A Minor Contribution

[Drewbacca]

The more something is tied to telling a story the more I like it, since I feel art has always been a medium designed for such things. The only story abstract can convey is whatever people feel like making up on the spot limited only by their ability to bullshit and pull random words out of their ass. A lot of art is simply "there" and doesn't do or tell dick, hence I think most art is worthless crap.

While I may not like Yoshitaka Amano's style very much (he has great ideas but the drawings beneath the paint look on the technical level of an average high-schooler) I did love his Hero series and Dream Hunters, just because they actually had something behind them. And no, I don't count a person's personal struggle to create art a story for their art to tell.

P.S. This doesn't count if it's cubist. I don't care if a story is being told, cubism looks like crap regardless.

I don't see art in strictly a storytelling medium at all (in order to be great). Every piece of non-commercial artwork is as much about expression as it is about story (of course it's up to every individual artist to choose the reason for the piece done). If abstract can convey an emotion or feeling that the artists want to convey more accurately, then that's all the better and enough for me.

Different strokes.

I do know that Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase is almost 100 years old (it will be in 7 years) is one of the best pieces I have seen that properly captured movement. But I can easily see how Diego Velasquez, Las Meninas would interest more people since it did tell an interesting tale about the actual times it was painted in (which I think is mid 1600's. That's an estimate off the top of my head though).

Different strokes.

[Dyne]

The more something is tied to telling a story the more I like it, since I feel art has always been a medium designed for such things. The only story abstract can convey is whatever people feel like making up on the spot limited only by their ability to bullshit and pull random words out of their ass. A lot of art is simply "there" and doesn't do or tell dick, hence I think most art is worthless crap.

i agree 100% with you and that is exactly why almost none of my art "professors" liked me during my tenure. they would all sit and say that art is about opinion, yet when you have your own and its against theirs they hate it.

[Drewbacca]

I've never met a professor like that.

[Hero]

I've never met a professor like that.

I have. They're evil.