Creeping Darkness
by glad2badad

Comment:


What is art? Art is two impossibly different things facing each other across an eternity and becoming one.

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through
by tate

Comment:
great texture with the verticals on the window contrasting with the diagonals of the fan motion. that is great motion blur by the way. I've only ever seen blur like that on butterflies.

All nature is but art unknown to thee - Alexander Pope
by grahamgator

Comment:
lovely ghostitude

no going back
by 2mccs

Comment:
spooky

actioned assistance
by NiallOTuama

Comment:
just on the edge of representing figures, with a good chunky texture

lost
by Abra

Comment:
visually striking. looks like stars

lost in the Milky Way
by jagar

Comment:


The sun is the artist of this photo, deciding what to show and what not to show, relating two beings who probably are not related. That is art, to cover and uncover, to expose and hide. Someone could write an essay about what the man means and what the ox means, and why he's walking out of frame while the ox is stolid, but that essay doesn't make it art. The art is what makes someone want to write the essay, and it makes ten people write ten different essays.

Rooftops
by mitalapo

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photography is to painting as nonfiction is to fiction. There might still be some metaphorical or symbolic weight to that man on the roof aping superman, but there is also the real man and whatever quotidian or personal reason he had to wear that shirt... and it haunts the symbolism. The same can be said about the composition, which is so visually appealing and strong, the flat surfaces spiraling into each other... cut by two figures and a ladder... but this composition is also haunted by the realities of these two people and who they might really be and what they might really be feeling. Art is in this tension between ideal beauty and concrete concerns... the sacred and the profane.

Lines
by Ammie

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Why is this art? Well, it's art in a very photographic way. It disorients us, takes some context away so foreground and background create one pattern. The architectural space and purpose disappear, and that vase floats in the same aether as the tree. Everything is just... lines.

The Passage of Time
by vawendy

Comment:


Putting a child next to an old man is the biggest cliche in the world, but to subvert a cliche is a great artistic pleasure. And this you do by putting the old man on a bike and having the young girl awkwardly waiting for ??? with a red heart balloon. And what's the chair for? In the middle of a field? It's so wonderfully dumb and campy. I mean, it sort of evokes more serious issues, like why is she waiting by an empty chair? Is it because society expects that when she grows up she needs a man to complete her? Meanwhile, the man is self-sufficient to the grave. The girl is clearly questioning this dichotomy. But at the same time, I'm not sure you really meant this, and I can just enjoy this as a nonsense collage of cliches. Your title, after all, only evokes the original cliche of my first sentence. Anyway, this is what art is about... collage, juxtaposing symbols and motifs in weird new ways. And I don't know what your intentions were, but art can happen accidentally.