>>5881144Every kid coming out of college with an art degree is capable of that shit. And nobody is interested in buying it.
After the invention of the camera artists had to compete with a perfect image captured in seconds, which spiraled out into everyone trying to innovate and create something new and novel and different.
Art went from being a technical profession where you captured what a rich person looks like for posterity, which as a function got replaced by the camera, and it spiraled out into being about capturing abstract concepts and emotions and shit. The actual artist and their backstory and motivations and everything else started to become as important as the work itself.
Plus if you take issue with modern art you’re an anticapitalist. The market decided that innovation and novelty and subtext was more important than being able to replicate a camera.
As soon as combustion engines and interchangeable parts were invented and the industrial revolution was truly underway it was never going to go any differently in a free market system.
