Is it just me????
When when I was a little kid I thought that a lot of those pen and ink illustrations from the late 60's and 70's sucked. Hard. So why is it that for the last few years I've been seeing a lot of new artists doing that style. I mean yuck. There is a reason that the style died out. But maybe its just me and everyone else likes that shit? Honestly I think that I understand why that style got a foothold back in the day. See, art colleges stopped teaching representational art because it was believed to be old hat and abstract art was the thing that was making money at the time. Part of the reason for that was that magazines had largely switched over to using photographs instead of illustrations. The Illustration market died for the most part after 1950. But the artworld was still selling, so why should anyone bother to learn how to draw when you could drip paint on a canvas and then make rich people a) feel like they are cultured b) make them richer by trading your work for a higher price than what you got for it in the first place.
This is why I believe that if you are an artist that doesn't make money or at least a decent living with your work you should destroy it when you die. I'm sure Van Gogh is turning in his grave right now. This dude made no money off of his hard work and now its selling for tons of money that he can't use.
When ever I see crappy artists get over it really makes me feel disgusted. But the upside is that the standards are improving. So that the average artist is much better than the average artist 20 years ago. This is what keeps me on my toes. I don't think that self promoters/swho call themselves artists will ever disappear though since promotion is a more important skill that draftsmanship. After all how can people enjoy your work if they don't know it exist?
This is why I believe that if you are an artist that doesn't make money or at least a decent living with your work you should destroy it when you die. I'm sure Van Gogh is turning in his grave right now. This dude made no money off of his hard work and now its selling for tons of money that he can't use.
When ever I see crappy artists get over it really makes me feel disgusted. But the upside is that the standards are improving. So that the average artist is much better than the average artist 20 years ago. This is what keeps me on my toes. I don't think that self promoters/swho call themselves artists will ever disappear though since promotion is a more important skill that draftsmanship. After all how can people enjoy your work if they don't know it exist?