Schwinnz
06-17-2005, 02:36 AM
(do not take my opinion and apply it to all art done, I know it doesn't apply)
Personally I think art has lost it's real and powerful value all because of the money people leading it these days.
We see a lot of pictures, paintings, songs and even texts and other art forms that do nothing else but being nice very often. This really sickens me because art is probably the only thing can propagate messages to just about everyone, independant from their social status or beliefs.
Producers, with all their "popular" culture, not in a sense of real popularity but how people name it, is just cutting money to all other emergent, different or indie cultures. I mean, heck, even the name is a lie too. Popular culture is just a culture controlled and thought to make money. It's art without meaning, often very very similar to anything. Conformism is a rule and when you are different to us, we disregard you. This is a very bad way to incult respect and good sense to a society. In movies you get the same formula over and over, same for games, music.
In music the pop culture just takes all the place. Anything that is different will never get any money. You have pop without lyrics at all, empty words without a sense. In rap you get rappers playing gangstas, sayin' they're pimps, saying girls are hos, showing their bling, cars, moneys.. Worst thing is that people get used to it from their very childhood and would never for the most part dare looking at what is done in indie and underground scenes.
In movies you either have that pro-american propaganda or the usual remake, often just killing the movie and adding more FX.
Paintings or general images also get emptied from their meaning. There are a lot of paintings and images that carry ideas or thoughts, but where is the real market for that except a few interested people, (this goes for all medias).
People who do it for the sake of it and want to make people think are very often discouraged to do so. There is no real incentive to take some of your time and do it. It's hard to be distributed. It's hard to get your stuff out there. It takes a lot of time and money to do art, and it's not with disillusionned people working in grocery stores and places like that that it's really gonna evolve.
We don't get masters anymore it seems. When is the last time you heard about a great painter who changes things, a movie who is revolutionnary who had some theater time ? There are some who get merit, but never as much as they should deserve. Art today has become a product. They produce consumable products, not art. And those consumable products are there for the sole purposes of entertaining our feeble minds that they only want to become more feeble and being consumed. Consumed and immediately forgotten. Forget art, the prime value is money and power, nothing else.
Art is sick, how do we cure it ?
Personally I think art has lost it's real and powerful value all because of the money people leading it these days.
We see a lot of pictures, paintings, songs and even texts and other art forms that do nothing else but being nice very often. This really sickens me because art is probably the only thing can propagate messages to just about everyone, independant from their social status or beliefs.
Producers, with all their "popular" culture, not in a sense of real popularity but how people name it, is just cutting money to all other emergent, different or indie cultures. I mean, heck, even the name is a lie too. Popular culture is just a culture controlled and thought to make money. It's art without meaning, often very very similar to anything. Conformism is a rule and when you are different to us, we disregard you. This is a very bad way to incult respect and good sense to a society. In movies you get the same formula over and over, same for games, music.
In music the pop culture just takes all the place. Anything that is different will never get any money. You have pop without lyrics at all, empty words without a sense. In rap you get rappers playing gangstas, sayin' they're pimps, saying girls are hos, showing their bling, cars, moneys.. Worst thing is that people get used to it from their very childhood and would never for the most part dare looking at what is done in indie and underground scenes.
In movies you either have that pro-american propaganda or the usual remake, often just killing the movie and adding more FX.
Paintings or general images also get emptied from their meaning. There are a lot of paintings and images that carry ideas or thoughts, but where is the real market for that except a few interested people, (this goes for all medias).
People who do it for the sake of it and want to make people think are very often discouraged to do so. There is no real incentive to take some of your time and do it. It's hard to be distributed. It's hard to get your stuff out there. It takes a lot of time and money to do art, and it's not with disillusionned people working in grocery stores and places like that that it's really gonna evolve.
We don't get masters anymore it seems. When is the last time you heard about a great painter who changes things, a movie who is revolutionnary who had some theater time ? There are some who get merit, but never as much as they should deserve. Art today has become a product. They produce consumable products, not art. And those consumable products are there for the sole purposes of entertaining our feeble minds that they only want to become more feeble and being consumed. Consumed and immediately forgotten. Forget art, the prime value is money and power, nothing else.
Art is sick, how do we cure it ?