[INFJ] INFJs and Art - What forms of art are you interested in?

[bolognamacaroni]

I love anything about nature - the ocean, the mountains, the sky, a tree...

I love architecture. And photography. I love music, movies, literature, and poetry.

I appreciate street art. I enjoy sculpture. I love surreal and abstract paintings, and art about religion. I'm a big fan of Renaissance and French Rococo styles.

I'm drawn to art that communicates a message - typically of political or classist oppression, religious expression, racial oppression, love, heartbreak, or sadness.

 

[Enkidu]

I find myself particularly drawn to impressionism, symbolism, and post-impressionism (partly because I am also near-sighted :tongue. My favorite artists are Mikhail Vrubel, Odilon Redon, and M.C. Escher and I enjoy sketching, oil painting, photography and poetry to a lesser degree.

 

[ashishkk]

I enjoy the meaningfulness and the irony within the art.

 

[ElleG]

I'm a graphic designer by trade. I also paint, write poetry/prose and enjoy printmaking. I was a good singer as a child and my music teacher wanted me to get formal training, but that didn't happen and I don't consider myself a good singer now. I LOVE music, and regret not sticking with piano lessons, but I don't consider myself musical.

 

[Gus]

what specific forms of art do you all enjoy?

Movies! ....thats art right?

 

[heartcore]

Art Nouveau, ink painting, watercolor, architecture, manga (Seinen), music, martial arts, zen art.

 

[hauteur]

Does porn count? I'm uh... asking for a friend.

Seriously, though. I've been interested in doing art for my whole life, pretty much. When I was just a wee lad, I wanted to be a ventriloquist, actually. Never pursued it. Then I wanted to be a Jedi. That didn't work out either... Then I wanted to be a rock star - I did pursue that, but I moved on. I am still a musician, even if I am out of practice, and I'm an author (actually have a self-published book). I've drawn a lot at different points in my life, although I'm out of practice with that as well.

Music and reading have been my passions. I love movies. Haven't had a ton of room for TV, except that my wife loves it. Before I was married, I never turned it on except to watch a movie. As far as the visual arts, I love photography and drawing - I favor the surreal in what I look at and the realistic for what I draw. Or used to draw. Ahem.

 

[flower]

I like all kinds of art, so many different beautiful ways to express yourself. Any art form is interesting! Music, poetry and digital art are definitely my favorite forms of art.

 

[Rowan Tree]

I know INFJs are known for being creative and artistic, but I'm curious, what specific forms of art do you all enjoy?

I would echo a lot of other posters in stressing meaning in art:

Art with subtle meaning.

I gravitate toward meaningful work, no matter the medium.

it has to be meaningful art, but you can find meaning in many everyday things.

I enjoy the meaningfulness and the irony within the art.

If I had to guess, that's the auxiliary Fe mediating the inferior Se? A narrative is important to me (Ti-Ni?), but especially in visual and poetic art, that suggestion of narrative can be highly elliptical, inviting unconscious engagement and associative thinking. Literature is my preferred medium and my favourite genre is utopia (future orientated, Ni-Fe). I also love southern gothic because of its melancholic stress on values and hidden meanings.

With art genres more broadly, pre-Raphaelites, romanticism and its many offshoots, abstract expressionism (particularly Rothko), metaphysical art, minimalism, surrealism (especially the Egyptian Art and Liberty movement) and so on.

 

[BoringNotBornIng]

Hey, guys, does any of you studied art in college? I think that some of you said that they were good at arts in college or something like that, you have to be good at things like this forever, I came on infsj recently but I fell like I am here for an eternity. If any of you think that you are a master in the art, I came here to share my skills in art https://floatingstyles.com I am as good as you ore even better. I like a lot of ocean view, the way sunsets up an down, babies smile on a green background. What about you?

 

[Ren]

Literature, music, and film for me.

I enjoy the other arts as well but these are essential to my life.

 

[Milktoast Bandit]

I enjoy many arts. And most of Alex Grey's painting, which is also art...

 

[Milktoast Bandit]

N, N-DMT

Whatever works for him.

 

[BritNi]

Dance.
That's one of my faves.

But I like them all:
Art-art, music, literature, photography, films, theater, etc..

Visual, performing, applied

All the arts, I appreciate.

 

[Milktoast Bandit]

Art-art

 

[BritNi]

I was gonna put a " lol" but figured you guys would get a kick out of it regardless.

 

[Milktoast Bandit]

I was gonna put a " lol" but figured you guys would get a kick out of it, regardless.

You know us well!

 

[Ren]

Abstract Expressionism - Wassily Kandinsky

In 2012 I almost got a Kandinsky tattoo. I don't know what was up with me at the time.

• Experimental Art Cinema, like the works of Stan Brakhage, Jon Jost, and the video work by sculptor Matthew Barney

• Some independent auteur cinema: like the improvisational films of John Cassavetes(aka. Shadows 1957), Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One 1968 (dir. William Greaves), French auteurs who were making films to push the boundaries of the medium itself(aka. Jean Luc Godard, Francois Truffout, Alain Renoir, etc.)

• The commercial works of auteur directors like Stanley Kubrick, Andrei Tarkovsky, Bela Tarr, Akira Kurosawa, Godfrey Reggio, and Terrence Malick among others are so thoughtfully, skillfully, and innovatively crafted that they rise to the level of fine art.

Great picks! Tarkovsky, Kurosawa and Malick are among my favorite directors. I still need to get into Bela Tarr. Love Cassavetes also.

Have you heard of the French director Robert Bresson? I really recommend checking him out. And I would add Bergman as well

 

[Ren]

Diary of a Country priest is one of the greatest films ever made (by Bresson).

It is superb. My personal favorite is Au Hasard Balthazar — which may in fact be my favorite film, period.

 

[Ren]

Also note on Bela Tarr, he aint for everyone. If you liked Andrei Rublev( a 3 hour Russian epic in black in white), you'll like Tarr's work. I always found Tarkovsky's work mystical and uplifting compared to Tarr's. Tarkovsky has more overt Christian overtones and metaphor than Tarr. Tarr is the gritty existentialist version of Tarkovsky. They're style is similar, but Tarr smacks you cold with nihilism in the raw. Watch Satantango, a 7.5 hour black and white Hungarian epic. Its also a masterpiece, but an acquired taste.

I love the idea of Tarr being a gritty existentialist To be completely frank, it's probably the enormous length of his movies that has kept me away from them so far. But I will take note of Satantango, thank you for the suggestion.

A lot of my favorite films are acquired tastes, I think, and they were also for myself. I didn't particularly like The Tree of Life on first viewing; neither did I quite understand why Solaris had the reputation it did. It's only over time, as I found it impossible to forget about those experiences and kept thinking about them, that I realized the impact they had made on me.