Art is alive and well
Art is alive and well
Brandon Hughes
Josiah Powell
>this is not art, unlike my chinese drawings
Adrian Torres
>Art is alive and well
Unironically yes. One of the main purposes of art has always been to challenge tradition and cause people to be butthurt in the process.
Kayden Nguyen
I want this as a sculpture
John Miller
Yeah, I remember who immensely butthurt I was after seeing pic related for the first time.
Samuel Campbell
Pic related deeply challenged my tradition.
Grayson Bennett
>There has only been one piece of art, ever, and that piece of art is supposed to cause the same effects on society now that it did 500 years ago
Ian Hernandez
For millennia, art has been about eternal aesthetics. To represent the true and the beautiful. Then some assholes came along and turned it into the opposite: culturally destructive, gross, disgusting, provocative.
Landon Barnes
And speaking of Art....
Ryder Brooks
Read a history book
Adrian Gonzalez
>Then some assholes came along
They were called the Eastman film company. Cameras are why representing life became pointless
Expressionism didn't just influence painters, it touched the entire artistic world and everything you see in modern film, visual design, even graffiti owe what they are to the movement away from pure realism.
Isaiah Campbell
>chooses a painting from the impressionist movement, that literally did challenge tradition through it's innovative style, and paintings from that style were considered "barely a sketch" by critics of the time
Jack Perez
Recommend me a book then.
Jace Bennett
Great. Now read again what I wrote next to that pic.
Ayden Edwards
>Read a history book
Boats are sexy
Gabriel Perez
I mean, isn't wrong. Art used to be about beauty. And then it turned into something else.
>t. studied art history in college a few years ago lol
John Stewart
If anyone is as confused as I was - it's a joke, and the sculpture in the pic is "And Life is Over There", which can be seen in the city center of The Hague, Netherlands.
Caleb Kelly
>dudes
Lmao reminds me od a guy who said the same
Thomas James
Thermite. Now.
Christian Gutierrez
REJECT MODERNlTY. EMBRACE TRADITION.
Robert Flores
SMUG WOJAK is the art of today.