Wow, that's a new idea! Wish I'd thought of it!

(Yes, that's sarcasm, and juvenile crap like this is why I think most art is garbage).

How can you not be an art fan? Do you like only excel spreadsheets?

I suspect that they mean specifically paintings, rather than all art.

Still quite a bit weird, but not as bizarre as your interpretation would suggest 🤷🏻

I never "got" dance, ballet, neoclassical, modern--that sort of dance. I'd watch a video once in a while, and while impressive athletically, I never connected with it emotionally. Until I saw this. I don't know what's different. But, now I get it, at least some of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY9PDSfEjUk

Pow that opinion goes right in the bin.

A well-made axe is art. A beautifully designed house is art. A surgeon replacing your wife's liver is art. An wide reciever stretching past the line, his fingertips trapping the ball while dragging a foot inbounds for a win in overtime - still art.

It's all art, my friend. We take a skill and get better. We get so good that people stop and look. I used to be a painter. The blue collar, white ceilings with a roller kind of painter. I was not an artist. My boss, he could cut a freehand line so straight and level you'd think he'd used tape on the wall. Nope, just good at his job. An artist.

But spray paint on a rock wall?! That's fucking DIFFICULT. Extreme challenge. My boss couldn't paint that on his very best day. There would be overrun, splatter. The wispy little hair on Yoda's head would look like Charlie Brown or Homer Simpson.

....

Ok, I think they're all gone now. Just between you and I, this is absolute garbage, 100% agree with you - but probably for different reasons.

Yoda is a soldier. He's not just a grunt, either. He symbolizes conflict and war. He is the hero of a movie franchise called Star Wars. It's literally a blockbuster movie about war. Glorifying war. So I feel that the artist made a horrible artistic choice in using Star Wars as a play on Stop Wars.

The concepts bump, making it an uncomfortable moment. Like a child who proudly presents you a picture of a violent scene drawn messily in crayon. You want to match their energy, but you're lk wondering if the little idiot is just messing with you.

This one is worse. Are we shaming people for giving honest feedback? is that how we foster discussion? Is it not enough that he got negative feedback? Must you grind your heel in his face because his taste in art is not the same as yours?

I'm not a visual art fan. When I read manga I pay way more attention to the text than the art. Visual art is innocuous to me, it's just there. Like, if you knew someone in college who had a bunch of movie posters in their room, after you've been in their room a few times you don't even notice any more? It's like that from the start with all static visual art (paintings/statues/pictures etc) for me.

NOW THATS WHAT I CALL ART

Maybe I'm just drunk and missing something, but.... Why is this in Funny?

Is it just that whoever wrote the text at the top is a little bit cringe? Is it that the art itself is, I dunno, derivative? Is it something to do with the actual stop sign? I'm lost.....

Ok, what about other art forms?

Yoda is a soldier. He's not just a grunt, either. He symbolizes conflict and war. He is the hero of a movie franchise called Star Wars. It's literally a blockbuster movie about war. Glorifying war. So I feel that the artist made a horrible artistic choice in using Star Wars as a play on Stop Wars.

Like all the anti-war movies whose main characters are soldiers? That's a shallow point of view if I've ever read one.

Yoda saw the fall of the democratic nation he wanted to protect, the rise of a fascist empire, and lost everybody he ever knew and cherished along the way, only to end up as a bitter hermit in a swamp.
Soldiers are victims too, even if they don't die in a war.

Maybe the same kind of person that says "Im not a big politics person" like no you just dont like using your brain.

You are asking all the right questions imo

You'd be surprised how boring some human minds are. I recently heard someone say "I don't care for art unless it means something". As if totally ignorant to the fact that it's nearly impossible to create a thing without it meaning something to the artist. I think this dude meant "if it doesn't mean something to me personally, and probably due to a religious overtone, it's worthless". Pretty sad and boring self-centered experience if you ask me.

most art is garbage

It would not be possible to scream louder "I have shitty tastes and am not relatable at all!!"

Lmao the idea you want us to accept is "if we cannot seriously engage with rage baiting trolls who express the opinion that 'all art is shitty' then we have lost our very souls!! Oh, the humanity!!'

Only problem is that it was already there :)

Stop wars

Hurr durr

Sorry you interpret that as rage baiting trolling.

"Hurr surr stop wars" is juvenile crap, full stop.

As if no one has ever thought of this before.

Calling it art and acting like everyone should agree with that is nothing but Emperor's New Clothes.

manga without the art.... like a book?

This isn't "most art".

Street (and all) art is of many skill/experience levels and one can even appreciate those likely 19 year olds who haven't done their best work yet but are technically more skilled than, oh I don't know, say you

Most of my art doesn't mean anything. I essentially run a procedural generation script like I'm a Minecraft server or a screensaver or something. The pieces that contain some meaning are usually limited to being visually pleasing or practically useful rather than having artistic meaning. The meaninglessness has made me very depressed for most of my life, but I've been making some progress recently on not giving a shit. (Shout-out to Erasmus from the Dune prequels. I feel your pain, buddy.)

And that's cool too. I mean "being visually pleasing" has a meaning in a sense too. It makes you feel a certain way, and that feeling can be different for every viewer. Sure that probably sounds "woo woo" or something but a thing that pleases you means something to you. Also just the act of creation can be very therapeutic and that's meaningful in its own way too. I wish you luck with your depression. That one has been a bitch for me as well. In fact I never feel like I have time to make art, but when I do it feels great.

basically, I didn't even notice until I was reading chapter discussions and people were discussing some of the background characters doing something silly that I had no idea was happening.

Cuz it's my hecking star wars

My favorite art is the kind that makes emotional.