Favorite/least fav kind of art Options

[*salcha4u*]

I'd have to say watercolors as least favorite because they take so long and it's tedious. Oil pastels are my favorite because the colors are pretty and it always turns out nice at the end.

[NoSex]

I guess I'll take the question, and this thread, on a broader scale.

My favorite form of art is film. Cinema is one of the youngest, most complex, most versatile, most influential, and fastest evolving art forms ever employed on a mass scale. Less than two-hundred years old, film has seen a shrinking of evolution in comparison to other mediums of expression. The level of technology used and required to actually produce a movie is so much higher than most forms of art that there have been many hardships as well as controversies within the medium. Because of the technical requirments and the equipment involved in filming, early cinema was a venture only suited for the rich and crazy. As profits began to emerge and public awareness and demand for the entertainment grew, as did the technology surrounding the art form. With the expensive reality of filmmaking, the art was often trivialized for the commerical asperations, as well as financial limitations.

It costs money to make a movie. Unless you do not want to make another film, you are going to have to expect to make some kind of financial gain somewhere. Most of the time, this gain and profit comes from the commerical enterprise of the intellectual property itself. This could have been a very sad state of affairs for the art form. However, as the technology grew, and the technical requirements shrunk, more and more people were able to produce their own films, with little or no help from a studio or investor. We saw the explosion of independent filmmaking. Slowly, the artistic expression could envelope more time, effort, creativity, and freedom for less money and with fewer promises towards commerical success.

As an art form, cinema is endlessly complex, and perfectly versatile. It has the ability, more so than any current medium, to replicate the human experience. With this replication comes the endless amounts of commentary onto it. Beyond even replication comes the further possibility to show the audience, and allow the audience to experience something far beyond their own window of opportunity. The filmmaker had been given the power to take audiences to places, meet people, and experience things they may never see, or even which never existed - but on the screen. The endless possibilities and sophistication of communication make film the most living, vivid, vibrant, important, and fantastic art form of our time.

Least favorite? Hmmm.
Found objects/Contemporary Sculptures.

[Although, least favorite is so, eh. I can find beauty and poignant meaning within nearly any medium of artistic expression.]