/lit/ - Literature

>>9468658

Here's the issue with this argument: a mediocre or even bad painting by an artist who is aiming for traditional achievement through craft still has plenty to offer us. Whatever level of craft it offers is enjoyable to that level. Traditional art is accessible.

Contemporary, deskilled art, is much more binary. Either it's clever or affecting it is a pile of random objects or a splatter of paint. OF course there is work that is successful in this mode, but the mode being the DOMINANT mode means that we are drowning in shit that literally offers no value to anybody but people who are making it, the people highly educated in abstract intellectual/ideological games that use these artworks as points of departure.

The big mistake is the shift in focus, not the creation of a new artistic vocabulary. I'm all for specialist artworks that are studies in texture or color or are pure concept, but the problem is that this art is presented as non-specialist, as art-in-general.