The road to this moment was paved by self-styled 'artists' who got everyone to pretend that a banana taped to a wall or a photograph of a crucifix immersed in urine is not only 'art', but 'great art' at the level of the Sistine Chapel. In a domain where everything has become a put-on, advocates for DALL-E and other, similar systems are right at home.
The road to this moment was paved by self-styled 'artists' who got everyone to pretend that a banana taped to a wall or a photograph of a crucifix immersed in urine is not only 'art', but 'great art' at the level of the Sistine Chapel. In a domain where everything has become a put-on, advocates for DALL-E and other, similar systems are right at home.
I can't think of any of the purveyors of the new "art" (like the crucifix in urine and the elephant-dung madonna) who weren't using their art to show how far Left they are.
Maybe you're using "Left" in a sense unfamiliar to me. I see it more as a matter of outsized self-importance and a false urgency to do something "new" and "disruptive" or "transgressive", rather than anything overtly political.
The road to this moment was paved by self-styled 'artists' who got everyone to pretend that a banana taped to a wall or a photograph of a crucifix immersed in urine is not only 'art', but 'great art' at the level of the Sistine Chapel. In a domain where everything has become a put-on, advocates for DALL-E and other, similar systems are right at home.
You make a very good point. Art itself--as a concept--has been hijacked by Leftists for decades. Art is whatever the Left says is art.
I don't think this is a right-left thing, but some other dynamic in the culture.
I can't think of any of the purveyors of the new "art" (like the crucifix in urine and the elephant-dung madonna) who weren't using their art to show how far Left they are.
Maybe you're using "Left" in a sense unfamiliar to me. I see it more as a matter of outsized self-importance and a false urgency to do something "new" and "disruptive" or "transgressive", rather than anything overtly political.