My response to S.Cometa

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I think there is a misunderstanding here. Photography and cinematography are huge arts, I love them and I am very fond of them, but I am not talking of art now. however, I will later...
I was talking, why painting images differs from the images we see all around. In my opinion a painting is a charged image, because it has passed through the painter ... literary. Photography is a gross document, that's why sometimes it is so easily banalized. Of course the way photographers frame images, the composition they found is in their photography eyes only, and they can use filters and change shadows, tones, etc. but they are still working with an outside image, it is not an image that comes from the inside like painters do....S. Cometa, remember Chevalier book, when she describes the way a painter looks!

Painting is the result of the visual digestion a painter has made. A digestion thay may produce vomits and diarrheas too, like Caballero has said, but that`s another problem. See? we are not talking of Art...

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Anonymous said…
Of course we are talking about art¡¡¡ Art is the way we express our feelings about something, who do art have to be a sensitive person who needs thar kind of expresion. Odette, you are expressing your sensuality, (feeling) and your admiration for the human body (feeling) in your paintings. The photografer is trying to express what he feels when he see something special, something that make him feel. By the way, Odette, you do it in a very beautifull way and that make you a special artist,
15 February, 2007 21:49
Anonymous said…
Sandra, email me at: pslava@comcast.net
Love,
Paul
26 March, 2007 00:51
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