Alright, back in the day(as in like the victorian era), art was basically restricted to the upper class - the "elite", and highly educated..The common folk had no concern w/it....But, one day...Art went from a delicacy only found amongst the high minded, to, a mass-produced money making machine - art was opened to the common folk - and, unfortunatelly, the average person isn't all that deep...THIS is when it began to decay into the mess we have now..it slowly started to get "dumbed down" so that the average person could understand absorb and like it - and then the increasing minmizing of talent put into creating it became a trend..ever notice how loosely & indiscriminately the term "artist" is thrown around
its true. i could splat colors on a white board and call it art. or draw squares and circles. but when you talk about replicating the type of artwork that davinci, greco, michalengalo, velasquez or people like that; lots of people don't paint like that anymore. its more about feeling and impressions (which is completely fine and i enjoy a lot of it) but old paintings were so much more about painting a picture and describing every detail.
exactly - & it's the same thing w/music, that's what I was refering to w/that comment
music is so much more about feeling. and it was like, "how can i express this love? write a symphony." but now its like, "how can i write a song about love that will make me rich?"