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Ann Leckie@annleckie.com |
I am begging you to rethink if you find yourself saying any version of "Art should confront/disturb/disrupt/be realistic or plausible/buy me a pony/fill in the blank." Every artist has their own artistic project. Why do you think YOU get to tell them what it should be?
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Andrew Hiller
@andrewintheclouds.bsky.social
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amen. Art fills every need. Heck, sometimes, you just want art that makes you smile.
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Steve J. Wright
@stevejwright.bsky.social
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I was going to say "well, art should fill in the blank", but then the ghost of John Cage strapped me down and made me listen to 4'33" on repeat for seventeen hours.
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Kingfisher & Wombat
@tkingfisher.com
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Yup. Anything other than “Art should be a viable career” gets into prescriptive nonsense.
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🏳️⚧️ Nola Pfau 🏳️⚧️
@nolapfau.bsky.social
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Art should bring me a lil treat and maybe a coffee
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Ann Leckie
@annleckie.com
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"I like art that confronts and disturbs me." Lovely! I wish you all the joy in finding that art. "Art that I think isn't sufficiently confrontational and disturbing isn't real or good art." Yeah, fuck off.
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Nata Pokrovskaya
@natahq.bsky.social
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This reminds me of a line often attributed to Banksy: “to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable”. Personally, I try to stick to it as my tuning fork when making art. And I feel it doesn’t contradict what you’re saying, even though a “should” is implied.
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HB
@tursiops.bsky.social
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Thank you.
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@udepeep.bsky.social
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I had a serious accident in May and being confined to a bed, art that comforts me has kept me going. In Perhaps I'll be ready for art that challenges me and makes me uncomfortable again one day. We are changeable creatures and thank goodness all art is not the same.
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