One comment mentioned that my painting is unfinished. It brings out one of the most important functions in all forms of art, in my opinion. That good art does not explain and create everything to the end. Instead, it allows the viewer, reader, listener, and experiencer to position themselves as another creator of art through the unfinishedness. So that the unfinishedness, which does not explain the meanings to the end, is like bait that the recipient of the art catches - and thus takes the work to their own fantasies, illusions, feelings, and experiences. Good art is therefore bilateral - between the artist and the recipient - creativity. In which case, a naturalistic explanation that does everything to the end kills the recipient's possibility of creativity. And the recipient feels - that looks real - so what - I see reality enough in reality - do I still have to look at it in art - and believe the trick that the exact reproduction of a photograph of reality in art is art. When i...
