrated because people will think you were a genius for doing it. The more you do, the more likely you will be successful in something.

    • GamingChairModel@lemmy.world
      7·
      2 months ago

      Counterpoint: sometimes the best still shot requires a particular moment captured with a particular, consciously arranged setup.

      This interview of a veteran NBA photographer breaks it down of how he only has a single shot per shot because of how he necessarily relies on strobes set up to not distract the players or interfere with the broadcast. As a result, he scouts/studies each player and team so that he knows when the right moment is to actually capture the shot, because he can’t exactly ask players to do it again.

      If you read interviews of Pulitzer photography winners, they’ll often say a lot of the same things: being prepared and being lucky and having that convergence of having incredibly high skill/expertise/understanding of the setting, while being able to capture in every opportunity presented.

      You should capture a lot of photos and examine them to understand how to make them better, and increase your skill level and understand your subject so that you can still optimize for the very best shot possible.

  • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    What is the bottom right one in the second panel?

    ~Also, is it me or are those specific ones telling a story?~