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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kesh" data-source="post: 1578183" data-attributes="member: 1308">I think, in my opinion, it boils down to this metaphor.Think about paintings. Now, there's a baseline here: you apply paint to some medium to create a statement and/or artwork. However, there's so many ways of doing so: realist, surreal, cubist, abstract, etc.I can understand when people say, "I can't stand cubism. It doesn't make any sense, it's just grossly distorted. An attention-grabber. It's not art, it's laziness." I can also understand when someone says, "Realism is a cop-out. You're just copying what's in front of you! Where's the challenge in that?" Or even, "I've heard some people think spraypainting a picture on a wall is art. BS! It's graffiti, nothing more! Defacing public property, spraying toxic chemicals all over the place... it's a real menace. They should lock all those losers up."What would boggle my mind is if someone said, "I hate paintings! Those damn splatters on walls are a waste of time, and trying to painstakingly copy that lighthouse on canvas is even worse. And those art snobs! God, I can't stand them! All that talk about 'negative space' and interrupting normal conversations to point out an interesting 'subject'. And don't get me started on those lewd Renaissance guys. There's really something wrong with those people."<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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