I know, right? And what was the point of reading all those dumb, “classic” novels in high school anyway? Lord of the Flies? Who gives a shit. If my English teach had really wanted to be useful she would have spent less time on “analyzing” art and more time on helping me get laid, yo.
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How many people in 2018 would have even heard of Guernica if not for Picasso’s Guernica? How many would know of the Trojan War if not for Homer’s Illiad? Art has power, yo.
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Make it happen with your own hands and you may yet find yourself able to sense its weight.
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But that’s actually actively doing something!
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I sense that many would-be illustrators (a common entry point into the visual arts) get hung up on technique and objective appearances. I use Allie Brosh of Hyperbole and a Half as an example of someone whose drawings are crude, yes, but they are so goddamn emotionally resonant that it doesn’t matter. Aesthetically and expressively, I feel Brosh accomplished everything she meant to convey in those drawings.
Art can be pretty but it must, it must resonate.
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Great example! I fell in love with her blog way back when.
Aside from the vivid, sometimes wrenching content, I was especially blown away by just that – how much she could express emotionally with a few lines drawn with a simple program (Microsoft Paint, if I remember right). The result didn’t look “artistically accomplished” at all, but that didn’t matter.
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Agreed, emphatically.
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AHHHHHHHHHHHH!
…and you know, apparently there’s this whole white goth vampire chick/Bunnicula cross-genre thing with which I was previously unaware. 
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I’m hip.
Classic Bunnicula was a cool story/tv special from my childhood, and the reboot is trippy a/f:
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They reboot Bunnicula??!!??
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Wait, they made Bunnicula into a cartoon?! (I knew it as a book 
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