They say that as a society increases in prosperity it begins to produce more art and other cultural works because as prosperity increased so does demand for art. It has something to do with economics and stuff which I have no interest in what so ever. Thus, 21st century society has so increased in prosperity that we have created the technology that would allow us to bring forth such staggering works as the image in this post. I mean, I am a very experienced with digital imaging software such as Photoshop and I can tell you that there was some hours put into creating the bird/thing you are now looking at. It's good work. Well done mystery artist.
I would love to be able to claim credit for this creation for several reasons:
- It would mean that I am a highly talented Photoshop artist
- and that I have a great eye for character creation
- and that I am either financially much better off because I have hours to devote to such a pointless thing (or unemployed)
The skills employed by the artist responsible for this image are some of the same skills that are building the foundation of popular culture today. The ability to manipulate pixels is one of the most powerful technological advancements of popular culture (just behind the actual invention of the pixel, of course).You might even go so far as to say that this image represents pop culture its self.
America, this little bird/thing is your soul...
1 comment:
I think there's more art in a prosperous society because there's more prosperous people with disposable incomes that can afford to pay someone to do something that isn't necessary to basic survival. Once food and shelter, basic comforts and simple luxuries are covered, the time comes for art for art's sake (not say, adding art onto something useful - i.e. making a pot pretty). From carving clay to look like miniature animals to abusing animal pics on the computer, the more time and money that a society can devote to art, the more there's going to be.
And as always, if you're going to art without a means to support yourself, you'll starve. It's as true today as it was 12,000 years ago.
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