>>5806143Tradition doesn't actually exist. It's a lie told by idiots to convince other idiots that the world used to be neat and orderly.
You can't define tradition. It's easy in theory, since the definition is something like a long-standing ritual or method, but the specifics completely dissappear when you look hard.
Is tradition doing it how it has been done since the beginning? Because if that's the goal then you should be aiming to imitate cave paintings.
There's no tradition for anything really. Some of the earliest art we have is exceedingly cartoonish and figurative. The ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians drew like fucking calarts dropouts. The Roman's and Greeks painted their sculptures in incredibly garish colors. Abstract, symbolic, or just bad art has been prominent in every culture which produced art for the entirety of art history.
You can't reproduce the methods of learning for really any of the great masters either. Many of the artists you think you look up to were self-taught or learned through odd methods and for the ones that were traditionally schooled we don't have much record of exactly how they learned.
>Just do whatever and sell it for money.The reality that you need to come to grips with is that you will NEVER invent standards that
A)always priduce good art
B)Allow for good but new and inventive art to be made
C)Don't drain the souls of the artists subject to them
No artist on earth wants to always submit to a review board before they put paint on canvas. No set of standards will prevent certain artists from desperately trying to be abstract, provocative, or just weird. And the existence or lack thereof of standards will not fundamentally drive artists to create better art.
I strive to hone my craft despite my belief that standards dont exist simply because I want to. Nobody on this board grinds boxes or watches hours of chink lectures because some crusty fuck told them that if they didn't do it society would collapse.
