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My gripe with abstract art is a lot of artists settle on one gimmick. Mondrian? Space subdivided by lines. Pollock? Paint drips. It's the same as the Youtuber c

My gripe with abstract art is a lot of artists settle on one gimmick. Mondrian? Space subdivided by lines. Pollock? Paint drips. It's the same as the Youtuber criticism: they have two years of ideas, then try to make a career out of it.

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renewiltord 4y ago
Perhaps it's just hard to come up with more. But you do see the same effect on Twitter. Guy will be normal, then get popular for one tweet, and then spend the rest of his life trying to pander to that audience.
jnwatson 4y ago
By pure coincidence, I just visited Kunstmuseum today in The Hague that has a large Mandria(a)n exhibit, so the following is fresh on the mind. It took Mandria(a)n 30 years of professional painting to arrive at his spaces and lines. He was already in his 50s by that time, and it ended up being enormously popular and influential. Artists have to eat too. Why fix something that isn't broken? At the same museum they had a gallery of Josef Albers. He painted concentric squares of different colors for the last 26 years of his life.
- brnt 4y ago
  * Mondriaan
listenallyall 4y ago
A lot of bands barely have enough quality songs to fill a single side of a record, but they've managed to spread it out to a 4-album deal, a Best Of, and a comeback tour two decades later.
- dehrmann 4y ago
  And they hate every day of it. I saw someone do a set, and when someone asked to hear one of his band's popular songs, he said "I have to play that 37 times this summer. I'm not playing it here."
keiferski 4y ago
This is almost entirely because of the art market and not because of the artist themselves. Few artists want to repeat the same thing repeatedly for decades.
- mitchdoogle 4y ago
  I think artists are just happy if they can make a living. If it becomes lucrative to do the same kind of work repeatedly, I think most artist will jump at the chance because it beats working at an office 9-5 every day

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renewiltord 4y ago

Perhaps it's just hard to come up with more. But you do see the same effect on Twitter. Guy will be normal, then get popular for one tweet, and then spend the rest of his life trying to pander to that audience.

jnwatson 4y ago

By pure coincidence, I just visited Kunstmuseum today in The Hague that has a large Mandria(a)n exhibit, so the following is fresh on the mind. It took Mandria(a)n 30 years of professional painting to arrive at his spaces and lines. He was already in his 50s by that time, and it ended up being enormously popular and influential. Artists have to eat too. Why fix something that isn't broken? At the same museum they had a gallery of Josef Albers. He painted concentric squares of different colors for the last 26 years of his life.

brnt 4y ago
* Mondriaan

listenallyall 4y ago

A lot of bands barely have enough quality songs to fill a single side of a record, but they've managed to spread it out to a 4-album deal, a Best Of, and a comeback tour two decades later.

dehrmann 4y ago
And they hate every day of it. I saw someone do a set, and when someone asked to hear one of his band's popular songs, he said "I have to play that 37 times this summer. I'm not playing it here."

keiferski 4y ago

This is almost entirely because of the art market and not because of the artist themselves. Few artists want to repeat the same thing repeatedly for decades.

mitchdoogle 4y ago
I think artists are just happy if they can make a living. If it becomes lucrative to do the same kind of work repeatedly, I think most artist will jump at the chance because it beats working at an office 9-5 every day