I'm an oil painter, but not sure whether I'm an INFP or an ISFP. At the moment I'm leaning more towards ISFP. I personally like my paintings to stand out through color, tonality, and contrast with some surrealistic and symbolic aspects added into it. They always have a person involved too where they are showing some kind of raw emotion. So I guess I like a mix of realism with abstract concepts.
Although when I was a child, I always loved drawing people or made up landscapes in my mind. I started out drawing things strictly from my imagination, and then ventured on to copying things in order to develop my technique. Drawing what I saw always came naturally to me, so this is why I lean more towards being Se dominant. I am also very detailed oriented when it comes to my work and always have been since I was young.
My appreciation for other people's artwork were always more concrete, and I never understood the love some people have for heavily abstract work. I always assumed abstract art was created by people who didn't have skill to draw, and were taking an "easier" route to make art. However, my perspective on abstract art has since changed, as I have been awestruck by such mesmerizing pieces that are actually full of details and such complexity that I could never imagine in a million years creating myself.
As for meaning, I try to show some kind of personal inspiration for a piece I start with. Like I have the idea set in my mind of what I want to do and what its intent is, but it always comes out differently in the end. I always keep adding things as I go, and sometimes the original "meaning" of what I set out to do kind of diminishes as it ends up being surrounded by a bunch of randomness everywhere. I do try to connect everything together, but if someone were to ask me what the meaning of a particular painting is, I often have trouble explaining as it may not necessarily make as much sense to them as it would to me. I actually hate when people ask me up front, because to me each piece is pretty personal. I would rather people look at my artwork and come up with their own meaning, because then they'd be able to interpret what it means personally to them, whereas if they were to find out the original intention of a piece, the relation they had originally would be lost. It's kind of like listening to a song and coming up with your own idea of what it means, and then later finding out that it's completely different then what you originally interpreted it to be and then you end up thinking and relating to the song in a different way thereafter, if that makes sense.
I would love to hear others perspectives on art and whether there is a correlation between different art preferences in intuitives and sensors. Also, sorry for the incessant rambling, haha.