Quote Originally Posted by shootme
I append here a couple of photos which I tried to take for its artistic appreciation, "A Painter at his Labor"..
The colors say something, the approach to painting tells me something, the direction of the painting, the artists feet, hands and brush, yet I don't include the entire body of the artist or his painting. For others, well it might not mean anything because it doesn't include the artist or his entire painting . .
The good thing about photo's is that they can mean something slightly different for each viewer, the ones that talk to you with some level of emotion good or bad are in my opinion, great achievements. But I'm really only a novice learning my way.:thumbsup: For me, the use of a close up gives a sense of closeness to the artist which along with the casual aspects of the hands & feet, stretching over the work (but not showing the artist) produces a subtle aspect in which the viewer isn't so much looking over the artist's shoulder but identitfing one self with the artist.
I showed this page to a friend with the pretext of viewing the content in context of my own work, she responded on your photos as being like painting a still life. Which is what I felt as if I had become part of the artistic expression (in a present/future tense), perhaps a better title would be "Labor of Painting".