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Leave the art to actual artists. The people who create junk Madonnas and cat videos and whatnot are artists every bit as much as the first person who scratched

Leave the art to actual artists. The people who create junk Madonnas and cat videos and whatnot are artists every bit as much as the first person who scratched stick figures on a cave wall or the masters whose works reside in museums and galleries around the world. They might be novices. They might be amateurs. They might not create something you like. But they are still "actual" artists.

sandworm101 11y ago
Fine. I'll correct my words. Leave costly and expensive art to the good artists. Get a paints set. Buy a camera. Leave the million-dollar paintbrushes to those non-novice artists able to create something interesting.
- trcollinson 11y ago
  In the words of Mel Brooks in the History of the World Part 1: And here, in a cave, about 2 million years ago, the first artist was born. And, of course, with the birth of the artist, came the inevitable after birth... The critic. Lest I get down voted for bringing humor to a comment on Hacker News, I will make the further point. Are your comments meant to be art criticism? Ok. They should be judged as art criticism. You say it's "another madonna" as if all madonna's are junk art. Many of the madonna's are the most studied religious iconography and artistic masterpieces of all time. Almost all of the most renowned artists in history have completed a madonna. Who is to say it has been done to death in every medium? Are you attempting to say that no artist can come along and make a new masterpiece madonna? And frankly, you'll have to argue much harder to make people believe that the madonna has been done to death in every medium, particularly MR images. As for your argument that million-dollar paintbrushes should be left to non-novice artists to create something interesting. We create art with what we have on hand. This person happens to have a 3 tesla MRI machine. Why shouldn't they use it? If another artist would like to come along and use it, they can work with the university that holds it to use it. What a horrible argument to say that because they are a novice they should not be allowed to use such a beautiful tool for their own artistic enjoyment.

sandworm101 11y ago

Fine. I'll correct my words. Leave costly and expensive art to the good artists. Get a paints set. Buy a camera. Leave the million-dollar paintbrushes to those non-novice artists able to create something interesting.

trcollinson 11y ago
In the words of Mel Brooks in the History of the World Part 1: And here, in a cave, about 2 million years ago, the first artist was born. And, of course, with the birth of the artist, came the inevitable after birth... The critic. Lest I get down voted for bringing humor to a comment on Hacker News, I will make the further point. Are your comments meant to be art criticism? Ok. They should be judged as art criticism. You say it's "another madonna" as if all madonna's are junk art. Many of the madonna's are the most studied religious iconography and artistic masterpieces of all time. Almost all of the most renowned artists in history have completed a madonna. Who is to say it has been done to death in every medium? Are you attempting to say that no artist can come along and make a new masterpiece madonna? And frankly, you'll have to argue much harder to make people believe that the madonna has been done to death in every medium, particularly MR images. As for your argument that million-dollar paintbrushes should be left to non-novice artists to create something interesting. We create art with what we have on hand. This person happens to have a 3 tesla MRI machine. Why shouldn't they use it? If another artist would like to come along and use it, they can work with the university that holds it to use it. What a horrible argument to say that because they are a novice they should not be allowed to use such a beautiful tool for their own artistic enjoyment.