/lit/ - Literature

>>13470201
>by telling you the art you enjoy is terrible.
And you think that is substantial? We could go back and forth saying the same thing to each other ad infinitum and get nowhere. I don't consider that substance.

>>13470238
Same for you. You are not adding anything besides saying that you derive no aesthetic value from these things, therefore they have no aesthetic value period, which is equivalent to saying nothing at all.

>>13470244
>Just because something exists does not make it good.
Just because you find something valueless doesn't mean everyone does.

>And people continue to become more miserable. We have more than we've ever had in history, so why is anyone unhappy?
Well, not everyone has become more miserable. You'd also be hard-pressed to find a time when there was no misery at all.

>But the colors have been adjusted so radically, that he has become simply a part of the texture. All reality of the scene has been destroyed. But in favor of what? What is suggested by the color palette? What is the desired sensation?
Some of the color comes from the scene, perhaps decoratively added for the shot, and were enhanced by post-processing effects. By enhancing the colors that already exist, the photographer enhances the visceral emotions already emanating from the scene, i.e., the emotions produced by the hyper-sensational neon signs and dense juxtaposition of frivolous elements and marketing calligraphy which result in a surrealistic semiotic limbo lying somewhere between tangibility and abstraction, tradition and chaos. And all of this is only made possible by industrialization and computerization, so the scene at the end of the day celebrates these things in a very subtle manner.

>You cannot tell me this photo is of love, or of peace, or of hope, or any such good quality. It is not insightful--there is no understanding gained by it--it is not useful. If it offers any comfort, it is only the comfort of despair, which offers rest before the work is attempted.
I can tell you it is of love, and of peace, and of hope, and insightful, and I wouldn't be lying. Because we are not from the same culture, you and I. One man's trash is another man's treasure, so they say. Your posts are only serving to gatekeep for the values that you possess.