Beowulf wrote:What is the first thing that pops into your head when you hear someone say the word "art", in any context?
Beowulf wrote:Why is it when people talk of the artistic merits of AMVs, they get labled as pretentious or arrogent? (To be fair, a lot of said people are pretentious and arrogent.)
Beowulf wrote:Is likening AMVs to "high art" really so ridiculous? I don't think so at all. To me, art is all about what your trying to say with it. If you say something with a cut tool, a paint brush, a chisel, or your own vaginal blood, it doesn't really matter to me. If what your saying finds an audience, then what is the difference? I submit that there is none.Beowulf wrote: with this. considering AMVs high art is nowhere ridiculous if you think that way. You are entitled to your own thought process, and anyone that differs from that to follow someone elses without being forced to is worse than overrating something you like. You like what you like, just like you think something is art that someone else would not consider art.
Just a personal preference.Beowulf wrote:I bring this up because this is the only artistic community that I know of that has an EXTREMELY vocal self-depricating element. Since AMVs began there have always been people saying that AMVs are not art, are complete bullshit, take no skill, mean nothing, ect ect. I find it so fascinating that an element of a community would constantly put itself down and belittle its artistic acomplishments. Why would you do this?
The answer to that still alludes me. Besides being modest (which I believe you are not describing) there is no reason for people to do that. I personally haven't seen something like this, but I won't doubt you.BeoWulf wrote:Why can't the finest AMVs be held in the same breath as the finest paintings, sculptures, composers, ect? Is it the collective guilt of using pirated software (which we all do)? The feeling that since we are chopping up other peoples visions, our own must be insignificant?
Answer me.

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