2012-08-23, 12:31 PM
Well, I tend to look for three things in any artwork piece: Effort, Technique and Inspiration, being inspiration the secondary criteria.
I can't really stand some pieces from modern artists, because they are some sort of anachronism; back in the time where those were born, they had a reason to be such strange stuff, it was all about developing art to break the canons, to make "crappy and nonsense art" to convince people about the war times, and talk about human stupidity; but nowadays, it's just plain stupid to do these.
Some years ago, a German artist came over to my town, she "built a sculpture" for an event. (It was just some pieces of sawdust, and pieces of mirror thrown into a pile on the floor). A maid of the local gallery actually did "clean" it up, the woman was completely out of her mind and furious, she left saying that she was going to bring everyone to the court; but seriously, I can't really give so much value to such a work.
For me, art doesn't NEED to be explained, it can be a plus, but it can't just be a need; I can't really understand who the hell would pay a million dollars for that blank canvas with a black outline that was said to be "a mirror"; If it's already zero technique, zero effort, and just inspiration that IS NOT EVEN CLEAR and REQUIRES an explanation, how the hell is that so valuable?
I find it actually funny that people value canvas made with a machine (No idea of it's English name, but we call it the "Paint Mixer", it's just a machine with holes, you drop the paint in there and it mixes with others and goes through the holes into the canvas). A new painting is done within a minute, sold for a thousand dollars and the artist gets credit FOR pineappleING NOTHING; yet people are prejudiced with something so simple as Digital art.
I've seen MANY around here babbling pomegranate about how easy and how poor digital art is, because they say that if you require a program, it's just something a computer can do by itself; when it's pineappleing not; doing digital art sometimes is even more complicated than doing it on paper, I take more time doing it with this tablet than I do with paper, and it takes at least a year to get used to a tablet, as it just looks like nothing you do on "physical" art.
I'm both open to some forms of art as I'm stubborn to those stupid anachronisms; and Fashion is one of them; being really sincere, I don't really like a part of fashion, maybe because of it's universe (that possibly is the reason some people don't value it, because I've heard many associating it to a universe that asks for "skeletons using frivolous clothes", they seem to heavily dislike the culture around it, and how it sometimes dictates things, opposing to the freedom of art; that's what I heard), but fashion exists outside that situation.
I actually admire fashion, as it fulfills the mentioned criteria more than many forms of modern art; it requires a lot of technique, a lot of effort on the small details, and can express inspiration; I tend to make people look at other manifestations of such art, like how movies and even games require specialists to design the character clothes with an extremely delicate and beautiful amount of details, all clothes have a reason to be that way, some even represent the character's personality, fantasy can be associated with it, and personally, I think that representing personality onto clothes is just fantastic; I prefer fantasy over the default fashion world, but I try to understand it too.
Fashion is an extremely underrated form of modern art, as digital art is to some people; I just can't really stand how those require so much effort and are so underrated, yet some two minute paintings done without even knowing how to hold a pencil or a brush are so valuable.
I can't really stand some pieces from modern artists, because they are some sort of anachronism; back in the time where those were born, they had a reason to be such strange stuff, it was all about developing art to break the canons, to make "crappy and nonsense art" to convince people about the war times, and talk about human stupidity; but nowadays, it's just plain stupid to do these.
Some years ago, a German artist came over to my town, she "built a sculpture" for an event. (It was just some pieces of sawdust, and pieces of mirror thrown into a pile on the floor). A maid of the local gallery actually did "clean" it up, the woman was completely out of her mind and furious, she left saying that she was going to bring everyone to the court; but seriously, I can't really give so much value to such a work.
For me, art doesn't NEED to be explained, it can be a plus, but it can't just be a need; I can't really understand who the hell would pay a million dollars for that blank canvas with a black outline that was said to be "a mirror"; If it's already zero technique, zero effort, and just inspiration that IS NOT EVEN CLEAR and REQUIRES an explanation, how the hell is that so valuable?
I find it actually funny that people value canvas made with a machine (No idea of it's English name, but we call it the "Paint Mixer", it's just a machine with holes, you drop the paint in there and it mixes with others and goes through the holes into the canvas). A new painting is done within a minute, sold for a thousand dollars and the artist gets credit FOR pineappleING NOTHING; yet people are prejudiced with something so simple as Digital art.
I've seen MANY around here babbling pomegranate about how easy and how poor digital art is, because they say that if you require a program, it's just something a computer can do by itself; when it's pineappleing not; doing digital art sometimes is even more complicated than doing it on paper, I take more time doing it with this tablet than I do with paper, and it takes at least a year to get used to a tablet, as it just looks like nothing you do on "physical" art.
I'm both open to some forms of art as I'm stubborn to those stupid anachronisms; and Fashion is one of them; being really sincere, I don't really like a part of fashion, maybe because of it's universe (that possibly is the reason some people don't value it, because I've heard many associating it to a universe that asks for "skeletons using frivolous clothes", they seem to heavily dislike the culture around it, and how it sometimes dictates things, opposing to the freedom of art; that's what I heard), but fashion exists outside that situation.
I actually admire fashion, as it fulfills the mentioned criteria more than many forms of modern art; it requires a lot of technique, a lot of effort on the small details, and can express inspiration; I tend to make people look at other manifestations of such art, like how movies and even games require specialists to design the character clothes with an extremely delicate and beautiful amount of details, all clothes have a reason to be that way, some even represent the character's personality, fantasy can be associated with it, and personally, I think that representing personality onto clothes is just fantastic; I prefer fantasy over the default fashion world, but I try to understand it too.
Fashion is an extremely underrated form of modern art, as digital art is to some people; I just can't really stand how those require so much effort and are so underrated, yet some two minute paintings done without even knowing how to hold a pencil or a brush are so valuable.