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Never been an art fan in my life. This street art makes me emotional (feddit.dk)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/funny@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 49 points 7 months ago (9 children)

How can you not be an art fan? Do you like only excel spreadsheets?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    You'd be surprised how boring some human minds are. I recently heard someone say "I don't care for art unless it means something". As if totally ignorant to the fact that it's nearly impossible to create a thing without it meaning something to the artist. I think this dude meant "if it doesn't mean something to me personally, and probably due to a religious overtone, it's worthless". Pretty sad and boring self-centered experience if you ask me.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Most of my art doesn't mean anything. I essentially run a procedural generation script like I'm a Minecraft server or a screensaver or something. The pieces that contain some meaning are usually limited to being visually pleasing or practically useful rather than having artistic meaning. The meaninglessness has made me very depressed for most of my life, but I've been making some progress recently on not giving a shit. (Shout-out to Erasmus from the Dune prequels. I feel your pain, buddy.)

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    And that's cool too. I mean "being visually pleasing" has a meaning in a sense too. It makes you feel a certain way, and that feeling can be different for every viewer. Sure that probably sounds "woo woo" or something but a thing that pleases you means something to you. Also just the act of creation can be very therapeutic and that's meaningful in its own way too. I wish you luck with your depression. That one has been a bitch for me as well. In fact I never feel like I have time to make art, but when I do it feels great.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I'm not a visual art fan. When I read manga I pay way more attention to the text than the art. Visual art is innocuous to me, it's just there. Like, if you knew someone in college who had a bunch of movie posters in their room, after you've been in their room a few times you don't even notice any more? It's like that from the start with all static visual art (paintings/statues/pictures etc) for me.

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