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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;verybrad, post: 119866, member: 37&quot;]Agree but I do think you need some kind of vocabulary to&nbsp; understand and discuss a work of art.&nbsp; I did not peg the artists but, rather, the painting.&nbsp; Artists can work in different genres but paintings tend to fall somewhere, if only for sake of discussion.&nbsp; How do we discuss them otherwise beyond likes and dislikes, or critique of technique?&nbsp; These paintings were not created in a vacuum without influence or history.&nbsp; I really think that understanding this progresses one&#039;s appreciation for art.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know.&nbsp; Maybe people really don&#039;t want to dig that deep and is why we have not had a lot of discussion along these lines.&nbsp; I had an artist friend give me a little book on art appreciation when I first started collecting art.&nbsp; Within the first chapter was an assumption that really blew me away, as I had no grasp of art in this way.&nbsp; I will have to paraphrase but it went something like this:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;For some people there is no emotional reaction created by artistic endeavors. Their interests lie in cars, food, travel, or other pursuits.&nbsp;&nbsp; A painting is flat and lifeless for them.&nbsp; It will be very difficult to ever get them to appreciate art in the way that many do.&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Now, I am not saying that anyone who has contributed here falls in to the above category.&nbsp; I have to think that there are degrees of appreciation and maybe I should have no expectation that people are as passionate about art as I am.&nbsp; I also don&#039;t think that I know all there is to know about appreciating art. One of the reasons I created this thread was to be able to see how people respond to art.&nbsp; It is a continual learning process for me as a student, collector, and dealer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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