Blind Painter
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- dbloc
probably old, but damn cool.
- Spookytim0
Great. Really great. But I couldn't help but notice he's painting to a raised impression on the canvas. If he created the raised impression to then shut my fuck up, but if he's just following a series of raised lines prepared for him from a posterised image... which it looked like, then, well... great therapy, but artistically speaking its just colour by numbers for blind people?
- dbloc0
I didn't notice that. I thought he was just using thick paint one color at a time.
- Spookytim0
Yeah, I can't be arsed to go back through to pick out some screenshots but its really clear in some areas that the picture is depicted in raised outline on the canvas. He's a cheater, A fake. A FAKE I TELL YOU. THAT BASTARDS NOT EVEN BLIND. MOTHER FUCKER SEEIN' EYED FORK TONGUED FLIMFLAMMER. I WANT MY MONEY BACK.
- rainman0
you try painting by numbers without your site... still tough. Plus he paints with color... try doing that... being able to distinguish between black and red... or red and pink...
pretty amazing
- Spookytim0
True, I did say in my first post that it was great, I just didn't think the fact that he was painting pictures meant his skill had any artistic merit. If he was pushing a frozen pea around a maze painted on a wooden floor using his nose I'd be equally impressed.
There is a whole 'school' of art by blind people and it is amazing. What they provide as visual material from a point of no vision is truly awesome. Learning to follow raised impressions on a canvas and apply colours accordingly isn't of any artistic merit.
I'm googling Raw Vision... the magazine of outsider art. It used to have a whole section devoted to blind painters. Not sure if its still in publication though.
- Spookytim0
Check this sheet out. They've changed the layout so I couldn't locate the blind artist's section, if indeed they still section it up, but you're bound to see some blind art in here. They don't try to transiterate the world of site and represent it as accurate, they create and interpret the world as they receive it.
- epigraph0
I'd rather see a piece of art that tells me something about how he relates to the world, than one where he tries to fake how sighted people experience things.
I wonder how fulfilling that is for him. How can he appreciate what he has done after the piece is finished? I feel like his reward must be praise from others...not an appreciation of something beautiful he has created.