It's NOT FUNNY and it's NOT ART
OK, enough of me being quiet. Let me say it blatantly clear,
IT IS NOT FUNNY
It is worrying, because it is becoming a valid form of humour. I am talking about all the offensive "comic" programs of the sort of "The Simpsons" and "South Park".
My idea of WHY it is there in the first place, is because my generation and the newer ones are utterly NUMB to all forms of human suffering. Mind you, they are NUMB to most things anyway, but few have such a BIG impact in society. The very thing that stops us beating each other up, the feeling of EMPATHY with other human beings, something so important and basic that we see it in animal groups, it's, well, not so important, really. And so we find human suffering funny. Blood, rape, murder, wrap it up and bring it in, so we can laugh, feel something, for a change. Never before have we been exposed to so much violence, and never before in such an utterly POINTLESS context. I will never approve of violence for ANY cause, but I have to admit that having people believing that violence is the inevitable price of a greater cause is definitely better than violence for the sake of it. Well, not really the sake of it. It's for "FUN". Or ART. Or both.
All these thinking was triggered by the OBSCENE amount of violence I see in a web page supposedly dedicated to the ART comunity, DEVIANTART. It's a web page where people upload their art. I was never expecting anything "meaningful" from it, as I think art should be. But one thing is to have meaningless drawings, and quite another is to have meaningles VIOLENCE. It appears that you can't produce a real work of art unless there's blood everywhere on it. "Meaningless" blood. No one is supporting anything behind it. There's NOTHING to justify the blood, appart from the need to call the viewer's attention. Oh yes, blood is bound to make an impression. And sex, plenty of it. And violence. Let's make a big thing out of nothing and get lots of attention. Popularity!. That's GOT to be ART!.
At the end of the day, these people come from our culture, so there is no surprise they have very little or no sensitivity at all. What makes it even sadder, is that they consider themselves artists. Maybe I got it terribly wrong, but I thought that artists where amongst the most sentitive of people.
To put it in few words: it's not FUNNY, there's people SUFFERING. And it's not ART, is just pointless "ATTENTION SEEKING".
Thank you
The "ART" community
