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Comment on Electric Blue by sittingpugs

sittingpugs — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:07:32 +0000

Video installation!

Comment on Electric Blue by kevmoore

kevmoore — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:56:06 +0000

The digital debate is a thorny one. i must say, I don’t know it can be argued that you put it in a photography exhibition. It’s clearly not a photograph – by definition a photograph is “…An image, especially a positive print, recorded by a camera and reproduced on a photosensitive surface….”
Whilst digital art can transform conventional mediums such sculpture, painting etc, and even photography, the definiton of ‘art” itself is highly controversial.
If you take the latin (skill, craft) and indo-european (arrangement)origins of the word, we can assume that this means art is whatever is described as having undergone a deliberate process of arrangement by an agent. In this case, you, Shelley! The philospher Heidegger theorized that art was the means by which we achieve self-expression, and your work is just that, your self-expression, so if they try to disqualify you, quote him!

Comment on Electric Blue by shelleymhouse

shelleymhouse — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:33:25 +0000

Thank you Sitting Pugs and Miki Yes, Miki, I’ve noticed the same problem here. Galleries only want original acrylic and oil paintings. It is frustrating. I am experimenting a little with acrylic paint right now, but I am not enjoying it very much.
It was suggested to me that my digital piece would be better suited in a photography show, but I’m not sure I see the fit there.

Comment on Electric Blue by Miki

Miki — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:51:57 +0000

I don’t know what is your experience, Shelley, but i find it very difficult to make people accept digital Art. I have had quite a lot of requests for some paintings which were digital art, but when the people hear what it is, they are no more interested! I think it is even worse here in Europe, where people want “Originals”.
Anyway, I love the electric pieces of your slide show! And I admire how you are going out now with your art.
Good luck!

Comment on The Unreasonable Man by viv66

viv66 — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:28:37 +0000

Well done Shelley!

Comment on The Unreasonable Man by Miki

Miki — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:17:02 +0000

Thank you so much, Shelley, I feel deeply touched to think that you will have this book on your coffee table! I hope you will love it…

Comment on Electric Blue by sittingpugs

sittingpugs — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:35:07 +0000

I hope you get in! It’s lovely.

Comment on Electric Blue by shelleymhouse

shelleymhouse — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:28:04 +0000

No, you’re not daft, Kev The gallery is much more accustomed to traditional art. I threw them off guard I guess with something “out of the norm.” I’m glad you like it. If it doesn’t make this show, I might enter it in a digital art competition in December.

Comment on The Unreasonable Man by shelleymhouse

shelleymhouse — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:15:35 +0000

Yay Miki! Congratulations! I’ll be ordering a copy for my coffee table right away

Comment on The Unreasonable Man by kevmoore

kevmoore — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:52:12 +0000

So pleased and proud of you to see this project with Tariq come to fruition after all your hard work. Now we can boast a real-world coffee-table book in our own Cybercafe!