Meh, all you really need is a tacky “live love laugh” font on distressed wood.
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jarfil@beehaw.org 1 week ago“artists don’t deserve a living wage” or “they don’t do real art”
Blame the “Modern Art” movement, where a black square, or canned literal shit, can be worth millions.
At some point, people realized that they don’t need real art, just to decorate an office or house space with “artsy looking” stuff, so they went on a chase to the bottom. That used to be random people from third world countries working for peanuts… now it’s LLMs and GenAI working for fractions of peanuts.
Same thing has been going in all areas. Who needs a slab of real ice for their fridge, when they can get fake ice for a fraction of the cost.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 week ago
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
What does a canned shit have to do with contracting out a new logo or a dnd character portrait?
jarfil@beehaw.org 1 week ago
Customer perception of the value of art in general. You don’t get to call it all art, without muddying the perception.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
So, if there weren’t canned shits, people would be willing to pay for illustrators more often?
jarfil@beehaw.org 1 week ago
There is a long history of artists "pushing the envelope… by self-deprecating and making “statements” about how ridiculous the market for art is.
You don’t get to shove Dada, a Campbell’s soup can, canned “artist’s shit”, a black square on a canvas, a pile of trash, a shirt on a coat hanger, a self-shredding copy of a graffiti, and thousands of similar examples, all under the same label as the Louvre, illustrators, writers, etc… then magically have people value all artistic work.
There has been continuous serious damage done to the concept of “art”, and now come the consequences.