...one, a man turning around with an acrylic pour. Now, this was a popular thing for a while, gives you an attractive product, but - it's a technique, not an end in itself.
Still I like to look at them, the variety of artist's studios, some of which are quite impressive and a heck of a lot more inspiring than the nuisance and hazards area I've set up in my living room...
Then there's the other ones, turning over their "painting a day" until they manage to sell it. I suppose, given the breadth of their audience, that sooner or later somebody has to take an interest...
"Turning over Painting #17 Until I find my Audience", which - I understand, everyone wants an audience, needs one if they hope to sell their work, but - the products, so often derivative examples of talent and competency but rarely possess anything approaching "ART", but they're right, if they've an audience they're probably on Facebook right now...
And one - this was brilliant, a studio set up in a living room, a forty-something handsome woman just "going for it" an a canvas, an actress (you'd hope) primed with words like "Passion" and "Energy" and "Ebullience" and "Inspired" and "Create" and all sorts of other bollocks has filmed herself in slow motion splashing the canvas with brushes in either hand, close up, pan back, wonky angle, damn woman is throwing herself on the canvas again, she's going to paint it with her tits through a sweater, somebody, please, ....
It's over the top, really, but, damned if despite the nice weather nobodies out digging up crystals or gems.
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Found this on my "recommended" list, YouTube, so naturally watched.
No real person had anything to do with it. The dialogue, written by an AI before it became I, voiced by a text-to-speech generator, images and videos largely unrelated to the minerals being shown, short irrelevant clips frequently at odds with the "information" being narrated.
I can't be bothered to link to it, I'm pretty sure you've come across something similar - garbage, generated solely for your consumption, without the the slightest human agency.
Somewhere, though, there's a bot making this stuff and building up a hefty bank account, to judge from the number of views...
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Another Outsider Artist, this one a retired Australian Maths Teacher who upon dying is discovered to have created thousands of artworks.
Links:
- https://amp.abc.net.au/article/102969272
- https://www.hamiltongallery.org/events/robert-martiensen-the-secret/
Think, if his sister hadn't called in somebody with a little more taste and appreciation this would have been lost. And I see it all the time at the thrift shop (fortunately, in my opinion, most of what's donated from these estates is rubbish. Most. But there's always the possibility of an outlier...
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Meanwhile, Taco Tuesday, Cantina's got a new artist up:
View her work here: https://maasa.ca/
A pretty slick site, I gotta say, although artists who need to make "statements" generally annoy me it seems pretty much the standard nowadays.
On that note, my website is due for a massive overhaul, only it needs so much work and I've left it sooo long that ...
Well, I'll get around to it I'm sure.
(File this under art & artists of the Kootenays)
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