Why is Art dead(movies, music, cartoons, even Art itself!)?

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AnimatedFreak1234

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I feel that Art is completely gone nowadays, i mean Music has been degraded since 2005, and shows have gotten awful ever since Hannah Montana came along, Disney died ever since. Even Art itself is not good at all! Everything became so abstract, i mean not even good abstract, it gotten to the point where you can out a peice of wood with a hole in it and call it Art, I remember a quote saying "the more chaotic the world becomes the abstract Art will be", and i feel this is becoming true. Also movies have lost original ideas, and started doing somethin like Cowboys and Zombies, and there's no moral quality, or beauty in it, before movies were like a full course where you got everything you needed, and it was beneficial to you and helped you grow up. Now everything become more fan- service and Entertainment became more about the cold hard dollar then a good entertainment, movies now are just like chicken nuggets only to satisfy a craving or desire that lasts for about 10 minutes or so, and that applies to music, and cartoons as well. Also everything is becoming more 3D, what ever happened to goo old hand drawn cartoons where the characters felt more real even they were flat on paper they had such a dimension where you could actually explore it. To be more clear can anyone explain to me why is everything so dull, or why has Art lost it's magic?
 
In simple terms: The human race has become so stressed-out over economics, politics and warfare that we've become too lazy to properly educate our children or to even maintain a good work ethic in ourselves.

And yes, life is complicated these days. Some of this can't be helped. But.

Art, like anything else worth having, is work. It is. The ONLY way you can truly do it and do it well, is to approach it like any other job--like any other craft--and actually _learn_ how to properly convey meaning with it. Once you do that, then you become free to convey _your own_ meaning, without having to resort to cliches and name-brands. Even poetry is technical--rambling in free verse with awkward words only gets you so far, I had to learn that myself the hard way.

Seriously. Take one hard look at hip-hop. Yes, you do get your Snoop Doggs and your Busta Rhymes, men who somehow learned their words without the benefit of a High School Diploma. But the people who stick around and who _Are_ big influences, your Dr. Dre, your Public Enemy, and so on, the men who stick around and are influences usually _do_ in fact go to college and earn a degree. It's a question not just of having the vocabulary or the instincts to hit the beat and work on syllables--it's fundamentally about knowing how to think better so you can be better spoken.

And so it goes with everything. Art is a craft. It's a job, like any other. You have to put in the time, learn the ropes and know how to be competent in your field. It's the only real way art works.

This is the ultimate failing of both jazz and postmodernism--the notion of "abandoning notes to find notes" or of "the medium is the message". Either one. Neither of those approaches gets the point across--that you have to learn the system first, before you can abandon it. Or that you have to know how to make a message before you can be lazy and make a messy one.

You always have to put in the work and learn your craft first. Always. There's no faking it, no phoning it in.

That's why.
 
Bluntly, we are never going to keep up with living art because by the time it makes it into our institutions -- whether municipal like museums or commercial like clubs and comic books it's already passe and dead. We're looking at art that used to be alive.

For living art go to conventions and look in peoples sketchbooks.
 
You are so very very wrong.

I was all set to go in to a big rant, but I shall restrain myself. You need to look further afield than the next big blockbuster and check out independent films, less mainstream art galleries and support local unsigned bands if you want to see natural 'alive' art.

You want something good? Check out Archer. It is one of the best comedies on TV - it doesn't get compared to other cartoons like Family Guy, but 'real' comedies like Arrested Development. The art work is hand-drawn - hell, they even have special artists to make the background paintings that hang on the walls of the office. It has it's fill of low-brow humour sure, but for every joke about choke-sex, or tattooing babies, there is also a more obscure reference to Byron, Chekov or even Dali's pet ocelot.

You can't expect art to give you everything you expect - you have to go out and find the art you want.
 
I think people replace old art because they get tired of it.. I think we're out of new art, so we start making sculptures out of toilets (literally toilets). Movie ideas are endless, but I feel like a lot of the good ones are taken, or will overlap new ideas. Cartoon network/nickelodeon now make the cheapest cartoons I have ever seen.. ever! maybe low funding. Also, a lot of people who think they're good at art suck bowel movements at it! (www.deviantart.com has taught me that).

However.. some anime are still good.. (clannad, clannad after story is good art)
 
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