RE: The Painting I Love That Won't Sell
April 27, 2016 at 5:20 am
(This post was last modified: April 27, 2016 at 5:25 am by ErGingerbreadMandude.)
First of all I think your painting is beautiful.
But if I had to point out some mistakes,well not really mistakes, just things that I think don't appeal to me - then I'd point out that this painting of yours doesn't inspire any sort of feeling in me. It doesn't give me room to interpret the painting as I like. People like to interpret paintings the way they like so if I had to give an advice it would be to make a painting in which you leave people room to interpret the painting the way they like that fits their current emotional state. In short I feel this painting lacks meaning, it feels emotionless, I don't know how else to word it.
For example ; instead of a sky, which is pretty null for most people, meaning which doesn't actually inspire any sort of feelings people can relate with, well most people, I guess.. My point is if you had made a painting of a man in a soldier uniform kneeling down and hugging his daughter, but left the face of the man blank - kind of creates meaning for the extra tubes you have on the painting,that the painter has left the painting unfinished, so it's up to the viewers to interpret it . This would also give people to interpret the painting the way they want to do that they can feel that they can relate with the feeling the painting is radiating. For example, some would interpret the painting as a soldier that returns after a war who will never be the same again, some will interpret it as the soldier losing his self in battle and having to rebuilt his ' self ' from the scratch..., some will interpret it as a man feeling lost over the fact that he has to leave his family to fight for his country,... I think these would create some kind of feelings in people that they feel they can relate with..
The leaving room for people to interpret it the way they want is a technique I've seen on many famous movies, the first one that comes to mind is the ending of the movie inception
Anyway, that's my opinion, again don't feel bad or anything , your painting looks really good and I am 100% sure nobody else over here at AF can make something as good as that, which itself make it kind of special.
Good luck!
But if I had to point out some mistakes,well not really mistakes, just things that I think don't appeal to me - then I'd point out that this painting of yours doesn't inspire any sort of feeling in me. It doesn't give me room to interpret the painting as I like. People like to interpret paintings the way they like so if I had to give an advice it would be to make a painting in which you leave people room to interpret the painting the way they like that fits their current emotional state. In short I feel this painting lacks meaning, it feels emotionless, I don't know how else to word it.
For example ; instead of a sky, which is pretty null for most people, meaning which doesn't actually inspire any sort of feelings people can relate with, well most people, I guess.. My point is if you had made a painting of a man in a soldier uniform kneeling down and hugging his daughter, but left the face of the man blank - kind of creates meaning for the extra tubes you have on the painting,that the painter has left the painting unfinished, so it's up to the viewers to interpret it . This would also give people to interpret the painting the way they want to do that they can feel that they can relate with the feeling the painting is radiating. For example, some would interpret the painting as a soldier that returns after a war who will never be the same again, some will interpret it as the soldier losing his self in battle and having to rebuilt his ' self ' from the scratch..., some will interpret it as a man feeling lost over the fact that he has to leave his family to fight for his country,... I think these would create some kind of feelings in people that they feel they can relate with..
The leaving room for people to interpret it the way they want is a technique I've seen on many famous movies, the first one that comes to mind is the ending of the movie inception
Anyway, that's my opinion, again don't feel bad or anything , your painting looks really good and I am 100% sure nobody else over here at AF can make something as good as that, which itself make it kind of special.
Good luck!
