Chris: re paintings that might be photographs: I suppose Andrew Wyeth is too
obvious. And then there is Gerald Kelly's "Saw Ohn Nyun".
Geoff C
From: "Chris Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Photography and the artworld
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 16:29:12 GMT
The question for the "Miller test" is: "which of the following are not
photographs or exact copies of same?" (in response to a set of both
paintings
and photographs)
Can anyone think of a single painting that you might have mistaken for a
photograph or photograph copy?
If the test included examples of Karsh photo portraits -- would anyone here
be
inclined to identify them as paintings?
I would hope not -- but then, one never knows.
There are, of course, many photographers who have tried to make their work
look like paintings -- and that would make for a difficult choice. Even
more
difficult would be those painters who try to make their paintings look like
photographs (even if they are not copies of them.
But I'm guessing (or maybe just hoping) that some testees will score 100%
--
and even they don't -- the range of scores should
indicate a certain kind of perceptual ability - a kind which I think should
distinguish who runs an art museum from who runs a bank.
(Other questions -- like "which photo portrait is as expressive as a
painted
one" might be more fun to contemplate, but there would
be greater controversy concerning whether the answer was wrong.)
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