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Maybe I'm just drunk and missing something, but.... Why is this in Funny?
Is it just that whoever wrote the text at the top is a little bit cringe? Is it that the art itself is, I dunno, derivative? Is it something to do with the actual stop sign? I'm lost.....
You are asking all the right questions imo
How can you not be an art fan? Do you like only excel spreadsheets?
Maybe the same kind of person that says "Im not a big politics person" like no you just dont like using your brain.
I suspect that they mean specifically paintings, rather than all art.
Still quite a bit weird, but not as bizarre as your interpretation would suggest 🤷🏻
You'd be surprised how boring some human minds are. I recently heard someone say "I don't care for art unless it means something". As if totally ignorant to the fact that it's nearly impossible to create a thing without it meaning something to the artist. I think this dude meant "if it doesn't mean something to me personally, and probably due to a religious overtone, it's worthless". Pretty sad and boring self-centered experience if you ask me.
Most of my art doesn't mean anything. I essentially run a procedural generation script like I'm a Minecraft server or a screensaver or something. The pieces that contain some meaning are usually limited to being visually pleasing or practically useful rather than having artistic meaning. The meaninglessness has made me very depressed for most of my life, but I've been making some progress recently on not giving a shit. (Shout-out to Erasmus from the Dune prequels. I feel your pain, buddy.)
And that's cool too. I mean "being visually pleasing" has a meaning in a sense too. It makes you feel a certain way, and that feeling can be different for every viewer. Sure that probably sounds "woo woo" or something but a thing that pleases you means something to you. Also just the act of creation can be very therapeutic and that's meaningful in its own way too. I wish you luck with your depression. That one has been a bitch for me as well. In fact I never feel like I have time to make art, but when I do it feels great.
I'm not a visual art fan. When I read manga I pay way more attention to the text than the art. Visual art is innocuous to me, it's just there. Like, if you knew someone in college who had a bunch of movie posters in their room, after you've been in their room a few times you don't even notice any more? It's like that from the start with all static visual art (paintings/statues/pictures etc) for me.
manga without the art.... like a book?
basically, I didn't even notice until I was reading chapter discussions and people were discussing some of the background characters doing something silly that I had no idea was happening.
Ok, what about other art forms?
I never "got" dance, ballet, neoclassical, modern--that sort of dance. I'd watch a video once in a while, and while impressive athletically, I never connected with it emotionally. Until I saw this. I don't know what's different. But, now I get it, at least some of it.
NOW THATS WHAT I CALL ART
