Time to Unclog Again (cont’d)

Oh, and another thing I’ve been thinking about: the peculiar harmony, balance, or whatever, that distinguishes the great works of art from the others.

For a picture, it’s the colors, the composition, etc. But that’s only the aspects which are expressible in words. When everything is right, the work clicks into greatness. For photography, there are some angles which can cause a given object or scene to click, where others would merely result in snapshots.

What’s interesting is that many of these qualities are entirely fluid, and depend on the history of that particular medium, school, or genre. What wouldn’t click in the past can click in the future because some aspect of a work is the inverse of, an attack upon, a parody of, etc., the rendition of that aspect in previous works.

And of course, some things turn into clichés, and the artworks can’t click with an experienced audience.

This would be interesting to study in an extremely constrained art form. Somebody should invent a form of art where the possibilities of expression are very limited, but not too limited to attract artists—there’s a balance here as well, and I feel there’s a sweet spot where the art form would boom the most.