Other times I go other ways. This picture was a crappy photo I took and later heavily manipulated it into something I liked. I printed and framed it for myself but my neighbor ended up buying it for his hunting/getaway cabin up north.
Posted on 09/02/2014 6:32:10 AM PDT by servo1969
After the dawn of photography, “fine” artists stepped back from attempting to be realist in their portrayal of subject matter.
Yet photographers who wanted to be accepted as “artists” had to use tricks (to haze the photo) to present “pictorialist” works.
The American illustrator movement (who largely found work in publishing whether it be book, magazine, or advertising illustration) was rejected by the art world as being crass/consumerist/and about money. As if Andy Warhol or Salvador Dali weren’t interested in how much money their works were bringing in.
Initially the dada movement, readymade objects, and all that were conceived as “anti-art” but it has since become the dominant ART form recognized by galleries and institutions.
Pablo Picasso, upon visiting and viewing the drawings at the Caves of Lascaux, commented, “We have learned nothing”.
And fashion - especially for the young.
I love it when folks talk about art!
According to a friend who is a professor at a very prestigious art school, modern art is so bad because:
1. The really good students are picked up by advertising companies and video game companies. Most of the highest quality art of the last 60 years has been to sell something.
2. While art has always had a political element, politics now trumps quality art. Previously, quality of art came first.
3. Related to No.2, art has always had gays, but now gay trumps art.
“When I am alone with myself, I have not the courage to think of myself as an artist in the great and ancient sense of the term.
Giotto, Titan, Rembrandt and Goya were great painters. I am only a public entertainer who has understood his times and has exhausted, as best he could, the imbecility, the vanity, the cupidity of his contemporaries.
Mine is a bitter confession, more painful than it may appear, but it has the merit of being sincere.”—Pablo Picasso
Excellent, concise, spot-on video! My thoughts exactly. I have long said that YES, there IS such a thing as bad art, and no one need be intimidated by the art snob community into believing they don’t know enough about art to make a judgment call.
The proliferation of bad art in America coincides with the leftist “progressive” revolution that began around the turn of the last century. The gist and foundation of all of it is REBELLION.
Art is used for investment and tax purposes. All that matters is that it is rare, verifiable, and created by someone famous (at least in the art community). The actual art can be pure crap. It doesn’t matter.
A while back I read an article about how to make money off art and photography.
Basically it said to hang around gay people and photograph them doing gay things and then show it off to liberals so they will get your name out there.
My attitude is to do what I like and if others like it too, they’ll pay for it.
This crap has been going on for years. I don’t know that it is a Communist plot but my thought has always been:
If the art is more dependent on imagination and shock value than skill to create. It isn’t art. It is trash.
That’s so cute! Sort of like a Battenburg cake.
I do not dispute that those were among their goals, but I suspect that your items are not from an actual list compiled by the leftists, as I doubt they would describe their “superior” cultural items with all of those negative adjectives. Your list reads like something from one of those multi-forwarded emails.
My artist son basically did that in New York city, it did work to a degree.
Thanks for posting this.
Excellent points.
On a recent vacation, I had the misfortune of visiting Goggleworks in Reading, PA. I was astounded by the quantity of garbage masquerading as art.
The stuff that shows up on a quick peek at the website is not bad, but most of what I saw on display and for sale was disgusting, while some of it was just laughable.
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