~cari

You know what i'm sick of?

Artists.
I read some blogs to see who the "new" and "hip" artists are, and what do I find? Copies. "Digital collage" and such "artists"

And I use the term ARTIST when referring to them very loosely.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying MY art is very original (it was something I did as a teenager to occupy my time and make friends with like-minded people) but some of the stuff out there now?

I find a girl on flickr, taking photos of Super Dollfies and drawing fake hair/clothes on them, then adding the cheap wood texture like that other girl who's ethereal female paintings are so popular right now.
What did she REALLY do to create that?
She didn't even take the photo of the doll she used, just took it from somewhere.
She gets all this attention for her "art" people saying "That is so beautiful!" "I love this!" when what kind of skill did that really take to create? I'm artistic, I could take a photo that I TOOK of one of MY DOLLS and do the exact same thing! (and it would be better because I "owned" the photograph I used to make it.) But I would still be using someone else's beautiful sculpting, or face-painting to create "my art"

My mom is an artist.
She was at a show over the weekend where some guy won the $10,000 best in show prize.
I do a quick google on him to see if he as a website where I could get a better idea of his work- and what do I find?
an article titled "white hack rips off southern black?" talking about how he stole another southerners style of painting.


Is there ANY originality in the world anymore?
It seems like someone who is talented, with a genuine spark, people gravitate to and create a million spin-offs of their work, instead of taking inspiration from it, and creating their own.


I saw it happening a long time ago in the online artist community- people tracing other's work to gain approval.
It's just gotten so out of hand.


No one is original anymore.