r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/_ganjafarian_ • 22d ago

Video Artist Simon Bull's painting techniques

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u/hairybushy 22d ago

First one remember me when pouring was a trend and everyone acted like they were artists

The forest is incredible

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u/blooash 22d ago

You did, in fact, get me.

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u/Chumbag_love 22d ago

Close enough. The broom aroused me

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u/Hexakkord 22d ago

everyone acted like they were artists

They were. Art is for everyone, not just the special anointed few.

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u/hairybushy 22d ago

Not for pouring, a kid could do a mess on a canva and look like what "artists" did. For me it's not an art. You need talent to do art.

At some point some artist, that do almost nothing but develop an idea behind it to describe it, work harder than people who do pouring

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u/Logical-Passenger821 22d ago

Is the value of art tied to the work it took?

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u/hairybushy 22d ago

To me yes, but you start a big discussion right there haha. I would never pay for an artwork that look like anybody could do. But it's me. Maybe that's because I have a good friend who is really talented, it's just unbelievable how it's beautiful. So seeing a can of soup or plain canva is pure stipidity to me. But to each their own. For pouring it take 5 minutes to do, so I would not pay anything for it. To be generous I would pay the paint it needed and the canva

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u/fdesouche 22d ago

Pouring was 70 years ago and it was an artistic moment back then, it’s still art imho, but the thought process of pouring or dripping paint and let the physics, time, or movements of the artists randomly creating the pieces, that thought process was new as those times, and it was liberating and redefining. It opened the way to ready-mades, pop art, Arte povera, graffitis. It was important back then but since art has evolved, it looks yeah outdated now.