Art in any form is a hoax. Art is not real, and the whole notion of "artist" is man-made pomposity. Art can't be defined objectively, so it's not to be taken seriously. Things happen in nature all the time that are infinitely more beautful and/or interesting than anything some jackass human can come up with. Music is just music, a scuplture is just a sculpture, a movie is just a movie. They don't need to be romanticized into something they aren't.
How many other forms of art focus PRIMARILY on being widely accepted?
Sure. That's a good point. I guess I just get tired of the "CTRL+ALT+DEL" mentality that so many musicians have these days. It's all about editing, fixing, and quantizing. It's not about music anymore. I just don't understand why it's like that now. Why is it such a huge deal that so and so "artist" "wrote or co-wrote 8/10 songs on the cd." WOW!!! Really? Used to be bands wrote their shit, played it, and toured off of it.I think the definiteion of art is subjective anyway. I can go to a gallery and see a blank canvas that some douche labelled modern art and sold for a fortune. The band Anal C*nt call themselves art, but in reality it's just a fucking random noise. It's at that point that this 'art' actually just becomes opportunism. ....She spends the day listening to pretentious art critic fags putting meaning that isn't there into her work and then telling her categorically what her work means, and she's like "no, it's just a fucking painting of some flowers..... "
Bottom line: It's fucking gay.
So true. I know there are people like that. But I don't think that in MOST other mediums the majority of people are like that. I could be wrong though.Exactly what legionserial said. I think it started with Jackson Pollock. He flung paint at a canvas and made up some bullshit about the collective unconscious guiding his work. As Jung's work in psychology was popular at the time, people ate it up.
Exactly what legionserial said. I think it started with Jackson Pollock. He flung paint at a canvas and made up some bullshit about the collective unconscious guiding his work. As Jung's work in psychology was popular at the time, people ate it up.
It always amuses me when people rag on "Jack the Dripper." I suspect it is because most folks have only seen his work reproduced in "coffee-table" books and thus reduced in size and scope. Truth is, there was a time when I didn't "get" Pollock's work, either. Then, I visited Washington DC and had time to visit some of the museums on the Mall. I was wandering around the Museum of Art, and when I rounded a curve and saw one of his pieces there- the size and sheer POWER of the thing almost literally KNOCKED ME OFF MY FEET. I really stumbled and took a couple of steps back, the damn thing made such a powerful visual statement. I never got that- not even a suggestion of it- when I had seen his stuff in books. Now, I can't say I "like" Pollock's work, like I "like" Winslow Homer's, and I don't really understand it, like I feel I do of Van Gogh, but I can't decry it anymore, either. He may well have been making it up if he said he was expressing the collective unconscious, or something like that, but if I was so overpowered by just SEEING one of his works, I can believe he was at a loss of words as to why he CREATED them.
Now, I am not saying diggy_dude or anyone else here has not seen Pollock's work in person- but if you have not, you really don't know what you are talking about. I have seen lots of visual art, before and since, but no one exposure has had as much an impact. Years after that initial impression, I am still in awe of the man.
But, if you want to "prove" you are as talented as he is, and have some fun doing so, go to one of my favorite websites-https://wbx-files.s3.amazonaws.com/jacksonpollock_by_miltos_manetas.swf
music's music.10' legs and small body on top, with a crotch you can drive a Mack truck through!
Who did they use for the model...?...I want to meet her.
Now THERE'S a band I want to be in!
Can you imagine what those guys feel like playing that stuff...???
Eh...I guess it's a gig...no different than playing "Freebird" for the millionth time to a bunch of drunks!
Yes, it really is.Freebird isn't any worse than any other song.
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Yes, it really is.