abstract and modern art haters are sooo snobby like klein literally Created an entirely new pigment and then painted a canvas in a way where the brush strokes wouldn’t be visible. the insinuation that people with no skill could reproduce that is so annoying because unless you are skilled at color mixing and painting you definitely couldn’t lmao
Also even in the case of works where the technical skill required isn’t immense, you can never recreate it because art is a product of its context!
To use the example of Jackson Pollock, he didn’t wake up one day and decide to make a bunch of splatters, he was part of a movement of abstract expressionists, specifically born out of the surrealist movement’s focus on automatic and subconscious decisions, hence the decision to physically distance the hand of the artist from the canvas. His work emphasized the motion of the painter’s strokes, not their subject or intent. If you seek to just recreate his work(which is impossible given the automatic and chaotic systems at play), you’ll never have the context it was made in or the same artistic goals.
And even if none of that were true, none of the “anyone could do that!” Crowd are going out and doing it!sube you could, but you don’t, and that’s exactly the point!
The way capitalist societies incentivize a lack of education about the arts is so sinister, and also just fucking annoying, because it results in people who don’t want to have their worldview challenged.
do u ever just see an art style that makes u wanna draw. like not necessarily draw similar to that style but just like looking at it you’re like :J and it just instantly boosts ur motivation to make ur own stuff
