Which style do guys like better? (Artist not me)

[cieddss]

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

If we're talking about wall art, the right.

 

[Xavier X]

The left has some great use of texture, but it might be a little too macabre for many.

 

[BellaPippin]

I don't like abstract art so I'll always go with the most representational one. Pollock can go eat churros. (?)

 

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[BellaPippin]

The left has some great use of texture, but it might be a little too macabre for many.

 

[broswoodwork]

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I see a face made of dirty laundry.

It's got its head cocked slightly challenging me to stay more on top of my laundry.

I don't like him or doing laundry.

 

[BellaPippin]

I see a face made of dirty laundry.

It's got its head cocked slightly challenging me to stay more on top of my laundry.

I don't like him or doing laundry.

It's like a monster made out of all the ketchup stains

 

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[broswoodwork]

It's like a monster made out of all the ketchup stains

Tell him I hate him.

 

[JAJT]

I'd call the left one "artistic" and the right one "art".

 

[minivanman]

I normally do not like art such as the left but I don't mind that one. Normally I'd choose the one on the right but I'm not a fan of that one so I'm almost stuck in the middle but I'm going to go with the left, which is very unusual for me. When my wife has a Picasso show I'm never interested at all.

 

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[GigMistress]

I voted "right," but that might change with context.

 

[Athena]

I love the left . Looks like something from my anatomy books. Blue and red. Veins and arteries

 

[foodiepersecond]

Depends on where and what it is being used for. I would hang the right in the living room or a bright room with minimal furniture. The left may work in the office, a corridor, or the cover of a jazz fusion album.

 

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[QFP]

Right pic is more appealing to the majority, but to be honest none of them.
The left pic looks like some one took silhouette of a face and daubed on it.
I cant see a whole lot of vision there.
Reason for question?

 

[chimichangatime]

While art is subjective, there are definite ways to critique art objectively. The piece on the right is superior in that aspect.

The composition is better, the texture is part of the picture, it has a color scheme, the positive and negative spaces are balanced and well-placed, etc.

The one on the left doesn't break the plane, so it doesn't give me positive/negative spaces that are broken apart. My eye has no place to rest, no quiet entry or exit points. The background doesn't work - the green is distracting and inconsistent, breaking the harmony, the cohesiveness. It's centered (which is boring). Okay, I'll stop. Not trying to beat up the artist, just showing why I think one is better by objective standards.

I do like abstract art. Abstract art isn't garbage on the canvas. Abstract art is the *abstraction* of an idea. Jackson Pollock was the first to achieve a painting with a ton of lines that weren't used to describe form. It's harder than you think.

The picture on the right is an abstraction of a woman's face, but still looks like a woman's face. It's a juxtaposition of what you'd think is ceramic-smooth skin with the impasto paint. She makes you think.

The one on the left does none of that. It's not an abstraction that I can tell. It's just super thick paint inside the outline of a human head. Maybe if it was in relation to something else to give context, I'd be happier with it. As is, I'm an abstract art fan and I'm not seeing the message, the story, the abstraction, or anything, really.