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Old Town Hall in Waischenfeld
  •  Comment - Does every artist know that, about flipping a painting? I have yet to hear that told to me or discussed by any of the hundreds of painters I know, including my father. I would question that, too - I think paintings are meant to be judged only right side up - but I'm curious to know if you have a convenient source for someone well-known who made that assertion. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 18:21, 16 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ikan Kekek, I have also heard the "look at the painting in a mirror". There are plenty of art tips that include both. [1], [2], [3], [4]. The idea is to free your mind from what you have painted and look at it with new eyes as if you haven't seen it before. Seeing it from another way, you see only lines and composition, not the object(s) in the painting. It's a version of the very old trick when you learn to paint or draw, to copy other images upside down so your brain will not get stuck in preconditioned ways. Another way is to draw the empty space between objects instead of the objects themselves. There are a number of these ways to see things in a new light. A really good painting will stand all these tests. --Cart (talk) 21:01, 16 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Cart, thanks for the links and remarks. At least one of those folks has real credentials, though for my own edification, I think I may ask my artist friends what they think of this idea and see if they agree. I think that concentrating on the empty space between objects and what shapes it makes is absolutely classic and has a lot to do with how still life painters set up their still life objects, so the idea of concentrating on the empty space in a drawing does sound like something any number of my artist friends could talk about. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 22:38, 16 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Thank you, Ikan, very much for your spontaneous discussion, and Cart for the provided links. My background: when attending university some 35 years ago I took a series of courses in oil painting, engraving, and photography throughout my stay both to broaden my knowledge of the arts in general and to balance my studies for my more mathematically centred main subject. One of our tutors' shared mantras, himself a skilled artist (died 2004, see this link (in German)), was that one should turn / mirror / flip one's painting, etching, or sketch ever so often during the creative process and it should appeal to the eye in every orientation. Also squinting your eyes to obscure the details and thus view mainly the balance of colours and of tonality is often very helpful. Even our then photography tutor agreed that a photographer with artistical aspirations will instinctively reflect on the same procedures either at the moment of shooting an image or later on during cropping. Of course this does not apply rigorously to mainly photographical reproductions, but even these may be aesthetically pleasing when well-balanced in the above respect. I do hope that this explanation is satisfactory for you. Franz van Duns (talk) 08:21, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • Sure it does. I can always stand to learn new things. I do know about squinting. I remember seeing my father do that a lot. Thanks for taking the time to explain. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 10:11, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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Result: 10 support, 5 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /BoothSift 22:35, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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