Fear and Art Response by: Zephan Dickey I can see why you chose this excerpt for us to write about, because it aligns quite nicely with one of the questions answered through the ‘Artist of the Week’ assignments; the question asking about what would change if someone replicated the artist’s works. The excerpt writes about how complex the artistic process is to do, as an artist. The artist must fully immerse themselves in their art to excel. The correlation between that idea and the concept of replicating art can be found through the idea of replication. In order to replicate art, the fabricator must first elevate the process that the original artist used to create their work. Steinbeck had written about the change in the value of art with the development of mass media and entertainment. The modern ideal art for most people would revolve around mass media though some may claim themselves connoisseurs of traditional paintings. It follows the emotio...
Jerry Uelsmann Jerry Uelsmann's work is ordinary at first glance, but something catches the eye of the viewer that looks completely out of place, making the work far more interesting and necessitating further inspection. I would categorize Uelsmann's works as monochrome artistic landscape photographs. His works, although monochromatic, are artistic and amplified, like David LaChapelle. And similarly to LaChapelle, I have a lot of time for Uelsmann's style of photography. If someone reproduced Uelsmann's work, the process could be redone with moderate ease thanks to programs like photoshop, where they could scrapbook a photo into the same style as Uelsmann. This would not be the same, though it would look similar. Artificially generated art also would yield a similar work, though many would consider that not to be art. “The camera is basically a license to explore.” My first thought after reading this quote is Uelsmann's idea is a really good way to get shot...
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