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This whole issue about fractals being art and the right to copyright parameters seems to be calming down and the administration is taking a new, better informed stance on the subject. Please read Update on Fractals published earlier today, where $moonbeam13 and $lolly talk about new measures and policies.
Though most things have been said already, and in a quite vehement way, I would like to add my own reflections on the subject.
I think the question of parameters is clearer now and, thanks to the new chatroom #FantasticallyFractal created as a forum for fractal artists, further explanations and elucidations will come forth.
But there are more things involved in artistic creation than tools, and they are as important as the tools themselves. What happens when we open our fractal program to start working? We need to work in a certain direction, that may not be clear from the beginning but must necessarily become clear to us along the way. What marks this direction is our intention. As vague as this may sound, artistic creation is the result of a deliberate process. We mean to go somewhere, "say" something, express ourselves through the fractal image, as painters express themselves through painting and photographers through their photographs. (By the way, photography had to face the same problems of incomprehension and lack of recognition for decades before it was aknowledged as an art in its own right.)
What I want to stress here is that the process of fractal creation is personal. It is not random, it is not mechanical, it is not easy. Even if two fractalists worked with the same formulas, gradients and colouring algorithms, the results of their efforts would be very different, not only because the mathematical combinations are infinite and exclude random coincidence but also because they are two different artists, with different points of view on things, who will express themselves in entirely different ways.
I would invite everyone interested in the subject to read Kerry Mitchel's Fractal Art Manifesto. A clear, eminently informed and precise presentation of why fractals are art.
Artistic creation is the result of hard work, compositional skills, deep thought, self-examination, analysis of the tools at hand and awareness of our intention. If the work, the analysis and the intention belong to someone else, the work of art is theirs, not ours. That's why simply rendering someone else's parameters does not make the result ours.
It is not by chance that we use bright colours instead of dark ones, spirals instead of linear shapes, textures instead of flat colours, transforms and a long etcetera. It is because these elements mean something to us, and this something is personal and nontransferable. It comes from within and belongs only to us. Art is not a random process, it has its history and its rules. It requires study, knowledge and practice. Fractal art lacks none of the above.
Though most things have been said already, and in a quite vehement way, I would like to add my own reflections on the subject.
I think the question of parameters is clearer now and, thanks to the new chatroom #FantasticallyFractal created as a forum for fractal artists, further explanations and elucidations will come forth.
But there are more things involved in artistic creation than tools, and they are as important as the tools themselves. What happens when we open our fractal program to start working? We need to work in a certain direction, that may not be clear from the beginning but must necessarily become clear to us along the way. What marks this direction is our intention. As vague as this may sound, artistic creation is the result of a deliberate process. We mean to go somewhere, "say" something, express ourselves through the fractal image, as painters express themselves through painting and photographers through their photographs. (By the way, photography had to face the same problems of incomprehension and lack of recognition for decades before it was aknowledged as an art in its own right.)
What I want to stress here is that the process of fractal creation is personal. It is not random, it is not mechanical, it is not easy. Even if two fractalists worked with the same formulas, gradients and colouring algorithms, the results of their efforts would be very different, not only because the mathematical combinations are infinite and exclude random coincidence but also because they are two different artists, with different points of view on things, who will express themselves in entirely different ways.
I would invite everyone interested in the subject to read Kerry Mitchel's Fractal Art Manifesto. A clear, eminently informed and precise presentation of why fractals are art.
Artistic creation is the result of hard work, compositional skills, deep thought, self-examination, analysis of the tools at hand and awareness of our intention. If the work, the analysis and the intention belong to someone else, the work of art is theirs, not ours. That's why simply rendering someone else's parameters does not make the result ours.
It is not by chance that we use bright colours instead of dark ones, spirals instead of linear shapes, textures instead of flat colours, transforms and a long etcetera. It is because these elements mean something to us, and this something is personal and nontransferable. It comes from within and belongs only to us. Art is not a random process, it has its history and its rules. It requires study, knowledge and practice. Fractal art lacks none of the above.
for the love of leaves...
Hello dear friends from North, South, East and West! This is my first journal entry in Eclipse and there seems to be no preview button so I am opening myself to the surprise of what it will look like once submitted. I like the option of chosing a cover image though. A leafy, verdant image from my recent series of photographs. I have a feeling it's not over yet, I'm not done with it. It's becoming a long, slow exploration of my natural surroundings that seeks to capture the beauty and delicacy of Nature through certain details rather than more conventional panoramic views. Not that I have anything against panoramic views, mind you. But art is just a frame of mind, right? A picture-taking frame, in this case. As I mentioned under one of these photographs, I'm considering creating a photo book with a selection of them pictures. I'm already investigating designs and layouts. What will probably take some time are the short writings I would like to include in the publication. The
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Give deviantART a break for three days (May 1-2-3) in a silent protest against the enforced Eclipse
DDelighted!!
I spent all morning at the vet's today, worried about my kitty who has a polyp in her ear. She will be operated on to remove it in about two week's time. The good news is it's not a malignant growth :phew:
AND:
There's more good news: while I was biting my nails, waiting for the vet's diagnosis... I was getting a DD in deviantART!!!
"vegetable garden"
BIG SWEET thanks to C-91 (https://www.deviantart.com/c-91) for the feature :heart: I'm so happy that my fractal vegetables made first row in the market!
I also thank you all for faving and commenting :love:
My afternoon/evening schedule is full of English-conversation classes so I won't be around much for the rest of t
thank you!
Today was meant to be a lazy Saturday. But you know how Saturdays are, they have plans of their own. That's probably their prerogative but I wish they let us know in advance :shakefist:
So, as you have probably guessed, it turned out to be a busy Saturday, at least up to now. It's 15:22 in Spain and I was just able to sit down with a hot cup of chocolate . And with you.
You, by the way, are the reason that I've busied myself writing a journal entry. Because I want to thank you all for the warm welcome you have given to my new fractals. I was surprised to see that half of those who viewed my velvet and silk fractal faved it too! But then I p
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thank you so much!