Like the Mona Lisa. Turners's masterpieces. Your child's picture of you, any picture in fact what does it say to you?
2006-10-12 01:18:29 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
I really want to address your question well, but I am not sure how.
This is my way of expressing my answer and I hope it makes some sense!
I write, and I also paint. I find writing easier than painting. I find painting less frustrating than writing, because you can see the way the whole picture is going and is intended to go and will go, all at the same time. (No skipping back pages etc.)
I am not very skillful at either!
Someone once commissioned me to do a painting from a children's classic, and I chose the first verse of "The Owl and The Pussycat" by Edward Lear. It was a huge mural but took me only a day to do because I knew the story. That is only 64 words, but the painting speaks so many more more! There is the original story, and most people know that to some degree, but there are also all the little details the image conjured up to me - the golden mouse as a figurehead on the mast; the cat (a beautifully vain Chinchilla) with a red rose between her teeth, clutching a half-empty carafe of red wine .. the honey jar is behind her and a few valiant bees are still buzzing around it. The Owl, looking rather intense, has been plucking at the guitar strings so hard, that one has broken and is flying free, leading the eye to the full moon and stars above; and they haven't yet made the open sea - the boat is gently pushing its way through various coloured lotus-lilies. There's more, but I won't bore you. My point is, I started out with 64 words but my painting has turned it into so many more ... and that is just a fun painting, done to amuse children.
A painting really can speak a million words ... there is no way my silly painting can compare to any masterpiece, but just wanted to prove it can be done - you look and you see story upon story unfold.
2006-10-12 04:28:10 · answer #1 · answered by kiteeze 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pictures like the Mona Lisa definitely paint a 1000 words. Some other pictures (esp so-called examples of modern art) just convey 1 word to me - crap.
2006-10-12 01:22:36 · answer #2 · answered by Peace 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a picture before me of my husband and me standing on a beach outside the place where we were then living, with the wreck of a ship in the background, the vibrant yet subtle shades of the Caribbean Sea, hints of rocks, the trunk of a palm tree reaching way out beyond the frame and left to the viewer's imagination and ourselves captured at a moment of serenity, our shadows falling beneath our feet. It was a moment of joy and peace and the portrait is rendered all the more poignant because I know now that Hurricane Ivan was to change our lives for ever. The whole emotion of life as it was then comes flooding back to me as I view it -- more than words can convey.
2006-10-12 01:33:01 · answer #3 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not just a thousand word, but tastes, smells and sounds.
I can almost see a picture come to life if it's good.
I suck at music, food and such things, but I have an eye for color, and pictures and paintings are the things that cheer me up most (or gets me down, depending on the content)
2006-10-12 01:27:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anria A 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For me it has to be photo's/pictures because they capture perfectly for good or bad a moment in time .When we look at a photo we remember that family gathering or wedding or being on that holiday,they are visual memory aids which stir our sense of joy or sadness,they capture the essence of nostalgia.
As the saying goes "a picture is worth 1000 words" so every photo is a story on its own !
2006-10-12 02:30:54 · answer #5 · answered by any 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm more into photography and YES definitely, to me a picture paints more than a thousand words, the sentiment they contain is inexpressable - too much emotion
2006-10-12 01:28:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes a picture very often paint's a thousand word's, as does silence speak volume's.
2006-10-12 01:22:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. A picture reaches you symbolically and subliminally, through pre-literate, post-literate, illiterate and sub-literate contexts.
Words, by their very nature, have a level of literalness and, so, heaviness that pictures always are without. Words are like a person in your face talking at you, telling you how to feel and what to feel; a picture is like another person viewed from a distance -- their agenda is unfathomable, if they have one, and you draw your own conclusions.
2006-10-12 02:01:56 · answer #8 · answered by martino 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It says a thousand words and more, some pictures i can't even begin to put into words tho, like my daughters first ever painting. i could sit and stare at it for ages!
2006-10-12 01:20:01 · answer #9 · answered by Andromeda Newton™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A picture tells a thousand words. It doesn't necessarily paint any.
2006-10-12 01:55:07 · answer #10 · answered by LORD Z 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋