Sometimes it’s not that we don’t understand art, it’s that it itself is not art.

Art is really a metaphysics.

I previously participated in a sharing salon about the Jimei Arles Photography Exhibition.

In this discussion about art, I have to make some pretentious sighs:

1. The value of photographic art works lies more in the innovation of the works. And originality is an insufficient and unnecessary condition compared to the level of shooting.

There are two sets of works that impressed me deeply. One is a Japanese female photographer xxx. She takes pictures of people and places that are still living in the ruins of Japan’s past earthquakes and have been abandoned by the times. There is no sense of beauty in the picture at all, and it can even be called scary. There seems to be no photography technique, but it is somewhat thought-provoking.

The second group is a group of photos created by an artist during the epidemic, with various objects on the head in different patterns. Why can this be called art? How to distinguish between art and imaginative behavior? I asked the presenter this question. The speaker said that a famous photographer once asked the same question as me, but he also said: "I want to ask the creator what he thinks."

Emmmmm ..... SO ?

So friends, be confident and don’t think you don’t understand art.

Sometimes art that we cannot understand is not art in itself.

Come on, learn from Lu Yao and say:

"Go to the fucking art (literature)."

2. When looking at photography, don’t ask What do I think? I just don’t understand.

What I focus on is “perspective”.

People in photography look at things from a different perspective than ordinary people.

For example, it is the same death, but the death under Araki’s lens is so different.

You ask me, why do I need to know what others think?

Don’t you think it’s really boring that the same scene is always played over and over again in your world?

When people have an additional perspective on the world, they will always be more peaceful.

3. Truly great works can be understood by everyone.

Men, women and children can see his value at a glance. There is no need for curators to use gorgeous words to package and describe the work. A good work can speak for itself.

4. The value of some works takes time to settle.