pretentious art
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You know studied fine art myself, been visiting exhibitions regularly and checking the what the graduates of the so called best colleges where doing... and I found 2 or 3 things that make a lot of people feeling like asking for their money back.
- The art market used to be managed by collectionists and galleries, and right now a lot of investors and wealthy people in general buy art to speculate with the price. The capitalism damaged the market heavily and as a result you see 'products' sold as art (Hirst's polkadots anyone?)
- Transgression was always valued, as such the barriers of traditional art were broken, and suddenly there was this thing as performances or installations, breaking the barriers of sculpture, visual and performing arts. Add to that the digital media and you have an exiting scenario. The only problem with that, is that meny people decided to be transgressive without mastering the technologies or techniques behind the art. That produced good results (you can think of punk music as a valid analogy) and bad ones, people trying to be rebellious without being talented.
- Lastly, the political correctness were 'everybody can do anything' and you discriminate if you do not agree with that made the whole scene a lot worse. Many years ago a person without talent was simply told "you are a failure, why not better try doing something else" - at the moment you cannot say that, and while a lot people is happier, the by-product is a ton of shit art made by people who should never have even tried it. Because -unfortunately- to make good art you need to have some talent, of some sort.
When you think about it, there are a lot of overrated music bands and nobody bothers (x factor crap anyone) and even overrated people, famous pretty much for doing nothing (WAGs?). So I wonder how come if art is a true mirror of society how that wouldn't surface.
My wording posting of the day.
- a lot of sentiments I agree with here.Amicus
- I agree 100 percent...loool
- not sure what I wanted to say with wording... probably Lion decided that wordy wasn't a nice word...maikel
- ...apart from the assertion that punk music is 'good'.mikotondria3