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.

somewhere over the under
by jmritz

Comment:


what makes this art? the arms. One set is firmly supported against the earth. The other set is almost impossibly akimbo. The darkness and the blur dissolve everything else, helping us to focus on these arms. Some people think it's art because the arms on the left symbolize X and the arms on the right symbolize Y and together they symbolize blah blah, and that's supposed to be a deep interpretation of the art. But what really makes this art is that it makes you want to find symbolism, because it sets you off balance and makes you feel like there's another world behind this one. So, art isn't about the conclusions you draw, it's about creating a desire for conclusions.

Tempest
by flaherma

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so, what makes this art? I would say a lot of it is ambiguity. We know what is going on here. A woman is about to blow on a dandelion. But the photo seems like more than that. To me, it looks like she is about to eat the dandelion. She is so intense at this moment. Meanwhile, the sun is drawing its own picture on the lens, ignoring the natural forms of what's in front of us. And the framing is so close up that we lose the connection between foreground and background. The dandelion becomes its own sun. The grass is right against her face. She is kissing the sun.

Charlie
by MargaretNet

Comment:
if you want a higher score from me, you can contact me and tell me this isn't a picture of someone else's art.

Beautify your inner world with love, light and compassion
by PennyStreet

Comment:
good dynamic image

In The Shadow of Earth
by PaulFrocchi

Comment:
nice, elegant composition. best in show

hide-and-seek
by mariuca

Comment:

Originally posted by goodtempo: Nice, but I would have cropped it more so the man and the bear were more of the picture.

Nah. It's the context that makes them so remarkable and makes the viewer want to know more.

It is, in fact, this very desire to crop that gives the uncropped photo its power.

First Anniversary
by bob350

Comment:
I gave this a 7. I quite like it, actually. The pinks and grays are beautiful to my eyes, and the shot has a pleasing, balanced composition.

Three Girls in Belfast
by flaherma

Comment:
spooky.... so fair and foul a day ....

reflections
by tnun

Comment:
gorgeous