People Used to be Ashamed of Bad Art

[SummerStriker]

A long time ago, there were masters in the arts, and people looked up to them. They believed with talent and effort, they too could become great.

But even the early masters got tired of all that realism and applied their skills to new forms of art, which look as if they take less skill, but really, they require a mastery of the basics and a well developed artistic sense.

People used to try to be skilled, even back when there wasn't much to compare it too.

But for some reason, our culture has moved away from this, instead using artwork like expletives, to convey the simplest emotions in the least skilled, often illiterate terms.

What's happening to us?

 

[Cubo de Sangre]

Picture's worth a thousand words. Not seeing the problem here.

 

[RerouteToRemain]

 

[snakedafunky]

Well, Memes are just jokes.
What I do think is a real contribution to the arts is this green text.
Being able to write text like that where you can just say >be me 15 beta in high school.
And everyone knows what you mean which in traditional Truthout would take a considerable amount of sentences to explain.
So green text allows you to tell quite long stories in short form but the reader is still interested.
That google Ultron story is hilarious.

Of course, a lot of it is just 4chan shitposting.

 

[21 Savage]

this rly made me think

 

[Pickle Rick]

This thread made me think.... Of the dump.

 

[weed]

here are some Breaking Bad inspired 'shops I made.

 

[Headkicktoleg]

People have always made stupid little memes. It just used to be in bathroom walls before, but now we have forums, paint and broadband internet.
They have even found graffitti on ancient roman toilets.

There are also people making legitimate art as well.

 

[irish_thug]

Well, Memes are just jokes.

So is a lot of what passes for "art" these days.

 

[jimbob27]

My ancestors used to make giant hillside carvings of dudes with comedy dicks and nipples.

These days, we make cartoons for children which I'm sure any of the old masters would be blown away by.

 

[Shoemaker]

Modern art =/= memes. There's plenty of people who still make very good art.

I'm not big into art but I like this persons stuff: http://www.jessicahess.com/oil-paintings/ First time I saw them at an exhibit, I thought they were photographs of graffiti. But it's so much better than that.




edit: and as long as people have been etching symbols in the sand, there's been one mouth breather not far behind erasing everything and drawing dicks instead. Drawing dicks isn't a new thing.

 

[elfeliz]

there is still a lot of great art out there you just have to know where to find it

 

[Sketch]

Came in here expecting to see modern art, saw memes instead. Dump.

Could have been a decent thread, I agree about how art back in the day was actually beautiful and skillful

there is still a lot of great art out there you just have to know where to find it

This idiot's post is what I'm talking about.
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[CauseImbetta]

A long time ago, there were masters in the arts, and people looked up to them. They believed with talent and effort, they too could become great.

But even the early masters got tired of all that realism and applied their skills to new forms of art, which look as if they take less skill, but really, they require a mastery of the basics and a well developed artistic sense.

People used to try to be skilled, even back when there wasn't much to compare it too.

But for some reason, our culture has moved away from this, instead using artwork like expletives, to convey the simplest emotions in the least skilled, often illiterate terms.

What's happening to us?

Bad art always existed but didn't last the test of time. In the future good art of today will remain, the bad will disappear.

 

[Gregolian]

I don't get modern art...

Like, an example from a TV show there's the piece that Kingpin is looking at in the Netflix Daredevil show... it's literally a white background with just slightly off white splotches across it (at least that's how I see it)....

I don't get it.

 

[Liquid Smoke]

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I am the Danger.
-Kenny Florian

 

[oldshadow]

Hiperrealismo