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Modern art has to be some sort of money laundering scheme.
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Quoted from swampfire:Is this funny or just sick?
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Look familiar?
66543ACD-9D1B-41DB-A72C-BF1495370588 (resized).jpegQuoted from Mr_Tantrum:For the most part, I view art like I view classical authors and composers (e.g. Shakespeare & Mozart). Were they gifted geniuses, sure. Did their works have even a fraction of the meaning and brilliance we assign to them today - barely. These were men with jobs who were under great pressure, were accountable to powerful people, and had demanding deadlines. They didn't sit around and ponder the existential deep meaning of life & then tried to convey it through their art. They had ideas, they borrowed from others at times, they put their works down on paper in time to meet a deadline, and they took the check to the bank. Artists are no different. Also, the majority of them probably get screwed by the gallery (similar to record labels getting the lion's share of a performer's income).
I really love that this discussion and this man's art made you spend time in your day contemplating what an artist was trying to convey with their work hundreds of years ago. I guess you're hoity-toity now as it actually affected your life . today. I'd agree that most descriptions in art museums are crap, but I guess art teachers and critics need jobs too. Speaking of, you seem very dismissive of art but look at all the jobs this guy is creating years after his death, auction houses, appraisers, truck drivers, movers, museum staff, hell even the cleaners and food sellers at the art museum.
Serious job creator! It's almost like art is good for the economy!
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Quoted from ZooDude:I really love that this discussion and this man's art made you spend time in your day contemplating what an artist was trying to convey with their work hundreds of years ago. I guess you're hoity-toity now as it actually affected your life . today. I'd agree that most descriptions in art museums are crap, but I guess art teachers and critics need jobs too. Speaking of, you seem very dismissive of art but look at all the jobs this guy is creating years after his death, auction houses, appraisers, truck drivers, movers, museum staff, hell even the cleaners and food sellers at the art museum.
Serious job creator! It's almost like art is good for the economy!
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I've been a fly on the wall when I've had some of my art critiqued. I found it fasinating to hear people read all sorts of meanings into it that I hadn't thought about or considered.
So, based on that first hand experience, I would probably say that a lot of it is just nonsense, some of it projection from the viewer, but there can maybe sometimes be a small nugget composed of a genuinely insightful comment.
Well, I’m jealous of anyone with even a scrap of artistic ability. I never moved past stick figures.
Quoted from swampfire:Well, I’m jealous of anyone with even a scrap of artistic ability.
Don't be. It's not what it's all cracked up to be.
I started on top. The Minneapolis Institute of Art was my church. I loved to paint.
And grew to hate it. One incident killed it for me. I haven't touched a paint brush in near 32 years.
Still brings up bad memories to this day.
Enjoy your stick figures.
LTG : )
Quoted from swampfire:Well, I’m jealous of anyone with even a scrap of artistic ability. I never moved past stick figures.
XKCD is just stick figures, but it's always been popular.
Quoted from LTG:I started on top. The Minneapolis Institute of Art was my church. I loved to paint.
LTG : )
Can we see a sample?
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