Originally Posted by dylanshmai
LOLOLOLOL. Its funny, because he will start doing something abstract and then brush over it 5 more times to make it a solid line. This is not art. he is constantly checking himself and painting over gut instinct brushes, but never going anywhere with it. I have seen Japanese painters like this, but who put a lot more thought into it and much much more dramatic and a much much more dramatic effect, but still making it whimsy and minimalist which this guy is obviously going for, but completely failing at it as he is often even distracted by the pain he gets on himself. The environment is all wrong, and he is making sloppy judgments and the strokes of a 2 year old who has an understanding of basic geometry.
Its amazing though how much shitty art gets noticed and sold these days when so little artistic value can be found in it. This kind of art is obviously suited for this kind of shitty video format and an audience while doing it along with a shitty ass song and a shitty ass painter who is just a shitty ass circus act.
Incredible anyone would post this here other than laughs. I am almost offended by this. I have been in art school for almost all my childhood life, and everyone on my moms side was very very artistic. You ain't seen weird till you've met an artist, let me tell you.
In this post lies all of the absolute worst character aspects of being an "educated artist."
The very first thing they should have told you, in your childhood lifetime of art, is to respect the subjectivity of it. The speed and unorthodoxy that the guy did the painting in, alone, should lead you not to expect some meticulously detailed masterpiece. But to say that what he did was "not art" is just asinine.
Now, I will submit that he seemed a bit arrogant in the way he was jumping around and putting on such a show, but that is his technique, and I found it entertaining. I really liked the negative space image of the firefighter, even before he began coloring it in. Someone that has just recently picked up their first brush wouldn't know a thing about negative space but - even jumping around wildly as he did - this guy pulled it off nicely.
The problem with getting an "education" in something like the arts is that, once your standards are set to a certain level, anything that doesn't live up to the standards your university taught you is immediately trash (we'll call it "my daddy can beat up your daddy syndrome"). I've taken very few art classes to date, but I'm pretty confident that some of my work is better than many "educated artists" out there. Do I have the right to call their work trash, because they can't compete with me, or is my art trash because I'm not yet familiar with all of the formal art concepts that one might learn in school (yet)?
Anyway. Interesting show. Great song (Hero). Cool technique. And the final product - while not the most impressive thing I've ever seen - is definitely respectable, IMHO.
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