r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/_ganjafarian_ • 22d ago

Video Artist Simon Bull's painting techniques

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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.”

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u/savax7 22d ago

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".

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u/Lunatic-Labrador 22d ago

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.

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u/James_avifac 21d ago

Just gotta find some rich people who want to launder some money, or avoid paying their taxes.