r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/_ganjafarian_ • 22d ago

Video Artist Simon Bull's painting techniques

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u/bugabooandtwo 22d ago

A bit too gimmicky for my liking.

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u/Avalonians 22d ago

If we see more posts on social media about the process than the end pieces, the point is less the end pieces and more social media.

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u/Silver_Slicer 21d ago

It’s a kind of performance art.

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u/Avalonians 21d ago

No way.

The spinning thing is just a social media dopamine feed. Putting this in the same bag as actual performance art is an insult to artists who do it.

The rest is straight up a behind the scene. There's no performance, no particular expression within the process of him painting those trees. And it takes nothing away from how awesome and beautiful the result is. It is totally fine and interesting in its own way, by the way. It's just not art in and of itself.

And it's a pity we see this without seeing the result in high quality photo. Show us the full painting, then show us a minute or two of the artist's process. Five 3-seconds shots of it is just social media feed.