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Re: Shitty Art. (sometimes literally)
by pAris on Feb 26, 2002 - 09:28 AM
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Well, first of all I have to agree. As a holder of a BFA (or a Big Fuckin Deal as I call it...) in painting, it was/is frustrating to constantly see people produce a 10 second piece of masturbatory crap and move to the head of the class/art world. On the other hand, even though these people sometimes please their critics, and sometimes are deemed worthless by many, sometimes they do have something to say, just not to you or me. Who are we to judge what is acceptable art? That is the problem - not that there is definitely some truly bad art being produced every second, but that everyone really does like different things and finds beauty in many different things.
Imagine for instance, that the people who like water color pictures of pretty flowers and cute little angel cats decided that gothic art (okay, angel cats may be cross-genre...) is unacceptable because of its aesthetic or message. Imagine this entire site being gone or your favorite movie because it did not have enough "beauty" in it, or that it "does not say anything." Who decides what is worthy? The audience does (in theory). Of course, if the audience is spoon-fed a bunch of crap and told they are stupid if they don't get it (even when there is naught to get), well... you get where we are today. But if people actually attempted to educate themselves and their peers (and a lot of us do), things would improve.
True, it does not always work that way, and a lot of really BAD art slips through the cracks, but the alternative is worse. Imagine a world where your musical choices were Brittney and N'suck because goth and punk and industrial and funk and emo and other forms are ugly or simple or "could be played by a stoned monkey" or whatever and were not approved by the masses or the people in control.
I guess what I'm saying is that while agree that it sucks how much bad art is enthusiastically approved by the fuckheads that call themselves the Art World, it would suck more to only allow certain types of art or expression.
The only solution I see as valuable is to create as much good art as you can and never stop trying to learn more about you and your medium, and to try to be open to new things and influences.
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