no one is original
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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.
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And unfortunately, that's what's been happening to me for ages.
Yours doesn't fall under that category
Art isn't about acceptance- and a lot of people use it as that.
Good : a sculptor asks and artist if he/she can sculpt one of their drawings . and letting people know that it is made based off a drawing from the other artist.
Bad : a sculptor sculpts a drawing with out permission or letting people know that the original character is not thier own!
the art communtiy infuriates me sometimes with it's constant ripping off of other people's ideas and work. What pisses me off the most is the peopple who say they 'reference' other people's work. Like hell do they. It's a rip, they're just to shit scared of the anger of the community to call a spade a spade and add their shitty little disclaimer. I try really hard to do my own thing and when people get recognition for work that i could pull out of my ass it annoys the hell out of me.
but here's to the original kids who plod on producing work that may not be perfect, but at least theirs....
(End rant mode)
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I even think being a sculptor and sculpting something inspired by a painting or photograph is better than what I'm talking about online.
I'm talking about people actually using other peoples work in "their own" whether it be a photograph, or tracing someone's drawing.
Even tracing/referencing is OK, as long as credit is given. I mean, to a point that is how you learn. I traced back when I first started, to get the feel of drawing. And it helped a lot! I just wasn't saying it was a beautiful work of art I created- it was just practice.
It is really sick how rampant it's gotten in the online art communities.
I've seen a LOT of people ripping off super dollfie looks lately in various "digital paintings" and it makes me sick. Half the people don't know anything about them and think the "artist" created it on their own which is a total lie.
I feel like if you strip all of that out of their work you're left with some really sub-standard "art" because they use stuff like that as the foundation, instead of real talent or originality.
It's not fun to copy or edit other's works, post it up here or wherever for the sake of getting attention, then claiming you made it or that you used a ton of skill to create it. That's like a hollow victory or something. Agreed, that's not what art is about.
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