Monday 13 June 2011

Drawings Paintings and Photos


One of the things I love about drawings and paintings is that often the artist inserts something of themselves into the picture of drawing. After all you could get 5 artists to paint the same building, person posing or even the same picture and there would be something different about each painting that would reflect the artists.

But can this even be true of Photos? After all they are still only taken from one perspective and it just happens to be the perspective that the photographer happened to be at or choose to take the photo from. If you look at the type of photos that my brother takes, compared to those that I take then you can clearly see the difference. Partially this is down to his ability with a camera but it does also include his personal style that he throws in too.

So what I’ve been wondering is do we actually add in something of ourselves into whatever we do or make.