Ok, I don't want to be the party pooper but seriously you guys wasn't the goal of this thread to start a new forum about some sort of 'art related topics' and that all the discussion about the perspective and so on should be a thread in this new forum instead of a discussion on this one?
After all the point of starting a specific forum was to avoid that this kind of discussion fall into the limbo, like all the other one there were until now, precisely because they weren't related to a specific forum...
So do we start the freaking forum or what?
Or may be I'm just missing the point
Man... tuff crowd!
Yes, the idea was to start getting some threads going regarding different basic fundamentals of art in the hopes that we might be able to examine how they could be used in bonsai.
It is my personal feeling that when one is a student of any other type of Art, these fundamentals are taught in order to better understand as well as create the Art. There are whole curriculums based around them at major institutions, yet when it comes to Bonsai... other than some basics, and some horticulture, we have zip.
I think their could be a better way of learning... So, much so, that in fact I am actually considering writing a book upon the subject, in the hopes that perhaps their might be a more generalized approach to doing bonsai.
My own personal observation regarding how bonsai is often taught is to learn the basics, and then do the art. Often views of how to go about doing the art vary on so many levels from instructor to instructor... and even more often, these instructors will teach that this is how one should go about doing the process in order to make the good art... yet I feel their teachings have more to do with personal opinion, then actual foundations of what makes art good.
Would it not be nice to have more of a universal guideline to what is the requirements of establishing good art than a personal feeling?
In the rest of the Art world... these guidelines have been followed and understood and are universally excepted... one can look at a sculpture, a painting, a drawing and can go through a list of the basic fundamentals of art that I wish to discuss and write the book about, and see how an artist viewed or used them to their advantage... and we can critique them on these fundamentals... in Bonsai however... we have, well that's a cool tree. Ask one why? And you will get fifty different answers... none of them based much upon principals one can learn from.
So, it's coming, Lol!
Rome was not built in a day, and I am sure when the holidays came, it took even longer!
