Rolling is faster than riding

Love both versions.  A great phelosophy is explained here.  Love your works.  Best Regards,

It is very difficult to critique abstract works, particularly with regards to meaning. I once read an interview with Picasso in which he said that the nonsense critics wrote about his paintings sometimes reached extraordinary proportions! The worst I find is when you walk around museums and listen to the guides telling you what the painter had for breakfast!

And so, to concentrate on the creativity, it remains as always flourishing, the technique is personal and distinctive to your style as it should be also. To create shadows that correspond to physical reality would be closer to the realist movement started by Courbet, than to the surrealism that became fashionable almost a century later and characterizes much of your work. It is always a pleasure to visit your pages Pierre, sometimes I am amused, sometimes troubled, but I always leave enriched by the experience.

Hristaki, you made quite a speech and a good one! But you are wrong in one thing, a statue has been erected for the unknown roller-man!

Thank you for your thorough expressing your attitude to wards art in general and mine included!

PDE

Thank you Wanghan, I know you love my art but I think you should be more explicit about the philosophy in this one expressed if not a harsh critiquer as I asked for!

PDE

All well said as always John, I think but that you are more inclined to diplomacy than critique! I must say that this is a pure surreal work and categorized in abstracts only because PN doesn't know about surrealism!

In each , let's say category of art, style maybe would be more appropriate the rules of the aesthetics must be obeyed I think and the wrong done shadows give an impression of ugly! Not because they are not really in that angle, just because they are not straight in one line!

Picasso once did a advertising poster for a high budget partisan film and asked about the price he only asked for a box of Yugoslav wine!

PDE

With your images I get lost in trying to interpret their meanings, both on the surface and way down in the rabbit hole.  As a result, I rarely bring up matters of technique.  But if you want a "harsh critique" . . .

We see a bright sun in the background.  The horseback rider is closer to the sun than the rollerblader.  Yet his shadow is of the same degree of intensity.  It should be stronger, i.e., darker.

I hope this works for you.

Ciao,

michael

Of course it works Michael, this is surreal picture requiring surrealistic critique!

Thank you for that!

PDE

Very creative work Pierre, its fun and i love it. I love the comments of Alf above. I wont make any harsh comments but noting that you are greatly inspired by Salvatore Dali, not the same degree of talent though. Well done my friend!

Very best regards.

Paatrick

one of my favorites Pierre...your ability to come up with these images is great...the use of shadows here is wonderful...regards....David

Hey, Patrick! I thought you will never come to harsh critique my picture! I must see somewhere that Dali guy, people compare me with him and I haven't even seen what's he done!

Thank you, Patrick!

PDE

David, you are very kind! Thank you for that, my friend!

PDE

I really like the revised version. Keep up the fine work.

I'm not really satisfied of the quality of the work though, but I also like it more!

Thank you, Tony!

PDE

excellent and original composition, nice job Pierre

Thank you, Niki! You are very kind!

PDE

Hi Pierre, again a lot of discussions for yours “patented” shadows – I like them very much. Some times original is much better than correct. Best regards.

The truth, even the scientifically supported is dull, I agree with you my friend Evgeni! Wedird but original is more interesting and as such more attractive! 

Thank you for supporting me twice today only!

PDE

Wonderful piece of art. Correcting art like in the attached image is a total nonsense. How about reshaping a watch in Salvador Dali painting ? Changing color in Van Gogh painting to more natural shades?

Oh, welcome Andrew, long gone friend! You are returning from some other planet? You forgot that we live in two poles world, right and wrong, correct and incorrect, good and bad...etc!?

You gave us all a reprimand  and I would say a harsh reprimand for critiquing!

You are not right my friend! Four eyes see better than two! And there is some harmony, something we would all want to achieve, some balance, something that we call perfection and our minds know when the eyes see it or the ears hear it! But not always that fast and that good, therefore exists critique, debate, exchanging of views.

By the way you have told yours!

Thank you for your contribution to the discussion my dear friend!

PDE

Congrats - this is on today's daily sampling for photo.net.

Tony, it must be automatic machine choosing samples! The administrators can't stand me!

Thanks for your information!

PDE

I think this would be the final version, although not done well enough!

Welcome Saad, my friend! It's cheaper yes! Thank you for reminding me that, ha!

Tell me when you request critique next time, please!

PDE

Pierre!There is an old saving! trust comes on foot and leaves on hors,but now to rolling in the sand(trust based on loose sand) pierre very nice greative work !!! best regards janegbert