Being Artistic Does NOT Make You Smart...
...in fact, if that's all you do, it just means that you haven't found any realistic way to impact humanity, and are frustrated by that, therefore you turn to artistic expression to quell your own feelings of inadequacy.
Don't get me wrong, art (of most forms) is an exceedingly important and satisfying part of humanity, and some artists throughout history have been unmitigated rascals, while others have been real champions of purpose and reason (as can be said of people in any profession). If you love doing some form of art, that is fantastic, and I salute you, but don't make that your only contribution to humanity, do something else that is also useful and do your art as a hobby, until you can prove that your art is providing more value than your day job, then you can become "an artist".
What has sparked my rant against artists? I recently read a statement by someone, who could only be classified as an artist, that was so unconscionably stupid, while honestly believing that they were being deep and intellectual, I simply could not contain my mirth, and had to share it.
What was the statement?
On the "Opaque:Dining in The Dark" website, if you go to the "Dining Room" link, you are taken to a completely black page, and if you roll your mouse around in there, some phrases will appear. One series of phrases goes like this:
"Once I feared the dark"
"But I learned the dark is never black"
"Just a deep, deep shade of red"
Why not pink or purple, or heliotrope? Hey art-fag! Any color can be deepened to black, black is merely the absence of light, in other words, no light is escaping from the black object, it has NO color.
Another art-fag comment from the Hall of Shame:
Standing outside the art building at Brigham Young University, a mountain nearby was on fire near the base, while I paused to consider that, an art student emerged from the art building and also paused to consider the fire. After a small period of time, he took a self-superior breath of air and said in a matter-of-fact tone, "well, it's a good thing the fire is down there, because fire can't burn uphill."
That was over a decade ago and as you can see, I still chortle about that lamentable individual's rather deficient intellectual abilities.
Don't get me wrong, art (of most forms) is an exceedingly important and satisfying part of humanity, and some artists throughout history have been unmitigated rascals, while others have been real champions of purpose and reason (as can be said of people in any profession). If you love doing some form of art, that is fantastic, and I salute you, but don't make that your only contribution to humanity, do something else that is also useful and do your art as a hobby, until you can prove that your art is providing more value than your day job, then you can become "an artist".
What has sparked my rant against artists? I recently read a statement by someone, who could only be classified as an artist, that was so unconscionably stupid, while honestly believing that they were being deep and intellectual, I simply could not contain my mirth, and had to share it.
What was the statement?
On the "Opaque:Dining in The Dark" website, if you go to the "Dining Room" link, you are taken to a completely black page, and if you roll your mouse around in there, some phrases will appear. One series of phrases goes like this:
"Once I feared the dark"
"But I learned the dark is never black"
"Just a deep, deep shade of red"
Why not pink or purple, or heliotrope? Hey art-fag! Any color can be deepened to black, black is merely the absence of light, in other words, no light is escaping from the black object, it has NO color.
Another art-fag comment from the Hall of Shame:
Standing outside the art building at Brigham Young University, a mountain nearby was on fire near the base, while I paused to consider that, an art student emerged from the art building and also paused to consider the fire. After a small period of time, he took a self-superior breath of air and said in a matter-of-fact tone, "well, it's a good thing the fire is down there, because fire can't burn uphill."
That was over a decade ago and as you can see, I still chortle about that lamentable individual's rather deficient intellectual abilities.
posted by Anthony Barney @ 7/18/2008 11:21:00 AM
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1 Comments:
I remember that incident with the fire. If memory serves me, the building he emerged from was the HFAC. (H-something Fine Arts Center.)
Not to derail your article, but consider this: Do you really want idiots like the aforementioned fire expert trying to make a contribution? Do you really want to saddle someone with a co-worker (or boss!) like that?
Society might be less hindered with artists painting ducklings and waterfalls, than with them trying to 'help.'
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