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Kinda the point of the two articles.
by Affric 3y ago
Kinda the point of the two articles.
- gizajob 3y agoI got it. The art is technically very well executed, but it’s nevertheless a hyper realistic take of an extremely bland instagram-type photo, again and again, which makes sense why it would be popular on instagram, and amongst the blandified youth with little taste and little knowledge of art history. Not really surprising.
- defrost 3y agoThey're just the images you're talking about. The article here and the earlier article that triggered the social media kickback both assert that "the art" includes both the images and the staging and presentation on social media. Much like <insert other famous artist> who made themselves an essential intertwined part of the <other famous artist> art show.
- gizajob 3y agoHe doesn’t need to be crying about not getting gallery representation then. He could also think about the aboriginal artists in Australia, who live totally offline and in the desert 300 miles away from the middle of nowhere, who still nevertheless manage to get gallery representation. Will be interesting to see what he’s producing in 5-10 years time.
- Affric 3y agoThe point of the original review is actually that it's his tik tok fame and video format that is what creates the audience and not the art itself. His fans have little interest in the actual art, it's the vicarious and voyeuristic aspect that his fortune is built off, the art is incidental. Yeah, the painting is boring, safe, well trodden material (and he's not good at hands!) but the phenomenon is social media. The hype machine. The parasocial relationships.
- et-al 3y ago> it's the vicarious and voyeuristic aspect that his fortune is built off, the art is incidental Seems like Rodriguez is more of a performance artist.
- esperent 3y agoMany extremely famous artists are also performance artists. Dali, Picasso, Warhol, Hirst, Banksy. All of them made some kind of performance to go alongside the art, whether it's crazy personality, or controversy, or nobody knowing what you look like, it's a performance. You need to get people talking about you and the art will only get you so far, in many cases. Great as, for example, Dali's art is, would he have been as famous without the mustache and pet anteater? Of course there's plenty of counterexamples where the art alone was enough for fame. Esther and Van Gogh come to mind.
- gilleain 3y agoRight, but Picasso's performance was of _himself_ alongside his art. This guy is making a performance out of the act of making the art, and then people's real-time reaction to that art.
- gizajob 3y agoYet his performance is identical to that performed by countless other people on TikTok. Anti-performance and anti-art for the age of the anti-social.