Hovagimyan’s On ****
Media discussed post-media and the evolution of art forms and people’s
interactions with them. Something I found very interesting in this week’s
reading was this idea that as we develop technology that allows us to replicate
or portray things more and more realistically, the medium that new technology
was replaced with begins to move into a move creative direction. Simple
replication becomes less important because something exists that can do it
better. Art is constantly changing and the tools with which we create art are
becoming more advanced at an alarming rate. Even as a 22-year-old I find myself
saying, “Remember back in the day when we couldn’t capture every moment with a
photograph?” The video I am posting is a somewhat literal response to the
reading because I really enjoyed the thought of this pressure to be realistic
being taken off one medium and allowing it to be more abstract and
creative in different ways. I posted a remix of Bob Ross's videos (the guy who made
videos with step by step instructions explaining how to paint very generic
scenery). While everyone has different
taste and enjoys different forms of art, there is definitely some judgment that
comes from the art world when someone paints or creates something generic,
unimaginative or without content (bringing in the concept of intermedia!). This
just shows how art has evolved and comments on Hovagimyan’s point that with the
invention of photography, painters were no longer needed to portray realistic
scenes. This video shows how we now laugh at and make fun of people like Bob
Ross whose artwork and style of painting is antiquated.
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