Thread by @elevatorcore, The fetishization of realism kills art.https://twitter.com/margaritaevna95/status/1291742307440566272 Looking through this person's page, I [...]

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The fetishization of realism kills art. https://twitter.com/margaritaevna95/status/1291742307440566272">https://twitter.com/margarita...

https://twitter.com/margaritaevna95/status/1291742307440566272

Looking through this person& #39;s page, I think this person somehow embodies everything I despise. They& #39;re are probably objectively worse people on this site but there are very few that seem to just objectively offend my values as a person.

Holy fuck, this blew up more than anything else I& #39;ve ever posted before. I don& #39;t really have anything to promote other than to say Black Lives Matter, smash capitalism and smash the state!

Also, my post isn& #39;t intended to hate on the painting on the left or the artist. I think the painting is fine and the artist is quite talented. It& #39;s more just to criticize a dumb and overly reductive attitude a lot of people have about art that really annoys me.

Also, I& #39;m not anti-realism. Some realistic works of art are good. It& #39;s just when it& #39;s the only metric used to measure art that it becomes a problem.

Also, I may misused the word "fetishization" here. Some people have said that it& #39;s not the right term to use for this and the term "obsession" would be better but it seemed the right word at the time and if I& #39;m misusing the word, I& #39;m sorry.

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