By Krishanna Spencer
12 12 Artist-in-Residence & Web Maven
One of the reasons I don't often write about other people's art is that sometimes I can look at a work and have NO CLUE why the particular piece was composed but I like it. Often it doesn't occur to me to wonder about the story behind the artwork unless it is obviously a statement of some sort. It may be the color, it might be the way a certain technique was employed that draws toward a work of art. It might be how it makes me, the viewer, feel. It could be any number of things that draw me to a particular piece of art and capture my attention. But why the artist did what she or he did is not something that is always immediately apparent.
Indeed one of the things I am asked quite frequently about my own art is, 'Why' and to them I always say what the art says to you is far more important than any meaning I could attach to it for you.
This is why I was so glad to run across this article in the Wall Street Journal on the Lost Art of Writing About Art. Do check it out.
