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I dread to think of what will happen to all the arts once us boomers are gone. Who goes to the theaters, orchestras, concerts, museums and even churches except gray hairs now? It will all die with us unless the younger people start appreciating them.
@@themysteriousdomainmoviepalace the protection of one's artwork in the digital age is more of a concern than the loss of brick & mortar buildings. Even Van Gogh art has been displayed in a more complex, interactive, exhilarating way. Flat walls are no longer the limit. Virtual games create unlimited worlds, reglion is also now a market, virtual amusement rides, online acquaintances/friends & soon virtual food experiences. The transaction is already happening. The same problem exists, how to get your work in front of the publics eyes without being pirated? Or collect royalties if it has? Laws haven't kept up with protections. Even then you must have money to enforce your rights. This video has given myself more things to ponder than just art. As I am sure it will many.
Theater is so dead it no longer stinks, and rightly so. Clever Noel Coward stuff is dead, Neil Simon stuff is dead, off and off-off and off-off-off Broadway stuff is masturbation for the handful of people who like to think of themselves as somehow preserving the theater. This is a culture that values hip-hop music and discusses it seriously. LOL. I expect nothing from anyone alive today in terms of "art," whatever that may be.
I’m concerned that no one reads books anymore, particularly the children, because they are too busy with ‘schedules’ and looking at their phones or TV. The museums and symphony orchestras have all dumbed down to appeal to the masses. I don’t go to the symphony anymore and the museums that used to be mostly empty (and enjoyable because of that), are crowded now with the various ploys to get the masses in for some blockbuster event.
@ReneeCelesteFlanders ebooks are a persons only real choice because people of technology seem to prefer online. Notice how most newspapers have? No effort to gather or dispose of them. As for museums most that are surviving are interactie. Orchestra's were once cutting edge in their time. Think Beethoven - he was cutting edge. Now the only time the majority of people hear any classical music is in movies, even that is just snippets.
Art is alive , never been easy for artists to make a living of their craft it's self therapy, just do what you want, what you can with what you have. Trust me, i live in a town in total chaos
Out of every great civilization that ever existed on this earth, the only remnants of its existence, is the art left behind. Statues, paintings, jewelry and architecture. Keep creating, don’t worry about where it fits in today’s world.
I am a dealer in an antique mall. Yesterday, a young lady (gen z) wanted me to take an abstract painting down from the wall. She said it moved her and she bought it. It was painted by the booth owner. So I see this younger generation appreciating real art. Invest your time in your backyard, and you will succeed as an artist.
It's not just the art world that's falling part Dries, it's the whole damn world. The system hasn't been built to favor us, but, as you say, to keep us enslaved. You are bang on with your view of this crazy place we live in, and the scoundrels who run it.
To quote my cousin who's in his last stages of ALS: Hi Henry! I like the picture of the painting that you sent me. I took a picture of it with my mind and when I close my eyes and I lay in bed I like to look at the picture I like the winding road and the colors keep up the good work. - art isn't dead - capitalism and art don't mesh. Art is alive. Don't make art for money, just stop it
But you're right too of course - people don't value high quality stuff. We should leave our valuable art offline. It's very depressing how culture is commodified in this ai hellscape
I disagree... art is not dying, at all. The world is in a state of change, as it always has been. I'm an artist and have found my outlet online. I was an artist's agent back in the day. It's about adapting. 🎉
Lol.."adapting" sounds a lot like surviving to me.,,, but when it's said and done, art as a living, I wouldn't suggest it. I love art, I went the normal routes. I made money, SOMETIMES. But enough to live on, rarely.
I think people will start to wake up to the crap they're being fed. Most older people can't recognise AI art, but the younger generation is a lot more aware. As to 'real' art, the good stuff will go down in history while the bad stuff gets painted over, restorers use for practice etc. Quality always shines through eventually. There are old masters whose painting are admired whose name we don't know. We have the imagination, the purpose, the reasons to make art, AI doesn't, which is why it's crap.
Great performance, Dries! Bravo! 🏆 - I’m old enough to see major and subtle changes in the art world. Yes, art is dying, and it’s also being reborn. New technology, ideas, politics, religious shifts, free speech, taboo, spite, mockery, etc. are all part of the transition. The next best thing comes and goes so quickly. People want to make a buck, impress their friends, feel good about themselves, and maybe leave a mark on the world. - I would love to be able to paint like John Singer Sargent because I think his technique is fantastic. No other reason than just to have that skill level and way of perceiving figures. His art never died, although John passed in 1925.
This happens with every advancement in tech. When photography became a thing people said art is dead. Especially with it being all anyone talked about early on. But now it's part of art in it's own genre. The same with phones getting better with filters and everyone can post art now. Then the luddites rise up and try to stop it. They fail, and everything goes back to normal again.
Early photographic practices were often monopolized by those with the resources to afford costly equipment and chemicals, creating a clear divide between professional and amateur photographers. The rise of photography was harnessed by those maintaining the status quo to shift traditional art into institutional and academic settings, where it could be controlled, classified, and commodified. In its early days, photography held a sense of magic and alchemy. Photographers using processes like daguerreotypes or wet plate collodion treated their craft as a near-mystical endeavor. However, as technology advanced, this hands-on craftsmanship gave way to more mechanical and automated methods, stripping much of the mystery from the medium. Some early photographic techniques-such as photograms, cyanotypes, and autochromes-faded into obscurity, replaced by more commercially viable methods like film and, later, digital photography. This transition not only changed the medium but also contributed to a broader artistic shift. The decline of realism as a dominant movement made room for the rise of abstraction and modernism. One of the greatest casualties of this shift was the limners. Descended from itinerant guilds that had preserved sacred artistic knowledge since the creation of illuminated manuscripts, they were among the last to carry forward this tradition. Their delicate miniatures, often used in lockets or as keepsakes, were swiftly supplanted by early photographic prints like daguerreotypes. Photography soon became a powerful tool for state propaganda and advertising, reinforcing existing power structures. Its perceived objectivity gave it a unique ability to shape public perception, making it a weapon of influence in the hands of those seeking to maintain control.
Only one group matters and they think they are superior. We can tell by the art they choose to put in these museum exhibits, that inside their little bubble there is no truth.
I don't think colleges fail students on purpose. I think the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. An art professor often never had to make a struggling business work, so they don't necessarily know to tell their students that they need to take business classes to learn how to setup and manage their art business. Many teachers and professors don't know how the whole system works, so they don't know how to recommend the right path. It might be the burden of the younger generations to re-organization education so it is more useful. The education system is designed to educate people at particular IQs levels. And IQ levels often dictate what a person is capable of (at a maximum level). Creative arts have their own equivalent of IQ. Some artists learn and produce better art at a much faster rate. Most of life is a race to the middle, and the middle is mediocrity. Oddly enough, many people aren't even achieving the middle, at this point. The system has leaks.
Quality is being replaced by an online community that has to supports your average quality art... if you can't succeed at networking, at attracting an online community, an online following you have no future...
I don't see why we should think that the percentage of people affected by art is lower now than in the time of Caravaggio or Leonardo da Vinci. In reality, it doesn't matter if millions of people prefer their portraits over any artwork. Art will always have an impact on those who are in the right moment to appreciate it. In my opinion, there is no relationship between the effort that the artist puts into the work and whether that work is considered art. It is not a matter of effort.
Art is far from dead; it is simply undergoing a transformation. We are witnessing a shift towards a more utilitarian approach. The masses on their phones have never traditionally paid for art, and that hasn't changed. Art hasn't lost these individuals; it never had them as paying customers in the first place. Historically, only the affluent could afford art, while the rest found joy in crafts and DIY decorations. I think today, art is evolving and expanding. The world has never been more visual. Artists are increasingly becoming designers. Instead of solely creating original art works, they are venturing into industrial design for all kinds of products sold both online and offline. The artists also create artistic presentations to enhance the appeal of these items to the masses. In this new era, art and design intertwine, bringing creativity to everyday objects and making the world a more visually engaging place.
Not at all, I could give you links of ten magnificent artists who live and create in our time, you've probably never heared of. This crap we have in expensive galeries serves for rich people to legalize their dirty money, just don't pay any attention on that.
You got it, Dries... we in the west are born into slavery. The job is buying your freedom back from being born in the first place... just like some lucky slaves formerly did in the southern US south. Big money/living big with some imaginary freedom is slavery luck. Living as small as you can be happy with is true freedom. You can continue to dream and strive in your "small" existence - which actually presents greater opportunities to go big naturally! No matter... be Happy, be SMart!
It's hard to see art clearly from within the warped system of commodification and art education. Originally, all the arts belonged to shamans-magical beings who used them to share wisdom from other realms, teaching and healing their communities. Over time, those in power enslaved and commodified art, severing its connection to magic. They reduced it to mere entertainment and self-glorification, ensuring it no longer threatened their authority or the status quo. AI art is just the latest step in distancing artists from the creative spark that could disrupt this control.
I'll prefer to look at smartphone, if all "art" in the museum are "Modern art" - bunch of blobs/lines on a wall, or taped banana. Today's normal art is living online, supported by Patreon.
It has long been clear to me, since I was very little, that the world is BS. Art is one of the few redeeming qualities of it. Very sad to see it dying. But, here is the thing, you can take away art from the collective value system, but you cannot take it from mine. Everything else around me can rot, but there is a place in my heart, that is reserved for beauty and value and that will stay pure forever, even if everyone else forgets about it. Even if it no longer exists in the world. I will leave you with Ballad of Serenity lyrics: Take My Love, Take My Land Take Me Where I Cannot Stand I Don't Care, I'm Still Free You Can't Take The Sky From Me Take Me Out To The Black Tell Them I Ain't Comin' Back Burn The Land And Boil The Sea You Can't Take The Sky From Me There's No Place I Can Be Since I Found Serenity But You Can't Take The Sky From Me...
This is brutal and funny as hell. I'm often surprised anyone buys anything in this saturated market and the copy paste way everyone decorates their houses with cheap prints. As you point out Art Thots seem to have taken over social media as well. But some people still sell stuff - not sure how much for though.
You made some good points here, I might write down a few and add my thoughts in a future video, thanks for sharing this! The art world, well the "pay millions for shit to dodge taxes" part of it, that needs exposing, not that it's going to do much, but at least we can bring more awareness to it. I'm guilty for creating some of the best looking realistic and landscape art, all for the purposes of having it all sit in my closet for 2 years, because I was dumb enough to believe someone when they made a "promise", I won't get into it, I could go on and on about it! Anyways, I realised that there's only one way for us small artists to go - LOCAL MARKETS!! The way I see it, there's no point in trying to strike it lucky in the art world now, especially after that stupid banana debacle, the golden age is gone! Small artists have a better chance at their local Saturday market or small gallery that accepts all kinds of work with no mafia connections required, those big lavish places will require connections, I've been told a LOT is needed too! Small and local is the best option for artists that still enjoy creating their passion on canvas. And for those that can teach, there's that option too, instead of trying to sell our art, teach it! Pass our talent to the next lot of people so they can pass it to the future generations. Bob Ross' talent is still being passed on and taught to this day!
Of course, an artist wants to be good enough to win the prayers of people who understand art, and ideally make a living from so they can spend more time making art and live comfortably. It's sad that Art is being automated by machines and pirated through computers, and unethical people will always take advantage of it. I think the messages that art needs to be done because you love art. Art should be bought because you love art. It's unfortunate that some people only buy art as an investment, just that it's sad that some people make art only to make a living. We have to focus on art for art sake, and create it because that's who we are.
I've never "made art." In fact, I have no idea what "art" is. I've made over-the-sofa stuff for decoration that matches the mood and color scheme of the buyer's room. Some of it is very modestly interesting, a lot is crap. But I recognize this: I have no illusions. Who in their right mind would buy and display Soutine's "A Barn Interior with a Slaughtered Pig, Children Playing Beyond" on their living room wall? I will never paint like Sorolla because I'm not Sorolla, but I will paint nontaxing local scenes that actually sell (sometimes) and ignore the "art world" because it is irrelevant. I have no need to paint fatuous scenes to satisfy the Catholic Church or the French Academy and display my technical mastery of the craft of painting. My theory of "art" is simply this: do you like it, will you buy it, then pay me.
Finally, my man! 8:31 The most honest video you've ever done and you have me laughing out loud because I relate to every word you've said. And I'm educated in the topic from firsthand experience for decades and I concur with what you are explaining to everyone here. Thank you for the honesty! I'm gonna continue watching and continue laughing my ass off like emperor Nero and his violin as the whole thing comes crashing down in flames. Why do people think those books were written in the 90s? The end of art, and after the end of art and similar titles. Arthur Donto knew exactly what he was talking about.
Well I still believe handmade art is still in demand, call me Old-Fashion but even if I don't make it, at least my cause is real to me a worth pursuing, so I'll stay with no matter how screwed this world is, someone has to stand up for what they believe. 😆
The process of creating is healing, is how we become our truest highest self...it is how we come to know ourselves...it is how we remember who we are...but trying to create to please others is indeed a losing race to the bottom.
So you paint for yourself and store your "art" in the attic because no one wants it. Are you healed? Did you become your "highest self"? That is psychotherapy, not art. But If it works for you, go for it. Just don't expect anyone else to be interested, much less pay for i
Funny I don't get inspiration from the majority of UA-cam great art great movies great music greatness in general inspires educate and entertains and I put my money up and support
Thanks I'm gonna go take the LONG nap now! Lol I'm a painter but also a musician and this message is very applicable in that industry as well. It's depressing. I might get beat up for saying this but, I feel like taking the bullshit "slave" job to pay the bills and then making art without worrying about making it a way of sustaining yourself is not a bad way to be able to enjoy making art. If the keys to making it as an artist are: being a musician like jelly roll or, being an artist like banana man or, being born into a rich family then what fulfillment are we really getting? Other than ego boosts of course.. being able to live off of any true art is extraordinary. And probably always has been.
Thank you. It really feels like that the world is falling apart from my Western perspective. It's an entertainment-world and I can follow your views and your perceptions. Let's see where we are heading to. For me HOPE gives me power and strength. All the best to you ❤
We're going away, and perhaps it's not that great a loss. Art was really our claim to fame, and if that's now out the window, the reason for our existence is getting really problematic 😏
Now that everyone has an iPhone the art of photography has been destroyed. Everyone now believes that they are a photographer because they took a pic of their dog at Niagara Falls. And everyone encourages them telling them how much they love the pic of their dog standing in front of Niagara Falls. Drive me mad.
It is worth pursuing great work and great art because during the endeavour, you are praying to God. And the final work, marked my competence or lack thereof, is an expression of the quality of your prayer (call it talent if you like). Prayer - to a God; to an infinite; to whatever your idea of transcendence is; to whatever Walt Whitman, Van Gough, Neil Adams, and countless others strived for - is marked by whatever you consider "quality." Quality per-se, is not something you will see addressed by those in the 'art world' or on UA-cam or in politics (your video being an exception). Certainly, not in the world of tech where I think we can safely say that the idea of transcendent human work is antithetical to their bitter and ruinous consideration of human endeavour. Nor even in the public at large: Multitudes! multitudes of people would stream past the occasional 'artist' and offer time, homage and money to the fraudulent spray painters of galaxies and planets while they shit out their crap with megaphones blaring on the streets of Las Ramblas in Barcelona (their techniques of course passed on in minutes to the next snake oil artist to keep the cash rolling in). It was ever thus. Everything you say addresses success within what passes for economics and public recognition but not the idea of transcendent quality and it was ever thus to a greater or lesser extent. It is unfair but true. Financially, it sucks, yes, but if you're not working to discover a greater truth about the 'world', and about yourself, then you're simply not working. Also, I'm sure you're aware the CIA pushed American abstract expressionism in the last century. Detach yourself and think honestly about quality not finance. And get your fucking hair cut.
Glad I downloaded the addon that allows to watch videos that 3 times the speed, because 2x was not fast enough to suffer through these mad ravings of an art doomer 😶 like I'm not asking for toxic positivity here, but giving everyone borderline depression and anxiety that they're a failure and will never amount to anything isn't really what I would call a good sales pitch... But you do you, if it works, it works.
You want kids to become adults who are interested in art and buy art?...start teaching kids art. Schools stopped teaching art and THIS is the real reason they are no longer interested.
This is sad. Art is not something created to be admired or needs to be looked at and appreciated 24 hours a day. Art is not created to worry if people like it. We only make it because it needs to be said, or created or vented or expressed. It has to come out of us. That's it. We only hang it in museums so others can also look ad admire and know what you were going through and how it's helping them. That's is. Let people look at their phones, it's just another version of art. None is better or worse than the other. Because it's not created to be judged, or loved, or hated, or admired, or talked about, it's just created because it has to be. Art is not dead, it's fine it's here it's all around. Love it, it's all around in everything stop being a hater and you'll see. Stop YOUR hate and judgment.
3 minutes in and I can't take any more. You sound like someone who got into painting just to sell painting, just be a broker. So judgmental, just complaining all the time, who cares if people only like ai Art or whatever, why do you care, just do your art. Just do yours and don't worry about other. 7 billion ways to make art out there and why waste your time complaining about a few who like it a way that you don't listening to how you speak and talk about art. I don't think you know what it is. Amd you have some physological things to work out.
All these rich people you want to sell your art to have lost their souls A VERY LONG TIME AGO, and they want your soul for LUNCH!!! Be careful who you sell your... soul to.
What a load of bull. Only thing dying is your bank account. I now artists with a next to nothing social media following who make 6 figures a year. Selling every painting that they make, but unlike you they make eye candy and top notch work.
oh shut up you have a course to sell and you make no meaningful art of your own. this argument would have legs to stand on if you actually were part of the art community and posted what was actually going on.
Holy transphobia?? Wtf was that opening bit? Did I hear you right?!?! Making a flipant joke that throws some trans people who opt to have surgery under the bust? Using a slur? Maybe it was a 30 second bit and you change right after I stopped watching, but I don't want to watch your video anymore and am unsubbing. Bye. Do better.
Please continue to RANT! The more you rant and spew half truths (lies), the more you convince artists to quit and I will have no competition as an Artist. You're doing me a great service. Keep it up!
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MCC will change the path for all creators and every thing will be fair.
what is mcc?
I dread to think of what will happen to all the arts once us boomers are gone. Who goes to the theaters, orchestras, concerts, museums and even churches except gray hairs now? It will all die with us unless the younger people start appreciating them.
Have been thinking about that as well. Powerful observation!
@@themysteriousdomainmoviepalace the protection of one's artwork in the digital age is more of a concern than the loss of brick & mortar buildings. Even Van Gogh art has been displayed in a more complex, interactive, exhilarating way. Flat walls are no longer the limit. Virtual games create unlimited worlds, reglion is also now a market, virtual amusement rides, online
acquaintances/friends & soon virtual food experiences. The transaction is already happening. The same problem exists, how to get your work in front of the publics eyes without being pirated? Or collect royalties if it has? Laws haven't kept up with protections. Even then you must have money to enforce your rights. This video has given myself more things to ponder than just art. As I am sure it will many.
Theater is so dead it no longer stinks, and rightly so. Clever Noel Coward stuff is dead, Neil Simon stuff is dead, off and off-off and off-off-off Broadway stuff is masturbation for the handful of people who like to think of themselves as somehow preserving the theater. This is a culture that values hip-hop music and discusses it seriously. LOL. I expect nothing from anyone alive today in terms of "art," whatever that may be.
I’m concerned that no one reads books anymore, particularly the children, because they are too busy with ‘schedules’ and looking at their phones or TV. The museums and symphony orchestras have all dumbed down to appeal to the masses. I don’t go to the symphony anymore and the museums that used to be mostly empty (and enjoyable because of that), are crowded now with the various ploys to get the masses in for some blockbuster event.
@ReneeCelesteFlanders ebooks are a persons only real choice because people of technology seem to prefer online. Notice how most newspapers have? No effort to gather or dispose of them. As for museums most that are surviving are interactie. Orchestra's were once cutting edge in their time. Think Beethoven - he was cutting edge. Now the only time the majority of people hear any classical music is in movies, even that is just snippets.
We just need to adapt, art will never die. I'm not giving up.
The end of this video has the key to immortality as an artist!
Never mistake craft for art. Never mistake propaganda for art.
@driesketels I'm already immortal as a spirit.
@TheRm65 is there a point to your comment? Was that supposed to mean something?
Respect
Art is alive , never been easy for artists to make a living of their craft it's self therapy, just do what you want, what you can with what you have. Trust me, i live in a town in total chaos
Out of every great civilization that ever existed on this earth, the only remnants of its existence, is the art left behind. Statues, paintings, jewelry and architecture. Keep creating, don’t worry about where it fits in today’s world.
I am a dealer in an antique mall. Yesterday, a young lady (gen z) wanted me to take an abstract painting down from the wall. She said it moved her and she bought it. It was painted by the booth owner. So I see this younger generation appreciating real art. Invest your time in your backyard, and you will succeed as an artist.
It's not just the art world that's falling part Dries, it's the whole damn world. The system hasn't been built to favor us, but, as you say, to keep us enslaved. You are bang on with your view of this crazy place we live in, and the scoundrels who run it.
Art is indeed a representation of the larger whole.
To quote my cousin who's in his last stages of ALS: Hi Henry! I like the picture of the painting that you sent me. I took a picture of it with my mind and when I close my eyes and I lay in bed I like to look at the picture I like the winding road and the colors keep up the good work. - art isn't dead - capitalism and art don't mesh. Art is alive. Don't make art for money, just stop it
that's a beautiful story!
But you're right too of course - people don't value high quality stuff. We should leave our valuable art offline. It's very depressing how culture is commodified in this ai hellscape
I disagree... art is not dying, at all. The world is in a state of change, as it always has been. I'm an artist and have found my outlet online. I was an artist's agent back in the day. It's about adapting. 🎉
I'm famous for using hyperbole's
@@jeanettecook1088 wonder how are you selling your art I am trying to figure it out?
Incorrect imo, it's about talent sure. PLUS well- protected hard-to-get without serious wealth, connections.
@ how do you find those people?
Lol.."adapting" sounds a lot like surviving to me.,,, but when it's said and done, art as a living, I wouldn't suggest it. I love art, I went the normal routes. I made money, SOMETIMES. But enough to live on, rarely.
I think people will start to wake up to the crap they're being fed. Most older people can't recognise AI art, but the younger generation is a lot more aware. As to 'real' art, the good stuff will go down in history while the bad stuff gets painted over, restorers use for practice etc. Quality always shines through eventually. There are old masters whose painting are admired whose name we don't know. We have the imagination, the purpose, the reasons to make art, AI doesn't, which is why it's crap.
Didn't we thought that people would wake up in the 16th century as well.... Did they really woke up?
Great performance, Dries! Bravo! 🏆
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I’m old enough to see major and subtle changes in the art world. Yes, art is dying, and it’s also being reborn. New technology, ideas, politics, religious shifts, free speech, taboo, spite, mockery, etc. are all part of the transition. The next best thing comes and goes so quickly. People want to make a buck, impress their friends, feel good about themselves, and maybe leave a mark on the world.
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I would love to be able to paint like John Singer Sargent because I think his technique is fantastic. No other reason than just to have that skill level and way of perceiving figures. His art never died, although John passed in 1925.
Beautiful comment Sargent was indeed something.
This happens with every advancement in tech. When photography became a thing people said art is dead. Especially with it being all anyone talked about early on. But now it's part of art in it's own genre.
The same with phones getting better with filters and everyone can post art now.
Then the luddites rise up and try to stop it. They fail, and everything goes back to normal again.
History has it's cycles for sure
Early photographic practices were often monopolized by those with the resources to afford costly equipment and chemicals, creating a clear divide between professional and amateur photographers. The rise of photography was harnessed by those maintaining the status quo to shift traditional art into institutional and academic settings, where it could be controlled, classified, and commodified.
In its early days, photography held a sense of magic and alchemy. Photographers using processes like daguerreotypes or wet plate collodion treated their craft as a near-mystical endeavor. However, as technology advanced, this hands-on craftsmanship gave way to more mechanical and automated methods, stripping much of the mystery from the medium.
Some early photographic techniques-such as photograms, cyanotypes, and autochromes-faded into obscurity, replaced by more commercially viable methods like film and, later, digital photography. This transition not only changed the medium but also contributed to a broader artistic shift. The decline of realism as a dominant movement made room for the rise of abstraction and modernism.
One of the greatest casualties of this shift was the limners. Descended from itinerant guilds that had preserved sacred artistic knowledge since the creation of illuminated manuscripts, they were among the last to carry forward this tradition. Their delicate miniatures, often used in lockets or as keepsakes, were swiftly supplanted by early photographic prints like daguerreotypes.
Photography soon became a powerful tool for state propaganda and advertising, reinforcing existing power structures. Its perceived objectivity gave it a unique ability to shape public perception, making it a weapon of influence in the hands of those seeking to maintain control.
Only one group matters and they think they are superior. We can tell by the art they choose to put in these museum exhibits, that inside their little bubble there is no truth.
What group could you possibly be talking about... Hmmmm
I don't think colleges fail students on purpose. I think the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. An art professor often never had to make a struggling business work, so they don't necessarily know to tell their students that they need to take business classes to learn how to setup and manage their art business. Many teachers and professors don't know how the whole system works, so they don't know how to recommend the right path. It might be the burden of the younger generations to re-organization education so it is more useful. The education system is designed to educate people at particular IQs levels. And IQ levels often dictate what a person is capable of (at a maximum level). Creative arts have their own equivalent of IQ. Some artists learn and produce better art at a much faster rate. Most of life is a race to the middle, and the middle is mediocrity. Oddly enough, many people aren't even achieving the middle, at this point. The system has leaks.
Probably a bit of both going on, where it's partially just incompetence and partially by design
Quality is being replaced by an online community that has to supports your average quality art... if you can't succeed at networking, at attracting an online community, an online following you have no future...
We interact with a simulation of reality
Are you OK?
It's a all a joke as always
I don't see why we should think that the percentage of people affected by art is lower now than in the time of Caravaggio or Leonardo da Vinci.
In reality, it doesn't matter if millions of people prefer their portraits over any artwork.
Art will always have an impact on those who are in the right moment to appreciate it.
In my opinion, there is no relationship between the effort that the artist puts into the work and whether that work is considered art. It is not a matter of effort.
The tongue in cheek sass in this video is a "once in a generation" gold mine. LOVE IT
Oh that's very friendly, Thanks
I've said this before: Dries would make for one helluva character actor!
Art is far from dead; it is simply undergoing a transformation. We are witnessing a shift towards a more utilitarian approach.
The masses on their phones have never traditionally paid for art, and that hasn't changed. Art hasn't lost these individuals; it never had them as paying customers in the first place. Historically, only the affluent could afford art, while the rest found joy in crafts and DIY decorations.
I think today, art is evolving and expanding. The world has never been more visual. Artists are increasingly becoming designers. Instead of solely creating original art works, they are venturing into industrial design for all kinds of products sold both online and offline. The artists also create artistic presentations to enhance the appeal of these items to the masses. In this new era, art and design intertwine, bringing creativity to everyday objects and making the world a more visually engaging place.
Not at all, I could give you links of ten magnificent artists who live and create in our time, you've probably never heared of. This crap we have in expensive galeries serves for rich people to legalize their dirty money, just don't pay any attention on that.
You are right. I was a graphic designer. Apps alow people to generate any logo you want. Thus, I left the profession to survive. It is just beginning.
You got it, Dries... we in the west are born into slavery. The job is buying your freedom back from being born in the first place... just like some lucky slaves formerly did in the southern US south. Big money/living big with some imaginary freedom is slavery luck. Living as small as you can be happy with is true freedom. You can continue to dream and strive in your "small" existence - which actually presents greater opportunities to go big naturally! No matter... be Happy, be SMart!
It's hard to see art clearly from within the warped system of commodification and art education. Originally, all the arts belonged to shamans-magical beings who used them to share wisdom from other realms, teaching and healing their communities.
Over time, those in power enslaved and commodified art, severing its connection to magic. They reduced it to mere entertainment and self-glorification, ensuring it no longer threatened their authority or the status quo.
AI art is just the latest step in distancing artists from the creative spark that could disrupt this control.
They hate him because he speaks the truth!
Let's speak some truth!
Museums have been dead for a while. “Pinocchio’s painting with thier a$$”. LOL
The dark intro rants you make are funny.
Does seems like it from the visitor count indeed
I'll prefer to look at smartphone, if all "art" in the museum are "Modern art" - bunch of blobs/lines on a wall, or taped banana.
Today's normal art is living online, supported by Patreon.
Even the pretty woman images are being replaced by a.i. images 😅
hahaha
If art dies, humanity dies.
It has long been clear to me, since I was very little, that the world is BS. Art is one of the few redeeming qualities of it. Very sad to see it dying. But, here is the thing, you can take away art from the collective value system, but you cannot take it from mine. Everything else around me can rot, but there is a place in my heart, that is reserved for beauty and value and that will stay pure forever, even if everyone else forgets about it. Even if it no longer exists in the world.
I will leave you with Ballad of Serenity lyrics:
Take My Love, Take My Land
Take Me Where I Cannot Stand
I Don't Care, I'm Still Free
You Can't Take The Sky From Me
Take Me Out To The Black
Tell Them I Ain't Comin' Back
Burn The Land And Boil The Sea
You Can't Take The Sky From Me
There's No Place I Can Be
Since I Found Serenity
But You Can't Take The Sky From Me...
Your message is irresistible. I accept it. Thanks.
You're most welcome
This is brutal and funny as hell. I'm often surprised anyone buys anything in this saturated market and the copy paste way everyone decorates their houses with cheap prints. As you point out Art Thots seem to have taken over social media as well. But some people still sell stuff - not sure how much for though.
Theres a difference between art and the "art institutions"
You made some good points here, I might write down a few and add my thoughts in a future video, thanks for sharing this! The art world, well the "pay millions for shit to dodge taxes" part of it, that needs exposing, not that it's going to do much, but at least we can bring more awareness to it.
I'm guilty for creating some of the best looking realistic and landscape art, all for the purposes of having it all sit in my closet for 2 years, because I was dumb enough to believe someone when they made a "promise", I won't get into it, I could go on and on about it! Anyways, I realised that there's only one way for us small artists to go - LOCAL MARKETS!!
The way I see it, there's no point in trying to strike it lucky in the art world now, especially after that stupid banana debacle, the golden age is gone! Small artists have a better chance at their local Saturday market or small gallery that accepts all kinds of work with no mafia connections required, those big lavish places will require connections, I've been told a LOT is needed too! Small and local is the best option for artists that still enjoy creating their passion on canvas.
And for those that can teach, there's that option too, instead of trying to sell our art, teach it! Pass our talent to the next lot of people so they can pass it to the future generations. Bob Ross' talent is still being passed on and taught to this day!
Good luck with the vid Damos
Art died long ago and Andy Warhol killed it with a soup can.
Beautiful statement!
Somebody disagreeing with, or being ironic about your worldview does not kill it :)
Of course, an artist wants to be good enough to win the prayers of people who understand art, and ideally make a living from so they can spend more time making art and live comfortably. It's sad that Art is being automated by machines and pirated through computers, and unethical people will always take advantage of it. I think the messages that art needs to be done because you love art. Art should be bought because you love art. It's unfortunate that some people only buy art as an investment, just that it's sad that some people make art only to make a living. We have to focus on art for art sake, and create it because that's who we are.
I've never "made art." In fact, I have no idea what "art" is. I've made over-the-sofa stuff for decoration that matches the mood and color scheme of the buyer's room. Some of it is very modestly interesting, a lot is crap. But I recognize this: I have no illusions. Who in their right mind would buy and display Soutine's "A Barn Interior with a Slaughtered Pig, Children Playing Beyond" on their living room wall? I will never paint like Sorolla because I'm not Sorolla, but I will paint nontaxing local scenes that actually sell (sometimes) and ignore the "art world" because it is irrelevant. I have no need to paint fatuous scenes to satisfy the Catholic Church or the French Academy and display my technical mastery of the craft of painting. My theory of "art" is simply this: do you like it, will you buy it, then pay me.
Finally, my man! 8:31
The most honest video you've ever done and you have me laughing out loud because I relate to every word you've said. And I'm educated in the topic from firsthand experience for decades and I concur with what you are explaining to everyone here.
Thank you for the honesty! I'm gonna continue watching and continue laughing my ass off like emperor Nero and his violin as the whole thing comes crashing down in flames.
Why do people think those books were written in the 90s? The end of art, and after the end of art and similar titles. Arthur Donto knew exactly what he was talking about.
Haven't read any of those books. Which one would you recommend?
I will create weather anyone buys or not, the world has turned into shit and its the only thing that brings me joy these days
Well I still believe handmade art is still in demand, call me Old-Fashion but even if I don't make it, at least my cause is real to me a worth pursuing, so I'll stay with no matter how screwed this world is, someone has to stand up for what they believe. 😆
Helps if you proof read it before hit Enter...
The process of creating is healing, is how we become our truest highest self...it is how we come to know ourselves...it is how we remember who we are...but trying to create to please others is indeed a losing race to the bottom.
So you paint for yourself and store your "art" in the attic because no one wants it. Are you healed? Did you become your "highest self"? That is psychotherapy, not art. But If it works for you, go for it. Just don't expect anyone else to be interested, much less pay for i
“Look, Pinocchio “ 👃🖌️😂
This was great. I felt this.
Funny I don't get inspiration from the majority of UA-cam great art great movies great music greatness in general inspires educate and entertains and I put my money up and support
Not everyone is like you Justin
When there’s a shitshow you can either enjoy the shit or the show.
there’s money in the show
Thanks I'm gonna go take the LONG nap now! Lol I'm a painter but also a musician and this message is very applicable in that industry as well. It's depressing. I might get beat up for saying this but, I feel like taking the bullshit "slave" job to pay the bills and then making art without worrying about making it a way of sustaining yourself is not a bad way to be able to enjoy making art. If the keys to making it as an artist are: being a musician like jelly roll or, being an artist like banana man or, being born into a rich family then what fulfillment are we really getting? Other than ego boosts of course.. being able to live off of any true art is extraordinary. And probably always has been.
It takes a lot of guts to make something from the heart. Here is a toast🍷 to all who toil away.
Art will never die
Luckily I can afford to produce my art the way I want, regardless if anyone else likes it. Also I use photography as my art expressions.
There is a certain art to mediocrity. I hate it, but it's true. There's also a perverted discipline to ease.
You speak from the heart.
Thank you. It really feels like that the world is falling apart from my Western perspective.
It's an entertainment-world and I can follow your views and your perceptions. Let's see where we are heading to. For me HOPE gives me power and strength. All the best to you ❤
The world needs a reset❤
Write it all down in a book, tell the story about how it all went. 100 years from now they'll call you a visionary genius. It's all over. Agree 💯.
Visionary genius let's go!
OMG you are 100% correct.
just here for the hair.
Good one bud!
Glad you enjoyed it
We're going away, and perhaps it's not that great a loss. Art was really our claim to fame, and if that's now out the window, the reason for our existence is getting really problematic 😏
Now that everyone has an iPhone the art of photography has been destroyed. Everyone now believes that they are a photographer because they took a pic of their dog at Niagara Falls. And everyone encourages them telling them how much they love the pic of their dog standing in front of Niagara Falls. Drive me mad.
Absolutely!
It is worth pursuing great work and great art because during the endeavour, you are praying to God. And the final work, marked my competence or lack thereof, is an expression of the quality of your prayer (call it talent if you like). Prayer - to a God; to an infinite; to whatever your idea of transcendence is; to whatever Walt Whitman, Van Gough, Neil Adams, and countless others strived for - is marked by whatever you consider "quality." Quality per-se, is not something you will see addressed by those in the 'art world' or on UA-cam or in politics (your video being an exception). Certainly, not in the world of tech where I think we can safely say that the idea of transcendent human work is antithetical to their bitter and ruinous consideration of human endeavour. Nor even in the public at large: Multitudes! multitudes of people would stream past the occasional 'artist' and offer time, homage and money to the fraudulent spray painters of galaxies and planets while they shit out their crap with megaphones blaring on the streets of Las Ramblas in Barcelona (their techniques of course passed on in minutes to the next snake oil artist to keep the cash rolling in). It was ever thus. Everything you say addresses success within what passes for economics and public recognition but not the idea of transcendent quality and it was ever thus to a greater or lesser extent. It is unfair but true. Financially, it sucks, yes, but if you're not working to discover a greater truth about the 'world', and about yourself, then you're simply not working. Also, I'm sure you're aware the CIA pushed American abstract expressionism in the last century. Detach yourself and think honestly about quality not finance. And get your fucking hair cut.
I can see that you've strived for quality in your comment Chris. Lovely to read.
Haircut, never!
sorry ma man I"m drunk
hahaha
This is a quality conversation
I'm a painter who has a degree in cleaning pubs for cash 😅
Glad I downloaded the addon that allows to watch videos that 3 times the speed, because 2x was not fast enough to suffer through these mad ravings of an art doomer 😶 like I'm not asking for toxic positivity here, but giving everyone borderline depression and anxiety that they're a failure and will never amount to anything isn't really what I would call a good sales pitch... But you do you, if it works, it works.
hahahaha
so now what
Didn't I shared the solution at the end of the video? Normally I do that.
@@driesketels I could't find the link to the pdf!
Did I promise a PDF in this one? Okay, didn't know that. I'll check the video to see which one and add it in 10 minutes.
@@driesketels 18:05 hahah
You want kids to become adults who are interested in art and buy art?...start teaching kids art. Schools stopped teaching art and THIS is the real reason they are no longer interested.
Powerful observation! There is a massive brainwash going on in the schools for sure!
This is sad. Art is not something created to be admired or needs to be looked at and appreciated 24 hours a day. Art is not created to worry if people like it. We only make it because it needs to be said, or created or vented or expressed. It has to come out of us. That's it. We only hang it in museums so others can also look ad admire and know what you were going through and how it's helping them. That's is. Let people look at their phones, it's just another version of art. None is better or worse than the other. Because it's not created to be judged, or loved, or hated, or admired, or talked about, it's just created because it has to be. Art is not dead, it's fine it's here it's all around. Love it, it's all around in everything stop being a hater and you'll see. Stop YOUR hate and judgment.
3 minutes in and I can't take any more. You sound like someone who got into painting just to sell painting, just be a broker. So judgmental, just complaining all the time, who cares if people only like ai Art or whatever, why do you care, just do your art. Just do yours and don't worry about other. 7 billion ways to make art out there and why waste your time complaining about a few who like it a way that you don't listening to how you speak and talk about art. I don't think you know what it is. Amd you have some physological things to work out.
its your gift share it!!!!!!!
Art has always been up it's own arse - well at least for 40 years plus. Just go fishing instead. It's better 🤣👍
hahaha
All these rich people you want to sell your art to have lost their souls A VERY LONG TIME AGO, and they want your soul for LUNCH!!!
Be careful who you sell your... soul to.
Have been thinking lately about the whole concept of 'souls'. Do you have a particular event or time in mind where souls where consumed?
bring back Francis bacon from the dead! I will pay for it!
Question authority 💯❤
You are not wrong, but yout hair says something considerable; with respect.
❤
Oi
sad
Look at the bright side
@@driesketels what is that? I am 56 and have avoided the tic toc shit...
Do you think robots, can not paint spots? They can. BLAHAHAAAAAAAAAA
Nobody cares about nose painting anymore?!
Did you say tr**ny at the beginning? What does that have to do with anything?
It's a hilarious joke... Some people are dying out laughing on the ground as we speak. Let's appreciate comedy Josh.
You obviously did not read my book, and your venting is boring. Could not get through a minute of it.
thanks for letting us know hahaha
Be a master PHone ARTist
A phartist advertiser_ influencer
What a load of bull. Only thing dying is your bank account. I now artists with a next to nothing social media following who make 6 figures a year. Selling every painting that they make, but unlike you they make eye candy and top notch work.
hahahaha
oh shut up you have a course to sell and you make no meaningful art of your own. this argument would have legs to stand on if you actually were part of the art community and posted what was actually going on.
hahahahah
Holy transphobia?? Wtf was that opening bit? Did I hear you right?!?! Making a flipant joke that throws some trans people who opt to have surgery under the bust? Using a slur? Maybe it was a 30 second bit and you change right after I stopped watching, but I don't want to watch your video anymore and am unsubbing. Bye. Do better.
hahaha, thanks for letting us know.
Please continue to RANT! The more you rant and spew half truths (lies), the more you convince artists to quit and I will have no competition as an Artist. You're doing me a great service. Keep it up!