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Music as wallpaper vs music as artistic paintings. We are fine with mass-producing wallpaper with machines. People buy this every day, no problem. We are not
by marcus_holmes 7mo ago
Music as wallpaper vs music as artistic paintings.
We are fine with mass-producing wallpaper with machines. People buy this every day, no problem.
We are not fine with mass-producing framed paintings that are "art".
Both hang on the wall as decoration. Essentially the same purpose. But we have very different feelings about them and hold them to very different standards.
Music is the same. We have muzak - background music that isn't supposed to be listened to, it's just wallpaper. I don't think many people object to this being machine-made in bulk. And then we have music that is art and is supposed to be listened to explicitly. We hold this to a higher standard and expect it to be the product of human creative urges.
- Ferret7446 7mo ago> We are not fine with mass-producing framed paintings that are "art". Uhh... Cheap, basically AI generated art for home decor definitely exists. > And then we have music that is art and is supposed to be listened to explicitly Just like how most people are not sommeliers, most people just listen to pop music "slop"
- TOMDM 7mo agoI have the sudden urge to frame some wallpaper.
- TiredOfLife 7mo ago> We are not fine with mass-producing framed paintings that are "art". China is full of factories where exactly this is being done and people are fine with this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15742507 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15742507
- aethertron 7mo agoSeems a bit silly, though. More economical to paint (or draw, or cut-and-paste, or whatever) one original, scan it, then print many copies.
- Nasrudith 7mo agoIt depends entirely upon who the "we" is in question. There has long been an aristocratic tantrum against affordable decoration in the art and architecture world, dating back to men's formal wear going mostly monochromatic as soon as colors became widely affordable instead of reserved for the gentry. There were similar ones against ornamentation with Brutalism (mixed with dadaist 'the world doesn't deserve art!' post WWI despair memes). The cynical would dismiss the whole distinction between mass produced and unique art as arbitrary. Or worse, just as a racket to create artificial scarcity, a social kabuki show to create the pretension of high culture, or for the purpose of some sort of criminal scheme like money laundering.
- joshoink 7mo agoEven furniture music is art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furniture_music https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furniture_music
- gizajob 7mo agoRelevant Basquiat quote: “Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.”
- yellowapple 7mo ago> We are not fine with mass-producing framed paintings that are "art". Sure “we” are; we just call them “prints” or “posters” instead of ”paintings”.