Dusty Death

Welcome another creative and talented photographer to Photonet, Lars..... I look forward to seeing many wonderful works created by you.

I am not much of a photoshop man myself, seeing this work make me feel stupid.

mmm we have cool stuff here :)

Tillykke Lars

 

Det går jo bare flot for dig her på PN .... og det er velfortjent. Hilsen Bente

Very cool, Lars!! I like the elements you included -- stock photos or not, they work!! I like the drama you've added with the darkening as well.

Mamma..Mia...a ..nightmare...!!!Very original work!

Well done!!!

man, i wish that i could use PS the way you do... fucking brilliant.

Looks a bit like a Dali, doesn't it?

Great photographic rendition of my favorite quote from Macbeth!

wonderful photoart expression! regards K.

I really love your work..Congrat..make me dream ..well done,,Dali..But I also agree with Peter A...Good question.....

Well done.

Very nice bit of extreme surrealism.

To Peter. No, it is a collage of many photographs which makes it many times more difficult. You see, FIRST you must start with a good photographs or three or four. You need a good photograph of clouds, a beach, a nude man with cloth blowing in the wind. Of course to pull this off, all the photographs must have the same tonality and lighting, as well as fit together to form a NEW image. Get it? It is a higher form of photography, requiring greater skills, knowledge, and imagination than a simple photograph would.

Sorry to Peter A and Frederic, but a good question to you to is, how is Lars' print NOT ART? I see this as art in every way; the more expressive an image is, as long as it evokes thought and is a way of perception unique to a person, then it is art in my opinion. Please don't put up the question of art because I believe nobody could define it, and even if somebody could, art is ever-evolving and part of the reason that we should respect it is that it is always beyond our definition, just as how spirituality is; if there are people who try to define it, they're usually people in the upper echelons of art practice who have been too regimentalized or too stuck with definition that they have forgotten what it feels like to respond to artworks straight from the gut. This is straight from the gut for me; these images do remind me a lot of my childhood, I can't say what aspect of it exactly, but thank you very much Lars. You Danish photographers are very good. And Peter and Frederic, I'd suggest you rethink your thoughts on art, before you bore yourselves to death!

I think Peter's comment is not about whether this is art, even though his tone also raises this question. His specific question is more around whether this is photography or not.

Well, this is a creation based on mixed media, not different from paintings on top of sculptures, or poetry on top of paintings. In this case it's graphic artistry on top of photograpy (the author did take the main photo). So I guess the answer to whether this is photography is 'yes and no'. The bigger question is 'Why does it matter?'

 

The era of separation of artforms dissapeared in the second half the the last century, and, even though you may like it or not, combining media and artforms is extremely common these days.

 

As far as whether this is art or not, if it has a creative component, then it is art (my own definition). Is it high art? is it wortwhile art? That is up to you. Does it stimulate your senses or your intellect? If neither, then it's just another instance (or form altogether) of art that doesn't resonate with you. We all have preferences. The best thing to do is to move on to the next item and try again. No point in puting down something that we don't get.

 

My $.02,

 

-LuisB

 

 

very mad, want to there! ;)

I love your images. I am a new fan. Bravo. You have a great flare for evoking moods and emotional tone. Not easily accomplished. You are certainly a pro! Cheers--7/7

Lee

Well done.

 

Excellent. Love your WOrk!

 

Biliana

Don't know what the missing comments are, but Luis above is righton the money; nice to run into people that actually know something about art history and the currents of new media works.

 

Very moveing image -