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5th April 2017 07:52
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Re: Why Modern Art is Absolute Crap
There is an abundance of very skilled artists in the world today. So many out there when you look for it. This is a fun thread because we see the absolute crap that has been made, sold and even exhibited in contrast with so much craftsmanship and imagination, like the pencil drawing and the time lapse video of the super-realistic drawing of the M&M's, both shown above. Like acting, unless it is in an ensemble, or music unless it is in a large band, art, unless it is created as a group endeavor, or is used to provide insight and inspiration, is fraught with the smell of self-absorption. For some of us it defeats the purpose of being in society of like minded souls. It's not a criticism, just a fact of life in the art world.
I would suggest having as much fun with the b.s. as possible. Come up with an idea, sell the product and make some money off of the idiots who pay so much just for the novelty of it all. It was tough wasting any of the time we could have used developing our skills, with so much to learn and then having to go thru watching and listening to such stupidity during my years at a credentialed art school.
Another big disconnect with me while at that school was the presence of a big stainless steel, cubist sculpture outside in the courtyard. That shiny instrument made some amazing tones when we'd hit it with our hands, a stick, anything. The dumbest thing about it was that we weren't allowed to play it, to make songs with it, to make a concert with the instrument we saw everyday! How did that ever make any sense? If I had made that piece of art I would have engraved a note or a poem on it that would demand it be played whenever people, especially art critics and teachers were in it's presence, with the threat of it being removed if the courtyard remained silent in it's presence.
Now, when I go to the closest city where art is it's main product I see some of the same junk I saw decades ago and it seems I'm still sifting thru it to find the craft, the insight and the inspiration, instead of having to write it all off as just enjoying another walk up and down Canyon Road. The last time I was there I spent my time trying to find the owner of this big lost dog, convincing a gallery owner to let me print pictures of it to post on telephone poles so that the owner, who had to live somewhere nearby, could reclaim that cool gift of a dog. . (The gallery owners who helped were cool, especially the lady who didn't hesitate to take the time to figure out how to transfer my pictures of the dog to the right file and then make such good color copies to post.) As usual I found no art but the one we find in communicating and sharing, giving a f###. I mention this because the first gallery owner I asked was a real, he don't give a sh## jerk whose employees couldn't, on his command, take the few minutes or spare the ink to help out that cool, monster of a dog. He reminded me of all the callous art world pricks I met as an art student.
Damn, Hym, you got some gripes going on here! Get it out Bro....Get it out of your system. We're here for ya.
And....?
I saw such a disconnect from humanity, within the new halls of the elitist art world, with it's sanctimonious self-absorption and pandering to the lowest common denominator, .....yes....I was repulsed by almost all of it. I left it for my sanity, my humanity.
I gave most of my art away and was turned off by the whole scene, the focus of this thread. I knew that I wouldn't have the patience or the income from my art to do it long enough to do it full time, even as I had some deeply developed skills in recreating the human form with my hands, using clay, paint, wood and metal. I never sold anything or even tried to, knowing that I would rather move on and try other skills out, which I have done in building, health research, linguistics, etc.....a lot like many I know.
Loving the intricacies of the body as art means it takes a lot of time to create something worthy of the effort, unless we are talking about clay, which is, in smaller pieces, quicker to create in. i also would bet clay is a medium that other master masseuses are good at. Never lost the craft or the creativity, which most don't. I see with time passed that I've developed more skills, may be some day to let them live in some more work that is accessible, tactile, interactive.
Artists want to be inspired by the works of those in their trade and amongst all of the professions involving such subjectivity of the buyer, the distributors and the gallery owners it is a tough world to make a living in, which accounts for how much poorly made art there is out there and the reason for so much copying, which is distinct from taking cues and insights from the works of others. Then again, the real art is there to be found if you look for it in the living, art that can be touched, sat on, climbed, played on.
Geez, I can see that this struck a chord or two or three in me. Well, thanks Doctor BMJ and All for allowing me some time on the couch!
Last edited by Hym; 5th April 2017 at 23:05.
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11th April 2017 17:09
Link to Post #42