Comments on: Art is dead. Or fucked up.

By: stacy

stacy — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:29:47 +0000

Art never dies. It evolves, of course, and during the course of that evolution, we need to discern between the pretenders and the real thing. That may seem important to us now, but the final decision will rest with the art historians of the future.

I wonder how many of them once thought Picasso was fucked up until they appreciated his technique.

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Mut zur Kunst « Aus dem Hollerbusch — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:13:44 +0000

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By: Nesi

Nesi — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:04:48 +0000

Look at http://www.dawanda.com it is a great site where people sell all sorts of things made by themselfs! I don’t know if you can call this art, but I love to find unique thing there which really have a heart!

By: Oliver

Oliver — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:41:05 +0000

Art is not more dead than 1000 years ago. And not more fucked up than ever. You will have to, as before, search for it. If you think that virtual art is dead art, you are wrong. Just because we have the technology to create art in a digital form and to copy it unlimited time, the work of the artist is not discounted.

I agree with you that again like many times in the past, and much to often the controversial smartasses get too much attention and money to do things that are not art.

But I see the digital possibilities as a liberation of artists that can use their talents to create the type of visual or aural art that they want without having to rent an atelier and buy something else than a laptop.

Of course this creates a flood or work from people who have no skills that might drown out the real art. And the possibilities to make money lead companies to create easy to digest crap instead of promoting the good quality and hard work.

However I do not think that there was any different from what happened during Mozarts times. Many today famous artists from the past never got any recognition during their lifetime. And I am sure that there were thousands of artists that were listened to despite having little talent instead but just following a fashion or being controversial for some time.

I think it is safe to say that if you cannot find art, you simply do not search hard enough. Looking in museums does not help. These places are for dead artists or people who are politically fit for the management there.