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[–] DiscoPosting@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago

measurehead — "GOOD ART CLARIFIES THE MIND AND HINTS AT FORGOTTEN VALUES. GOOD ART IS MAN'S DIVINE RIGHT AND TERRIBLE DUTY. THE WHINING, COPING, HAM SANDWICH RACE WISHES TO DESTROY THE CANON."

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

this feels fascist

this is basically the nazi obsession with removed art (the fact it was removed implies worse words than what I actually said)

[–] Ericthescruffy@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

If "Hints at Forgotten Values" and "Believes in, and tries to produce, beauty" weren't enough then "Good art is man's divine right and terrible duty" should remove all doubt. Its most definitely Fasch.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

On the offchance anyone doesn't know, it's the word that's the opposite of regenerate

[–] axont@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

One time I recommended Uncut Gems to a coworker, and she gave it a shot. She said it was the most bizarre film she had ever seen and it was completely contrary to her values.

I asked what she meant, she told me she thought Howard was going through a redemption arc. That he'd eventually see the error of his ways after winning the basketball gamble and go around to everyone he wronged to apologize, hand them money, and then convert to Christianity (yes she said this). She told me she felt weird for days after seeing it. I think she's more used to watching creepy evangelical propaganda movies.

So that's what this guy reminds me of

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[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How are these losers still crying about Duchamp's fountain over 100 years later?

data-laughing

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

People still get absolutely furious at it decades later, so Im going to go ahead and say it's good art

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The ironic thing is that since the fountain exists to question what counts as art, any critique of it that frames it as bad art has already conceded that Duchamp is right.

[–] PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

It's so good

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

Long way to say that according to them, good art conforms to their biases, while bad art challenges them.

I'd argue it's the opposite. Good art should challenge the way you think, it should be capable of making you uncomfortable.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

every single descriptor for "good art" makes the most sense if you're thinking it's talking about porn lmao. i wonder if the author would agree?

[–] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Uhm epSCUSE me, it is actually Very Important to have Good Art as it can only be produced and appreciated by superior* (*western, male) beings such as myself, see below for an important example

[–] HotSoda@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago (14 children)

That is legit a great sculpture too. Cloth is extremely difficult to sculpt.

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[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

Good art is when awooga

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

also I don't understand why I would have to fight or die for that statue. Maybe I'm an idiot here but if you want more sculptures how about instead of killing people make statues

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

I think they mean fight and die for booba

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[–] GayTuckerCarlson@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Calling myself Dark Triad man because I piss the bed

[–] ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 2 years ago

Produces Momentum

Good Art^TM^ solving entropy.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Real kino art is back on the menu boys.

[–] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 years ago

Hell yeah. Makes me feel weird. Confuses my mind. Spit on beauty. Weed. Perfect image. 10 out of 10.

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Some twisted, malevolently bad cartographer somewhere:

:sicko-yes: i'm making this map wrong on purpose

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[–] Judge_Jury@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

His whole feed is distilled fart-huffing. Gonna grab a few favorite snippets:

Beyond a certain level of intensity, ambition, and drive, of course "normal" people will start squirming around you. Elon knows this and has made his peace with it a long time ago

Only Ayn Rand was smart enough to predict that incompetence and an ENVY for excellence will lead to dystopian social outcomes.

The Unabomber Manifesto🧵

Ted Kaczynski’s IQ: 167 Harvard admission: At 15 Youngest ever math prof, UCB: At 25 Money spent by FBI to find him: $50+ mil

The manifesto attacks modern civilization like nothing else before or since

13 best insights from a Philosopher-Terrorist👇🏻

It's amazing that Jordan Peterson delivered his most based material inside a fucking university.

And now that he has infinite wealth he can only deliver platitudes.

I have to stop, this could go on forever

[–] axont@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

It's amazing that Jordan Peterson seemed slightly more normal when surrounded by peers and held to some level of accountability (not much)

Oh but now that he's much more wealthy and unaccountable to anyone suddenly his life falls apart. Weird

[–] HotSoda@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

It has to be satire.

Right?

[–] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A seething, unstructured, arythmic thing that made you feel weird, sapped your energy, set off a downward spiral, confused your mind, spat on beauty, mocked the very concept of values and enfeebled life itself? That is not bad art. That is a Great Old One.

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[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

makes you feel weird

Waaah, all art must exist as shallow, uplifting slop!

mocks the concept of values

How dare an artist endeavour to make something that questions my values!

[–] EpicKebabEater@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I am "instinctively recognized as a scam".

Only thing that really fits is NFTs.

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[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

I'm Bad Art making you feel weird rather than good.

[–] VHS@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (6 children)
[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It sucks that perspective, color theory, light logic, and anatomy don't exist anymore. I wish it took even less than a single google search to find art tutorials, artists with open commissions, and professional artists posting their work on instagram. This is coming from the same jokesters who deride people for studying art for their occupation. This is a funny one because it doesn't even feel like they're saying poor or queer people shouldn't exist, this is just them being uninformed hypocrites straight up.

Edit: Noticing that Fun with a Pencil (Pain with a Pencil), came out in 1939. Loomis' work has been wildly influential on how people do figure drawing/portrait drawing but somehow standards were decreasing and continued to decrease despite his influence in the realm of "art"

[–] JuneFall@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

The world was created in 1800.

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

Lord give me the confidence of PragerU when they make these graphs. They know their audience is a bunch of clapping seals who will unquestioningly believe this affront to knowledge as a concept.

[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

1859 had so many fucking bangers very-smart

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[–] temptest@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Is that picture good art?

[–] Zuzak@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hayao Miyazaki vs Junji Ito is my favorite meme too, but you don't see me going around generalizing it.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

I think this does a disservice to Miyazaki. He's a snob and you can criticize the writing quite easily, but he at least appreciates the connection of animation to one's experience of life rather than as an abstract exercise in pleasant stimulation.

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