Hot take art should look good
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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Wow. Someone used this template correctly.
I disagree. What even is art if not expression? If art is only about enjoyment what makes it any different from a slice of pizza? I agree that the “lazy” modern art trope of blank canvases and bananas taped to walls is kind of overplayed and boring at this point, but the fact is that this kind of expression was revolutionary at one point. Take the Duchamp fountain for example. Also, I do believe understanding the rules of art will allow you to subvert them effectively. Picasso is a good example. Even renaissance paintings were revolutionary at one point, since the realistic style conflicted with church doctrine.
Art use to be good, use to have depictions of hell, paintings of heaven, paintings of women and men enjoying everyday life, flowers, food, children playing etc
now you get a smear of shit on a canvas and they say “its a deconstruction of the capitalist imperial system, whilst also being a commentary on the wasteful nature of human beings as a whole….its super deep!”
no, its shit smeared on a canvas….. where is the van gogh sunflowers! wear is starry night?….nope just shit smeared on a canvas, i fucking hate post-modern/modern art
it’s relaxing
when a 5 years old color codes their family, that is expression
expression is easy, the skill to make the expression look good is what makes a artist
Honestly, I don’t care if people like it. But I think it is shit.
Art should look good to please me.
Now if the artist makes billions doing shit, good for him.
Me irl
It DOES look like shit. And it feels like COLD shit. Lol.
Goya.
they just want excuses to feel good about the garbage they made
Art is supposed to evoke emotions. If you look at a painting and get worked up about how something do “ugly” hangs in a gallery then that’s a good work from the artist.
Hot take: saying something “should look good” is useless because looking good is subjective. It’s an opinion. Unless you are trying to say every artist should appeal to your tastes and only your tastes and all art you dont like should be burned.
Sorry bud, you’re the low IQ wojak on the “knowing what subjective content is” table.
Wow, you came to this conclusion all by yourself? You must be so proud…
art is subjective, it looks good to you, depending on your personal opinion.
Then as you mature even more you realise the “art” pieces selling for extremely high prices are all just money laundering
Art is always open to interpretation. What you think looks shit, someone somewhere might look at and think it’s the most beautiful thing they’ve ever seen.
And where someone might look at something and think it’s profound, I might look at and feel nothing but an absolute utter sense of rage that some fail-child, a prick who’s way too rich for his own good, who wants to pretend they have a deep understanding of art, has paid someone more than you or I will ever make in our lifetime (a drop in the bucket of their accounts sheet) for a canvas that has 4 rectangles of the exact same hues, luminance and saturation levels of Red.
Fuck that. Someone who spends their every waking moment working on an exquisite, detailed sculpture, or the thousands of VFX artists world wide collectively making but a fraction of a decimal in comparison, is why that canvas with fuck all but some red boxes is pure art as it is a true commentary on how fucked our oligarchical society is.
Sorry rant over.
wow that looks like shit
I don’t get it
And what “look good” means?
To be honest it depends on what one finds shit and what not, often I see art that I think is awesome looking and others say it’s shit and often I find art shit that others find awesome. So… yeah there isn’t really a universal measure for what is shit and what is not.
An interesting take on this is the painting [„The Fallen Angel“]
) by Alexandre Cabanel, which today is viewed as a beautiful piece of art, whilst back in 1847 was viewed as amateurly and a profoundly bad attempt at painting.
HENRI. MUTHERFUHKIN. MATISSE. And I’ll DIE on this hill.
That’s just it is art can look good to somebody you and 99% of the world may hate it but the 1% will and thus it’s good looking.
Or at least be interesting
There’s a difference in innovation on the rules and being bad at/disregarding them. Part of great art is knowing how to break the rules so that it does look good and unique.
my take is, art should make you feel something since it’s artist expression of self and mind, you could feel good, bad or horrified when you “enjoy” it. it doesn’t matter as long it’s convey something. or at least please your eyes when you look at it (again it make you feels good). other than that it’s either money laundering or “worthless intellectual fart”
Same with literature and poetry sounding good
Art can be avant garde while still looking good. Ideally you want both meaning and aesthetic value.
Still looks like shit
“art should look good” *uses wojaks to say this because their ugliness expresses things about the people being discussed in ways that beautiful art never could*
not really, if we only have good looking art, it would grow repetitive at some point. Anyone can draw good, but not many can draw ugly. Besides, if we never have bent the rules and made “ugly” art, we wouldn’t have had cartoons or anime, because we’d be stuck at realistic beauty of old art. There is a lot of good looking arts, so I’d say it’s nice we also have something else as well
“Art should be aesthetically pleasing to me” is one of the oldest and coldest takes on art.
Yes, this banana taped to a wall that needs replacing every so often is absolutely peak of artistic expression, right?
… <_<
That means you don’t understand art at all. Many modern, widely accepted, and famous works of art were not recognized at the time they were produced, but later, people came to understand their value.
Additionally, it’s completely okay to dislike something.
But saying “it’s shit” simply means you are being ignorant, plain and simple.