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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pat P, post: 119886, member: 201&quot;]I grew up with art... mother and several other family members were professional artists, took classes, occasionally played with the idea of pursuing art as a career, even taught art to kids for a couple of years. </p><p><br /></p><p>Despite my exposure, or maybe because of it, I&#039;ve never really liked looking at art from an academic standpoint. I usually recognize genres, but don&#039;t always remember the name for the genre, and mostly resist thinking in those terms.</p><p><br /></p><p>It seems to me that often the best art is something people do to express themselves, to make external something they envision or experience internally. Sometimes as a means to communicate with others or to earn a buck, but sometimes just simply to &quot;hear&quot; themselves in a visual way.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s natural for people to look for patterns and styles and group things together, study how one thing differs from another, and give things names. We all do it as part of living, it&#039;s how human brains work. Thinking and communication would be kind of difficult without doing that.</p><p><br /></p><p>I just don&#039;t approach artwork that way most of the time... I experience it mostly through my senses and, when it&#039;s good, on a spiritual level. I may think a little about why I like or don&#039;t like something, but rarely analyze it very much. Which is kind of ironic since I&#039;m someone who&#039;s been told I over-analyze things more than once over the years. I guess art, nature, anything beautiful is what I turn to to get away from left-brain thinking. And my hunch is that&#039;s often true of talented artists as they produce their works, too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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