Conceptually,
fine art is created uppermost for
aesthetic expression and appeal. Art, which seeks purpose through
beautiful or significant modes. Exhibiting
the artist and the subject matter in a relatively complex and
intensified dimension, exceeding the common degree or measure.
The
fine art photographer reveals his own identity to the public forum
using imagery as a vehicle.
The
artist's intellectual and emotional persona is exposed by the
immediate objects of his thoughts in simple apprehension.
Fine
art is singular, absent of advertising agencies and art directors,
pure and disciplined commanding commitment to the concept.
Photographers, true to the art form, compose one hundred percent
through the camera. The viewer experiences an unaltered composition
exactly as the creator did at the time of exposure, the decisive
moment.
Manipulating
the original composition in the darkroom or electronically renders
the image incomplete, therefore no longer art.
High
art is a more esoteric term which portrays the identical phenomenon.
Fine art or high art, whichever terminology one chooses, the emphasis
and perspective evolve, and as a result, become less tangible,
more abstract. The subject matter assumes the back seat.
By comparison, commercial art exists solely for monetary gain.
Commerciality is the end result. Fine art lives beyond a product's
shelf life into life's infinity.
-
Greg
Kelly -
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