For me, personally, my pleasure in art is making it, not looking at it, and there is definitely no "getting" the stuff I do: I do it because I like the subject, it's personal to me or it's pretty.
Fine art, to me, is entirely subjective in terms of whether you "get" it, or even whether there's something to "get" at all. If a piece of abstract art or a piece without a subject with which I can relate is trying to convey a message or stir emotions in me it's often gotta whollup me over the head with a 4x4 in order for me to "get" it, but maybe that's just me. I guess I don't go looking for symbolic or metaphorical meaning in fine art so, consequently, remain relatively unmoved by it. :p A lot of the time it my enjoyment of a piece of art often has to do with what kind of mood I'm in and since that changes, so does my receptivity to art that you have to "get".
Unless it's got animals in it. I'm always moved emotionally by animals.
Fine art, to me, is entirely subjective in terms of whether you "get" it, or even whether there's something to "get" at all. If a piece of abstract art or a piece without a subject with which I can relate is trying to convey a message or stir emotions in me it's often gotta whollup me over the head with a 4x4 in order for me to "get" it, but maybe that's just me. I guess I don't go looking for symbolic or metaphorical meaning in fine art so, consequently, remain relatively unmoved by it. :p A lot of the time it my enjoyment of a piece of art often has to do with what kind of mood I'm in and since that changes, so does my receptivity to art that you have to "get".
Unless it's got animals in it. I'm always moved emotionally by animals.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
