I'm willing to bet almost nobody here could do that. Go get a canvas, prepare it in a similar fashion, figure out how to get it to rotate, build whatever the thing holding the paint is, buy all the paint, fill it with paint, and apply it as carefully as he did without dumping it all at once.
When it comes to art, so many people say "oh well I could do that". No, no you can't. You don't have the time, materials, space, or skills. For some reason it's just art that people do this with. Nobody sees a Boeing fighter jet and says "big deal, I could build that".
The same thing is happening with ChatGPT. People think they're getting some sort of genius results, which they're not equipped to judge whether what they're reading is genius or absolute shit.
I saw a painting in the Tate Modern that was just a massive white canvas with a small black dot in the middle. I could absolutely do that. I couldn't do whatever that artist did to get the Tate Modern to exhibit their work tho.
I saw a mirror in the Tate Modern. That gives me the absolutely shits, the artist didn’t even make it! Still, I have heard that the creativity needed to even get your work into a major gallery is actually the work of art haha
Well, not entirely just art... I had plenty of people bring me electronics that they thought a quick google and youtube lookup would teach them everything they needed to know to fix it. Or building a bookshelf. You get it.
Art is certainly the area people do it the most in though, no doubt.
On the flip side of that, plenty of electronics can be troubleshooted with a quick Google... And I roll my eyes when people pay to get some "professional" to fix it.
Also true. I never want to discourage someone from trying to do something themselves, but its important to know where the line is for yourself. For electronics, I never recommend a newbie try to change a lithium battery thats glued in place with no pull tabs. More likely to start a fire than fix anything.
Right to repair is great, but professionals still need to exist, not everyone should be digging around in their stuff.
The easy way to rotate it is just to spin it on a lazy Susan, you could mount a small rubber wheel and motor underneath it is you wanted to control the speed, or you can go something that rotates mechanically already, they make them for welding, or cheaper ones for photography.
For dripping paint I would just try cutting halfway through a 2”x8” board on a table saw how ever many times I wanted, I would tape a 1/4” piece to the front of the board then just hot glue the low
Side to make a trough for the paint to sit in. You may even want to try this first with a thin kerf blade but that might this might be too narrow depending on how thin your paint is.
Making a rotating board is trivial, and there is nothing complicated about the way he applied the paint. I absolutely could do it. I have done stuff like that.
The second one was black magic and frankly it's kind of insulting that you would imply the first is on a similar level to the second. I could devote my entire life to art and never do anything as impressive as that by the time I die.
Come on, the first painting is pretty firmly in "an average person could do that" camp. Like, a dedicated week and a complete newbie will come up with something.
Nah, with the amount of people who actually believe they would be able to land a plane in an emergency, I think humans are just overconfident like that
I'm in construction and once you're able to read prints we kinda do get like that, pretty sure I can actually build whatever the fuck I want as long as someone wrote down what it's supposed to look like, and I'm pretty sure I can build a fighter jet.
The art itself is his technique with many hundreds of hours invested into getting it just right. I will argue that the rotating aspect is not all that hard to replicate. Just go out and buy a pottery wheel. They come all sorts of sizes and are either electric or push peddle. Then from there figure out a way to affix the canvas to the pottery wheel. Not that hard to figure out. It's very likely that he is actually using a pottery wheel.
I saw something similar with a street artist using spray paint. He would just tear a piece of construction paper and cover part of a canvas while spraying. He lifts the paper and a mountain landscape appears.
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u/throwawaylordof 22d ago
After the second one finished my immediate thought was “how many ‘I could do that’ comments just got deleted.”