Art is an asshole

Daphnee 2022-03-22 08:01:02


The secret is just that. I didn't pay attention to who the director and actor were, but damn, so ironic.
At the beginning of the movie, all kinds of art freshmen enter the school, dressed in fancy clothes, as if a juvenile mental hospital has opened.

welcome home~!

My childhood and school experiences made me feel that adults in suits are not good things when I was young, haha, it's also quite ridiculous. I've been asked even the weird questions that the male protagonist is asked at a family reunion, but maybe it's relatives who ask their kids to copy who's drawn horses to "learn" to draw... the movie as a whole though There's some exaggeration but overall it's realistic.

The best thing the actor said in this movie is, what is human nature, human nature is a fucking asshole, a bunch of bullshit. In the movie, most of what the students do is bragging. The most important thing about a painting is to see how you blow it. The male protagonist's painting is indeed a little old-fashioned, but looking at the other students, the undercover police officer accidentally became a A rising star who is highly regarded by all people, the fat roommate's hesitant object is actually his grandfather, and a group of classmates who are always excited with excess hormone secretion. You have to admit that this is also art, satirical art.

But why can't the police be painters? Why can't grandpa direct grandson's movies? Why can't students vent their excitement?

The answer is also given in the movie. This expresses human nature. The irony is here. Since artistic ideas express human nature, how can there be advantages and disadvantages? As this film expresses, all these arts are nothing but tools for you to express your desires, status, women, money. So simple. Does the hero love art? Love, but he prefers to be affirmed by others, and this "affirmation" will bring him status, reputation, and even love. Note that this "affirmation" does not seem to violate art itself at all, so what are we doing this for?

As for the movie itself, it's not that he is so good, but in our art, where human nature is suppressed, it is estimated that few people really understand it.

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  • Eno: It has the singularity of outsider art,though the conscious rejection of spatial dynamics could only come from an intimacy with the conventions of picture-making.

    Jerome: Are you kidding me?

  • Eno: The history of art is largely about the implementation of masculinity.That is such bullshit.Part of some Darwinian imperative. Most artists become artists because they have no way to attract a mate. I hardly think I'm the first to point out that the vast preponderance of artists are, shall we say physiologically deficient in some way.