tourist picture / diptych # 151 / kitchen sink # 31 ~ various things observed and then recorded without getting ethically, morally, personally or politically involved

late evening / Lake Champlain ~ Port Kent CC / Port Kent, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
displays / red and green ~ Kingston - Ontario, Canada / New York, NY • click to embiggen
sink sunlight ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggenA couple thoughts /notions worth considering ....

… subject matter is paramount to the experience of realist art forms, Mr Wall claims that, for him, it is "just the door that opens the way to the picture." He identifies Paul Cezanne as a good role model because he "detached himself from his subjects and just painted without getting ethically, morally, personally or politically involved. ~ commentary found on the web

While the picture-maker proves himself to be an artist by the selection of a subject particularly adapted to pictorial representation, by the thoroughness with which he grasps its salient characteristics, and by the vividness of his antecedent conception, he does so also by the reliance which he places on the methods of expression peculiar to his art. How few people realize that these are abstract and make their primary appeal to the eye ! Later, in the case of certain subjects, they may reach the intellect, but even then through the passage-way of the senses. In literature, on the contrary, the words travel direct to the intellect and may later arouse a brain impression as of a picture seen. But in the actual picture of painting or photography, it is the things seen which affect us, and the artist’s skill is shown in what he offers to our sight and ours in the receptivity of our vision. ~ Charles H. Caffin