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[stlukesguild]

Colorful flowers are cliché? What subject hasn’t been done to the point of cliché? Portraits? Landscapes? Cityscape? Animals? Nudes? Fruit?

 

[john]

Colorful flowers are cliché? What subject hasn’t been done to the point of cliché? Portraits? Landscapes? Cityscape? Animals? Nudes? Fruit?

You have a point, but not colorful flowers. And not a subject. I mean just the foreground hot colored flowers. With landscapes it's a such a convention to have hot color flowers in the forward. I personally just find it to be too obvious. I've done it with some of my paintings. Not a huge deal though. She sold it for fifty grand and it's a pretty painting.

 

[john]

I asked Google AI because I still find this confusing..... what is the difference between art and craft?

Key Differences:

• Purpose: Art is primarily focused on personal expression and evoking emotion or thought in the viewer. Craft, on the other hand, often emphasizes functionality and skill, creating objects designed for a specific purpose or use.
• Intent: Art is often created with the intention of being a unique and original work, while craft may involve the creation of multiple, similar objects. However, this isn't a hard and fast rule, as some artists work in series, and some craftspeople create one-of-a-kind pieces.

So the Mona Lisa is craft. It was made to be an object, designed to have use as a portrait. There is little personal expression. It may provoke emotion and thought in the viewer but that was not it's intent.