/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3292258
>I knew that it would end eventually
so does life and yet people manage to enjoy that. either way, you're projecting onto my situation. it's pretty comfy rn. this summer i'm building a proper studio with good lighting for still lifes and such. good luck with your job.

>>3083680
>Basically: Most great art expresses something more than just "the artist."
what painting in the history of ever only expressed the artist themself?

>wanting to make art that is exactly about self-expression
what's wrong about that?

>People will think something is good just because it's "original."
this is not surprising to anyone. when the market is facing a brain-drain and everyone creates shit, anything new will be a welcome (even if brief) encounter.

>Artists before the Romantics did not put so much emphasis on self-expression
they were either paid human cameras or expressing their religious theories.

>You can say that the poet expresses himself when he uses certain cultural knowledge, themes, devices, and rules but it's more accurate to say he is using himself and his own poetic genius to filter these things which exist as concepts and systems outside of the poet.
nobody is going to understand what you're talking about here. try using some of those cultural knowledge, themes, and rules of the time you live in.

less pontificating. more tangible explanations, please.