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NAB's avatar

I read an interesting comment on X/Twitter recently talking about the state of "modern art." The account, Fisher King, said something like: "the true test of an artist is if he or she can actually produce the real thing. For example, before Picasso went all angles and distorted features, he was trained in traditional methods and could do representational art very well. With current artists, many couldn't paint a landscape or draw using perspective if their life depended on it." He noted the same about musicians. Before Schoenberg experimented with 12 tone/atonal composition, he learned and used conventional music theory and could compose traditional music. Same with Shostakovitch, Bartok and the rest of early 20th c. composers.

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AJF's avatar

True NAB... I'd add color theory

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Kathy's avatar

Yes! And you can apply the same point to dancers, or even basketball players. There’s a lot more fundamentals than learning how to dunk!

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A Guy from South Florida's avatar

I could become an artist, just throw some paint on a canvas and I am making money selling that trash.....

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