When you alnost can’t have anything but ‘minimalism’ (not sure if most of the things that you can get count as minimalist and not just extremely utilitarian) it kind of destroys the feeling.
(not sure if most of the things that you can get count as minimalist and not just extremely utilitarian)
Definitely utilitarian. Stuff that’s actually minimalist requires thoughtful design and precision construction and is therefore actually pretty fucking expensive.
Idk, I am not an artist or anything. I just look at stuff and like different things in different moments and settings, like everyone else.
I am just sick of the disrespect for art in general. I am not a good critic but I am good enough to acknowledge that art is not only made for me and my taste.
I mean yeah there is some art in pure utility if you like such things, but most modern consruction is very bland, there isn’t even cheap ‘unnecessary’ elements, no ornaments, zero decorative elements that were commonplace even after ww2.
The funny thing is there’s almost always this, “our society has forgotten how to make elegant art” cycle that people keep complaining about. Rejecting modernist art is an old practice.
There was a post about how the Nazis called their modern art “degenerate art” and they wanted a return to some weird traditional ideal they had.
People all over now complain about anything symbolic looking that isn’t dead obvious in what it represents, and that sort of modernism can be seen a hundred years ago too. You could take some 1920s art and put it in front of someone and ask if they like modern 2020s art and many would probably complain about the minimalism in some art deco.
The fact that some people reject it so much and think it’s too non traditional IMO is one of the most interesting and powerful aspects. It made a lot of people feel revulsion, and not because it’s done badly, but because it doesn’t conform to their traditional ideas of what art is. They don’t get it, they don’t want to get it, they don’t want to think about why it works, and don’t want to understand it. It kind of did something not a lot art manages if it gets that reaction out of people.
I hate that minimalist designs aren’t acknowledged as artistic.
In my opinion, it is no different than the ai idiots who think all art needs to be hyperrealistic; That good art is hyperrealistic.
When you alnost can’t have anything but ‘minimalism’ (not sure if most of the things that you can get count as minimalist and not just extremely utilitarian) it kind of destroys the feeling.
Definitely utilitarian. Stuff that’s actually minimalist requires thoughtful design and precision construction and is therefore actually pretty fucking expensive.
Idk, I am not an artist or anything. I just look at stuff and like different things in different moments and settings, like everyone else.
I am just sick of the disrespect for art in general. I am not a good critic but I am good enough to acknowledge that art is not only made for me and my taste.
I mean yeah there is some art in pure utility if you like such things, but most modern consruction is very bland, there isn’t even cheap ‘unnecessary’ elements, no ornaments, zero decorative elements that were commonplace even after ww2.
The funny thing is there’s almost always this, “our society has forgotten how to make elegant art” cycle that people keep complaining about. Rejecting modernist art is an old practice.
There was a post about how the Nazis called their modern art “degenerate art” and they wanted a return to some weird traditional ideal they had.
People all over now complain about anything symbolic looking that isn’t dead obvious in what it represents, and that sort of modernism can be seen a hundred years ago too. You could take some 1920s art and put it in front of someone and ask if they like modern 2020s art and many would probably complain about the minimalism in some art deco.
The fact that some people reject it so much and think it’s too non traditional IMO is one of the most interesting and powerful aspects. It made a lot of people feel revulsion, and not because it’s done badly, but because it doesn’t conform to their traditional ideas of what art is. They don’t get it, they don’t want to get it, they don’t want to think about why it works, and don’t want to understand it. It kind of did something not a lot art manages if it gets that reaction out of people.