I see many would be artists get concepts and emotions confused. Art deals with emotions, feelings and things that can not be explained. A concept is the opposite.
For example listening to a bit of classical music, or any music that moves you, the experience is very engrossing. The experience might lift your spirits, so to speak. Even in the field of typography, an emotion can be expressed by the font that the author picks.
But on the other hand, if you look at a happy face, the experience gives you a concept of a happy something…not sure what. This experience is quite different than the music.
Fine Art, in my opinion, deals with the things you cant quite put your finger on, whereas concepts, like happy faces, or flags or emoji symbols give you some sort of two dimensional experience. It is like the difference between talking about grandmas chocolate cake and actually eating it, big difference.
You can see this problem crop up in art that has words included in it. These are concepts attempting to dress up as emotions. Again, in my opinion this is not Fine Art which is an undefinable emotional experience..
The path to fine art is only walked by improving ones artistic skills.
This duality was first introduced to me by this book. I recommend it for all artists.
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