Rob MacKillop
Edinburgh Correspondent
Nae pics, just text, I'm afraid...
I've started to get more interested in art - paintings, drawings, and the like - especially Dutch art of the 15th to 17th centuries - and plan to study a short Oxford University online course on 'Northern Renaissance Art, 1480-1580'. Although I've always been aware of art, visited galleries, etc, it is only very recently that I've started to really think about what these artists were trying to achieve, and how they set about doing it.
It's probably no coincidence that at the same time, I've become dissatisfied with my photography - although I do occasionally produce an 'interesting' image, I'm feeling the need to think more about context and meaning, and it has become clear to me that I know very little about the visual arts - something I need to rectify.
I'm wondering how many contributors here have an art background? I can think of Kev and Julian for starters. I'm wondering if they think that has helped them with composition, colour, etc, but also going beyond that into concepts, aesthetics, etc?
I've started to get more interested in art - paintings, drawings, and the like - especially Dutch art of the 15th to 17th centuries - and plan to study a short Oxford University online course on 'Northern Renaissance Art, 1480-1580'. Although I've always been aware of art, visited galleries, etc, it is only very recently that I've started to really think about what these artists were trying to achieve, and how they set about doing it.
It's probably no coincidence that at the same time, I've become dissatisfied with my photography - although I do occasionally produce an 'interesting' image, I'm feeling the need to think more about context and meaning, and it has become clear to me that I know very little about the visual arts - something I need to rectify.
I'm wondering how many contributors here have an art background? I can think of Kev and Julian for starters. I'm wondering if they think that has helped them with composition, colour, etc, but also going beyond that into concepts, aesthetics, etc?