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Leon

@Nezchan 1000%. The word content means fungible filler. It’s a dangerous dehumanising exonym calculated to commodify culture because commodities are the only thing these undead execs can comprehend.

I appreciate artists may feel like impostors claiming they are artists but let me say there have been some truly awful artists that were still artists. The title is no guarantee of quality, just humanity, and you are entitled and allowed and required to use it.

10 Mar 2023 at 9:06 | Wall-to-wall | Open on peoplemaking.games
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Morgan

@leon @Nezchan plus art is subjective and there's really no objectively bad art. Specific people not liking it, or it not being popular, doesn't mean it's necessarily bad

15 Jul 2023 at 5:14 | Open on disabled.social
Leon

@raphaelmorgan @Nezchan

Taste is certainly the most subjective! But I’ve come to understand and appreciate art as a communication and expressive medium for the otherwise inexpressible. From that perspective we can certainly judge art at how well it communicates, as much as we can judge other transmitters!

So when I say bad art I’m not talking about unpopular or unpleasant but *unaffecting*. When I make art that doesn’t say anything, even to me, that’s bad art, in the same way that if I can’t hear a voice on a call that’s a bad connection.

It’s totally possible to make art that’s pleasant, popular, skilful, crafty, cultural, intelligent, valuable, beautiful and still not say anything, still not good art.

But that’s just how I think about it, I think every artist has their own definition for what is insufficient which is valid and crucial.

Which is what I was getting at here, if one feels one makes “bad art”, by whatever definition you use, they are most assuredly still an artist making art.

@raphaelmorgan @Nezchan

Taste is certainly the most subjective! But I’ve come to understand and appreciate art as a communication and expressive medium for the otherwise inexpressible. From that perspective we can certainly judge art at how well it communicates, as much as we can judge other transmitters!

15 Jul 2023 at 5:38 | Open on peoplemaking.games
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