• ShaunaTheDead@fedia.io
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    2 months ago

    Artists that talk like they’re showing off their latest work that they’re proud of? I don’t understand.

    • Lem Jukes@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      It’s killing the frog. Instead of letting the audience experience the work and the emotional journey therein. The artist is introducing the piece with with the very blatant context of ‘this painting looks pretty but is actually really deep, can you find what I mean?’

      It’s not bad, per se, but it cheapens the experience and comes off as pretentious.

        • flicker@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          Thank you.

          I’m not giving deeper meaning glances to a random pic in my feed. I have a few minutes here and there to scroll and I’m not devoting this-might-be-thought-provoking levels of time to random nonsense.

          Hell the second highest rated top-level comment on this post is someone asking for help seeing the story.

          People who are so high on their own farts that they get irritated that other, less intelligent or less attention capable people are getting a hint and that they should have to (gasp!) see that is ridiculous. That’s where the real pretention is.