im sick of unmuting an animal video expecting to hear the sounds that it is very clearly making and being greeted with the shittiest music ive ever heard
Currently obsessed with the fact that when Artemis Fowl had amnesia and thought he and Holly were going to die he pretended to remember Holly so that in her last moments she would feel like she was with a friend and how even though he was annoyed by the psychiatrist gnome he (unprompted) drew up a plan to fix the guy’s hip problem and how he finally calls his mother “Mum” and how he couldn’t lie to Holly for more than a day and how he made a stuffed animal for his baby brother that praises the kid’s science experiments and how Artemis Fowl went from caring about no one but himself to refusing to let anyone die on his watch and meeting the very idea with “unacceptable”.
This is the piece I made for Eoin Colfer last week. I had only a short time to finish it, but I like how it turned out: I like the texture of ballpoint pen.
Thank you all for your suggestions of what to draw! I ultimately went with @karlyanalora’s suggestion of a book scene I enjoy, as well as many of you suggesting I draw Holly.
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.
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