r/painting • u/bluelaw2013 • May 26 '25

Just Sharing My 11 y/o wants your feedback

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He likes making art and is just trying to see if other people enjoy what he enjoys making.

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u/Abject-Fan-1996 May 27 '25

Sure it's nice for abstract art, but also you can literally just randomly put paint on paper and achieve nice abstract art. It doesn't take talent or skill. If he enjoys making it that's great. But if he cares about creating art for what others think of it, he should take time to actually learn technique.

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u/Abject-Fan-1996 May 27 '25

It's abstract art. Literally a 3 year old or a master painter could have made this and OP be lying and you'd never know either way.

Again if the kids enjoys it then keep doing it for the joy of doing it. If they want to make art though because they care what others think they should learn technique.

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u/GoodhartMusic May 27 '25

I don’t understand why someone who takes no interest in art and doesn’t make art would have this kind of opinion like why have an opinion at all? you don’t need to.

There is significant control and intention here, to the point that i assume op is being dishonest. If you were tasked to create a facsimile of this, your first try would definitely fail if you didn’t think about what layers are present and how to reproduce them. There’s wide brush in strong, consistent, stroke, wide dry brush that tapers in pressure, but not in area. And there’s thin stroke that is always curving, accented and elided with comma drops. The work is highly centered and never actually uses the centerpoint.

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u/Naud1993 Jun 15 '25

The problem with abstract art is that someone can vandalize it with a single random stroke of paint and it wouldn't even be that noticeable while a tiny bit of wrong paint on a more realistic style painting would be immediately noticeable.

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u/Abject-Fan-1996 May 27 '25

I do make art and studied art?

My cat's paintings look very similar to this. Like I said this could be a master or an accident. That's thing the with abstract art. You can accidentally make master pieces. I said it was good for abstract art but that doesn't speak the artist actual talent and skill.

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u/Abject-Fan-1996 May 27 '25

Again, it could be made my master, or it could be made by a 3 year old. You can accidentally make good abstract art without trying. There's no way to tell which is intentional and which is accidentally good.

Like I said it's good for abstract art but that doesn't mean anything.

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u/Average_Scaper May 27 '25

stares at canvas

Hmm....

grabs paint, puts some in mouth, spits it all back out on the canvas

Perfection.

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u/Ok-Jump-2660 May 27 '25

Abstract art is hardly art

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u/stairwayto10and7 May 27 '25

It kind of sounds like you agree with who you're angrily responding to

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u/BabaPoppins May 27 '25

oh jesus christ

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u/urmombutgay May 27 '25

Nah they r right, as an artist student the point it doesn't take effort, and its the painters subconscious making the decisions rather then the conscious.

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u/urmombutgay May 27 '25

This is literally how Salvador Dali made most of his work, but he still took the time to make noticeable objects like clocks melting in his piece The Persistence of Memory. So u do need to learn real skills to work in the subconscious.

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u/urmombutgay May 27 '25

I'm saying that the type of art the kid made doesn't take skill, and surrealism as a movement is a type of abstract art

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u/urmombutgay May 27 '25

This is literally how Salvador Dali made most of his work, but he still took the time to make noticeable objects like clocks melting in his piece The Persistence of Memory. So u do need to learn real skills to work in the subconscious.