Glory (2022) Acrylic, ink, and paper on canvas.
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100% to this. I am far from any kind of expert, having cobbled together some competency through individual classes and reading on my own over the past 14 years. In formal classes you learn about how to use light and dark values to guide the viewer's eyes around the work, and keep them engaged with careful composition. Using specific textures, line weights and and colors can reinforce a mood, style or subject matter.
I dabble in many media so I'm still a novice in most art styles so I don't succeed in thinking these things through with each piece, so some are more "effective" than others. But at the end of the day I paint because I enjoy it and I create things that I like to look at.
There will always be people who prefer hyper realistic art because their view is that that style is the highest skill and its what represents art to them. That is the great thing about art-everyone can find something they like.
I wish I could sit a spell with this painting irl, I love it and also love your perspective and context. Good luck!
I can't deny that there was a point where I rejected abstract and expressionist stuff. Hell, I still don't always like it all, and dada falls flat a lot.
But when you take a few classes and try to do it, it gives a different perspective than a more casual art exposure will. Doing so opened me up to the kind of work like Mondrian and Basquiat did, where the realistic or even directly representative isn't the goal.
Like you said, there's room for damn near every form of art, and tastes always vary :)