Someone please explain to me how this is art (1 Viewer)

[athenaaa]

 

[dark_tranquility]

Looks unfinished and bland.

2/10

 

[athenaaa]

Looks unfinished and bland.

2/10

Thats what I thought

 

[dark_tranquility]

Thats what I thought

I know art is subjective but that's taking the piss.
a 5 year old could make a better one.

 

[centen]

From what I understand, if you see it in person, you can see the intricacies of the brush strokes that were necessary to create the final effect. It's art that's meant to be seen in person and understood for the immense skill it would take to create to get that end result, not something for google images.

 

[Ahsoka]

Googles definition is: “The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.”

No matter how nice I want to be I don’t see which of this criteria it meets.

 

[athenaaa]

From what I understand, if you see it in person, you can see the intricacies of the brush strokes that were necessary to create the final effect. It's art that's meant to be seen in person and understood for the immense skill it would take to create to get that end result, not something for google images.

I did see it in person

 

[athenaaa]

Googles definition is: “The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.”

No matter how nice I want to be I don’t see which of this criteria it meets.

Imagination? Emotion?? Yeah I don’t see it

 

[Myth]

art is in the eye of the beholder as they say.

Honestly like, as an artist, I've been in the trenches of this discourse about "what makes art 'art'" and artists trying to push the bounds of what that definition could be by stripping art down by reducing it over and over. I kind of find it fascinating that really simple things like a shoe on a wall or a blank canvas can elicit high reactions when people take them, and present them as "art".

I think just though looking at art history and the ideas and how people pushed the bounds over time, I do think that after mastering things like realism, you eventually want to explore something else and that leads to abstraction and deconstruction. I almost see it as an inevitable point that bare minimum presentations such as this would eventually become the outcome, yk? People would want to see how complex and how minimal they can make things and really question the definition and ways you can approach "art".

I don't really have a point here. I guess I don't think it's worth being frazzled over weird "art" like this. If it speaks to someone for whatever silly or meaningful reason, that's cool. I think it's really cool that something as simple as a couple of lines on a canvas to complex sculptures can move people and ideally, all should coexist and it doesn't have to be one or the other.

Yes yes I wrote an essay. I am semi passionate about this. Sue me

 

[StirFriedPanda]

This is how really intelligent artists sucker stupid rich people out of their money. It used to make me mad but now I only see someone smarter than the person who is parting with their money.

 

[MK3AM]

maybe its a portal /j

 

[Selfmate]

just because you could never OP!!!

 

[x_x]

this looks like the biggest slice of american kraft singles

 

[PloryWinxyMYBlnk]

I should have done this and made bank!!!

Because suckers people will buy anything, right??? Apparently, yes!!

 

[Wingfrost]

Maybe there’s a hidden secret doodle

 

[athenaaa]

this looks like the biggest slice of american kraft singles

I SEE IT! It is a masterpiece

 

[Yerichu]

REAL MASTER OF ART

 

[Moguri]

Tbh if I saw this without anyone telling me about it, I would have just thought they forgot to put a picture there

 

[StirFriedPanda]

Tbh if I saw this without anyone telling me about it, I would have just thought they forgot to put a picture there

They did forget to put a picture on the canvas.