Monday, February 27, 2006

A Valuable Lesson

My astute young friend Mr. George Barnhard of Ice Harbor Minnesota raised a very good point in his comment on utility materials removal, which appears below, under the "Bethpage Landscape" post.
He muses whether it might be beneficial to remove utility structures, for example telephone poles, in order to improve the artistic merit of an art piece. I have taken the liberty of illustrating this idea with a photo I took last year of a gorgeous summer sky. Unfortunately I could not avoid including in the shot a pole and wire or two in my composition. Now, some may argue that the unretouched picture, with intact telephone poles, is the preferable image, but I believe 9 out of 10 art experts prefer the less cluttered, more pastoral, composition of the bottom photo, where the poles have been delicately and carefully exorcised. Now the image softly chortles a beautiful melody of summer. Many would argue it is now poetry.

Sometimes it takes a little work, but there is almost always a way to take a striking image and make it even that much more strikingly beautiful.

Thank you George! A Gold Star and an A+ for you!!

6 Comments:

Anonymous Carolyn Wood said...

oh my gosh, this is TOO funny!
phantom telephone poles.
how to improve your art: step one: remove all telephone poles.

1:08 PM, March 01, 2006  
Anonymous George St.Bernard said...

I must confess that I was pleasantly surprised to see my suggestion acted upon. I've always said "I don't know much about Art, but I know what I like". Evidently, that's no longer true.

I will admit that the end result turned out somewhat different than how I'd envisioned it, but I guess it's not True Art unless I don't understand it.

I'm especially intrigued by the shadows of the trees cast upon the sky -- we don't see much of that up here in the Northland, probably because it's dark so much of the time.

Nice work!

-GSt.B

9:55 AM, March 17, 2006  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

sky scape appreciate it while its there. Telephone poles distinguish rich from poor and the old from new...

9:11 PM, October 28, 2009  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

oh and this is not art.

9:12 PM, October 28, 2009  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm especially intrigued by the shadows of the trees cast upon the sky

uh.. yep

9:13 PM, October 28, 2009  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

oh and this is not art.

9:13 PM, October 28, 2009  

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