Interesting (to me anyway) article on why some people tend to be drawn to dark, moody, ‘sad’ - ?especially B&W? - photographs. Even though the article doesn’t actually mention photography.
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“If we avoid sadness in life, why do we seek it in art?“
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Interesting (to me anyway) article on why some people tend to be drawn to dark, moody, ‘sad’ - ?especially B&W? - photographs. Even though the article doesn’t actually mention photography.
I haven't yet read it, but the trouble with sadness is that however hard you might try to avoid it, it's always going to come to you one way or another. It's life's yin & yang; there are no mountains without valleys, no joy without the counterbalance of sadness. And sadness tends to express itself best in art and writing. Perhaps we both prepare ourselves for its inevitability, and seek to exorcise it, through artistic creativity.
I think that sadness will always find you, it all depends how you cope with it.
Life is hard and we all know what's what at the end of the day.
History appears to be shaped by sadness, we as the human race are shaped by it.
Main events especially in war are mile stones in history, the British won the battle of Waterloo, but how sad was it to the people there and the ones that lost their lives that day.
Its claimed as a victory but in reality its a very sad thing.
So throughout history there are paintings, eye witness accounts and many more things, which shield us from sadness.
I think the word I am looking for is Glorious, in a way we are now conditioned to be resilient over such things.
Now when good things happen, not a lot is really said about that, it would appear that is not worthy of time to be spent on it.
Robert Falcon Scott, his trip to the pole, well we all know what the outcome was, but he and his crew are more famous than the people that actually made it first to the pole.
Sadness became more of a story.
Life is hard and we all know what's what at the end of the day.
History appears to be shaped by sadness, we as the human race are shaped by it.
Main events especially in war are mile stones in history, the British won the battle of Waterloo, but how sad was it to the people there and the ones that lost their lives that day.
Its claimed as a victory but in reality its a very sad thing.
So throughout history there are paintings, eye witness accounts and many more things, which shield us from sadness.
I think the word I am looking for is Glorious, in a way we are now conditioned to be resilient over such things.
Now when good things happen, not a lot is really said about that, it would appear that is not worthy of time to be spent on it.
Robert Falcon Scott, his trip to the pole, well we all know what the outcome was, but he and his crew are more famous than the people that actually made it first to the pole.
Sadness became more of a story.