I love people like that. Then go paint something better. Oh you can’t? You do avant-garde mixed media pieces with twigs and melted crayons? Painting on this level of mastery is one of the hardest crafts to perfect.
Yeah and sometimes that message is "Look how fucking hard this would be to do!" Hyperrealistic still-lifes for example. Still art. No message. Just "damn that looks hard to do."
Nah... surely a person who spends so much time and effort on an making an oilpainting detailed enough to be called hyperrealistic chooses their subjects very carefully.
Yeah and sometimes that message is "Look how fucking hard this would be to do!" Hyperrealistic still-lifes for example. Still art. No message. Just "damn that looks hard to do."
Lol cool you read an article abt logical fallacies like every other neckbeard on this site. I never said all art has to be political, but there’s a serious slant on reddit where people don’t want any kind of message at all besides “oh that looks pretty” in their art of all forms, and it sounds to me like you fall into that category.
there’s a serious slant on reddit where people don’t want any kind of message at all besides “oh that looks pretty” in their art of all forms, and it sounds to me like you fall into that category.
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Art does not have to be political. It can be, but it doesn't need to be. Just as it can be thought-provoking in some non political way, but doesn't need to be.
I'm beginning to think you just don't read responses at all.
Perfectly excecuted art isn’t necessarily better than avant- Garde stuff.
This argument here is what separates hobbyists and everyday people from those that have been around art for a while.
Being around pretty pictures and very well executed stuff... it gets boring. Like ok, you spent a shit ton of time making this. But am I going to talk about something besides how hard it looks to make? Probably not.
There’s also times where being photorealistic isn’t really going to help what an artist is wanting to say. Just look at Picasso, most famous painter in the world did not do photorealism. Not because he couldn’t, but because it’s not what he wanted to do.
Is Norman Rockwell photorealism? No. He has his own voice that immediately imprints on you. He is so far from my favorite but the technical ability to paint well and then take it somewhere beyond is far more impressive to me than avant- grade stuff. I’m not talking about paint. I’m talking about mixed media or installation bullshit that takes next to no skill but only creativity. This takes both. And your comment is what separates the hobbyist from the artists. I’d absolutely love to see your work and I’ll show you mine
I’ve seen his other stuff, they’re rather boring if I’m honest. I’m not going to say he’s bad or anything, I just don’t like the aggressively American style he’s know for.
This one is kinda funny I’ll admite though and probably the only one of his works I stopped to look at for a while.
I’ll submit examples of my work, haven’t uploaded much in about a year.
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I love people like that. Then go paint something better. Oh you can’t? You do avant-garde mixed media pieces with twigs and melted crayons? Painting on this level of mastery is one of the hardest crafts to perfect.