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Art you don't show anyone
Do you ever make something and never share it with anyone? Tonight, I wrote poetry that I don't want anyone to ever read. I'm going to do a nude self portrait series soon. Real nude, not the implied stuff I've been doing. I'll probably let my boy see, but no one else. Art for art's sake. Jun 11 14 11:15 pm Link Guess it's just me then lolz. Jun 12 14 05:28 pm Link All the time. I've written plays, stories, poetry, painted pictures, for no other purpose than that I wanted to. I've shot whole series with models for no other reason than that one or the other of us wanted to see how they'd come out. I've shot models from 18 to their early thirties just because they wanted to find out what it would be like to pose nude. I think that the willingness to do artistic things just for the fun of creating is one of the criteria that define artists as opposed to technicians. All IMHO as always. Jun 12 14 05:35 pm Link On occasion, yes. I tend to create with the idea of finding an audience to share with, though, so lots of stuff gets started and left unfinished because I don't have an audience for it. Some projects will languish for a long time until I find someplace to share them, then I finish them. Then there's all the stuff that gets done and shared with only a very small audience. I've written stacks of poetry that a handful of people got to read before it disappeared, for example. Jun 12 14 05:38 pm Link Alabaster Crowley wrote: While I am selective about who sees what, I don't think there is anything that no one has ever seen. Jun 12 14 06:18 pm Link 99% of the time. Jun 12 14 06:47 pm Link I sometimes start out taking a photograph that no one will ever see. But, if I like it I want to show it. So, the intent is there but I cave. Jun 12 14 06:55 pm Link Isis22 wrote: Sissi Jun 12 14 06:59 pm Link Alabaster Crowley wrote: Sure. Some of it, I don't think the people who matter to me will appreciate it at all. Sometimes I think a rational person won't appreciate it at all. Sometimes I think that while I see it's got merit for some audience out there, even I don't appreciate it, and so I'll just stick to what I like. Jun 12 14 08:25 pm Link Most of what I create isn't fit for "public consumption" . . .  Only the filtered stuff makes it through . . . SOS Jun 13 14 09:10 am Link I shoot a lot of stuff that never sees the light of day, beyond the model and myself. Jun 16 14 10:19 am Link The only stuff that doesn't get seen is garbage that shouldn't be seen Jun 16 14 10:25 am Link SPRINGHEEL wrote: That is exactly how I feel about my own photography work. Jun 16 14 10:34 am Link I have taken photos that won't be seen here. Jun 16 14 10:35 am Link Alabaster Crowley wrote: An interesting question. I shoot plenty of images that never see the light of day; they're called "outtakes". But the only time I've ever held back on displaying an executed concept, it was because the entire shoot turned out to be a goat rope from the get-go, with no chance of a re-shoot. Jun 16 14 10:36 am Link I've written two novels about 500 pages each, but nobody has read them but me. Jun 16 14 10:43 am Link Alabaster Crowley wrote: Yup. Jun 17 14 02:00 am Link I paint (acrylics) but have never shown them to anyone. Prolly never will. Jun 17 14 02:50 am Link Alabaster Crowley wrote: I'm available if you need another opinion... you know, for art's sake. Jun 17 14 08:32 am Link Show or submit to critique? In general, I'm okay showing people pretty much anything. On my web site, I display several dozen images from each photo session with commentary. I certainly show my favorites, but I'm also okay showing the near-misses & the total failures, because the bad photos are more educational than the successes, and I discuss them in the commentary. The one exception is that if a model requests that I don't post a picture, I'll tend to respect her wishes, but I'm as proud of my mistakes as I am with my best images. There is one exception: if you photograph nudes long enough, you'll run across a model who is interested in doing more erotic and/or explicit work. If the mood is right, I'm happy to accommodate such requests, but I don't always show the results, but sometimes I do. For example, this picture...  ... led to a pretty explicit girl-girl session -- I don't show these pictures around much at all. Jun 17 14 12:16 pm Link DougBPhoto wrote: Subtle. Jun 17 14 03:23 pm Link 
Photographer Posts: 4288 Amundsen-Scott - permanent station of the US, Unclaimed Sector, Antarctica Jun 17 14 03:29 pm Link Alabaster Crowley wrote: That's pretty much all of my art. Alabaster Crowley wrote: I'd say 99.99% of my "art" has never been "shared". Jun 17 14 05:16 pm Link Alabaster Crowley wrote: Many of us make assumptions and care not what the truth is, because as far as so many people are concerned, the only truth that matters is what we each as individuals believe. Jun 17 14 11:53 pm Link DougBPhoto wrote: lol okay Jun 18 14 12:22 am Link I almost never show my sketchbooks... to me they are love letters between me and the person posing... There is an intimacy that isn't there in the paintings... For me drawing is to draw out... and painting is to capture qualities... So basically no one sees my sketches... Jun 18 14 12:25 am Link Two Pears Studio wrote: There's a beauty in that. Jun 18 14 12:26 am Link Alabaster Crowley wrote: I used to offer sketches as payment in lieu of cash or as part of the trade... but now I don't. I hated to think what might happen to those drawings once they leave... Jun 18 14 12:30 am Link The real question (often overlooked on this thread) is... Why won't you show this private art around? Jun 18 14 07:23 am Link Looknsee Photography wrote: A few reasons. Firstly, I don't really think of myself as an artist. I don't consider what I do, either with brush or camera, to be art and hesitate to represent myself as such. The only reason I show my photographs is to have something to show models so that they can be reassured that I do know which end of the camera to point at them. My paintings are generally conjured from my imagination alone, no models required, no reason to show them around. Jun 18 14 07:35 am Link There are some things I've made to simply make and not show, most of it is in my mother's basement or my father's attic. I'll post experiments and such to Deviant Art where anyone who sees it won't take it beyond that first visual experience. I like to get it out there in some fashion to see if I'll get any feedback on how to progress in my art or marketing. Jun 18 14 07:35 am Link I live alone and cooking is one of my art forms so I would say I make art all the time that I don't and won't share with anyone. As far as photographs, there are some I won't share. I am not ashamed of my subject matter in most of them they just aren't technically very good and the subject matter is boring. I didn't think that when I was taking them though. I thought I was creating art. Jun 18 14 10:00 am Link The only stuff that doesn't get seen is garbage that shouldn't be seen Jun 18 14 10:59 am Link Looknsee Photography wrote: Because it's private. Jun 18 14 05:45 pm Link r T p wrote: Its easy for me. Jun 18 14 05:49 pm Link I should mention the two secret poems I wrote the other night are some of my best ever but no one will ever know. Jun 18 14 05:50 pm Link SPRINGHEEL wrote: Bam! You just gave me a shoot idea. Thanks:) Jun 18 14 05:51 pm Link Isis22 wrote: Very welcome, my dear. Let me know if and when the shots can be seen Jun 18 14 05:53 pm Link SPRINGHEEL wrote: I am not shooting right now, sprained ankle. I will just file it away in my pretty little head for future reference. Jun 18 14 05:57 pm Link Alabaster Crowley wrote: That's, like, 90-something percent of the creative process. You do the work, over and over, until you like it. Then, you throw it out. Then, you do something until you hate it, and you develop it more, and more, until you hate it slightly less... and then maybe you let someone read/see it. I do that with writing all the time, and I've heard many others I've known say the exact same thing lol Jun 19 14 05:59 am Link |
