"Things might be tough but it's great for artists! They'll create more!" You might not believe me but going through a lifetime's worth of stress Every Single Week for years and years- is actually not the optimal set of circumstances that inspires artists to create
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You need a stable society to support people making things to entertain and an audience who has the leisure to partake.
You wouldn't get it, it's the future, drawing is an obsolete and for libtards , prompt fondling is where the REAL skill is at. 😎
I want to fight and create beautiful things, but how?
I fully believe art & artists are integral to getting through the worst of times… but the worst of times are just as hard on them as everyone else
I don’t think I know a single artist who wasn’t already worried about the rise of what’s baldly full blown now for decades +.
I fucking hate it.
Says someone who is erratically productive AND when under utter joy or tremendous stress.
People are so dumb sometimes.
Not exactly a Conan-fanfic fate.
It’s going to be hard not to repeat that going forward
Even the biggest artists in history died poor. I suppose they're not really waiting for us to die anymore.
But we'll find a way. Keep creating, for yourself and for us.
I’ve been trying to more, but to think that’s some kind of benefit to turmoil is really messed up.
Artists will always want to make art but the environment for doing it needn't be so fucking hostile and inhospitable to them.
Every day we get closer to another Dada-esque art movement.
It's something I've felt like will be even more likely to happen over the years. Art doesn't exist in a vacuum, after all!
Unless you’re referencing the support network that might come with the collective. Because that would sooner help get them of it if survival mode and moot the point I feel. Lol
https://bsky.app/profile/abedalrhman.bsky.social/post/3lgknsleedc2n
The mainstay of art history is peopled with folks who not only got by on it, but thrived stupendously. I find that history more heartening.
"My life would bore an Excel spreadsheet, but at least I'm not that!"
If you're creative, successful and not corporate, you're like a slightly terrifying unicorn.
Like, fuck all y'all, I like being able to pay my rent with something other than a crappy day job I need because y'all won't pay artists for our work.
Which many folks don't want to do.
But without downtime? Without periods of peace where we can recharge and let our mind wander? We'll be burned out and used up before we're 30.
Very different kinds of stress. Looming Doom is not great for artists or anyone else. If anything, it makes one question whether it’s worth creating anything at all.
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I refuse to believe otherwise
-Gustave Flaubert
Me, at 32 after years and years of struggling: -longterm stay in the psychiatric hospital to deal with my cptsd, depression and anxiety- "even when I can't write, at least I have creative thoughts??"
"they'll create more" doesn't mean they are able to produce more works of ★quality★
artists may create their most emotional and impactful pieces, but... at what cost? they might not even make it out alive.
romanticising times of despair is wrong.
A drought of whimsy
If your energy is all taken up with surviving the horror show, you have nothing left to create.
Of course... That's what the bastards want - at times like this, still finding a way to create is an act of defiance (though I appreciate not one everybody can manage).
https://youtube.com/shorts/UljZmbgK_sI?si=uFG2xIa45cnKlVdJ
My creative is longer gone since, but yeah, let's suffering together, yay!
When I think about great writing inspired by the Holocaust, for example, that all came after the war.
Wtf are your priorities?
Please explain.
Hell, I gave up going to art school and didn't draw for over a decade because "not dying" took precedence over being creatively fulfilled.
I don't remember a ton of artists releasing a ton of protest songs during Trump's first run.
Which thinking about it, possibly suggests another reason for its gutting ☹️
Its almost impossible to create at all let alone be more productive creativly!
I was literally just working on a new thing. Felt awful so now im lying down trying to calm myself enough to work on it again..
I wish people understood struggle doesnt make better art/artists
It's a balancing act the way I see it, as I try to see everything.
Artists are exhausted.
We're still doing our thing, but practically everyone I know has been running on fumes for ages now, and it's not getting better.
I don't want art if it means Fascism - especially given the Fascist's idea of Art being Naught.
It amazes me how much society is based around consuming art while making art jobs so hard to attain.
How about we start respecting both ?
Creating from emotion doesn't mean you need to be subjected to it on the daily, that's unhealthy!
I would argue that a majority of art through the ages has been inspired by people being horny
But my point is more.... expecting artists to always feel one thing, or feel at an extreme, with the expectations they'll churn out masterpieces every time is inhuman.
Quite the opposite imo!
I've been trying to create more also.
I wish more people were sympathetic to artists and at least be willing to pay them for the amount of TIME and constant effort (both physical and emotional) that goes into making it.
We should already get it, because the govt disabled us all intentionally
Before the generational trauma also invisibly disabled us before we are born
Bc I remember them, they weren't r******* like us
& no one who has ever lived as had PTSD like the internet has given us all
2013?
Not like they can't afford to have a literal army of artists on their payroll.
How silly of me to think otherwise /j
Kinda glad I don't encounter them directly.
(You know what'd actually let them create more? Supporting them financially.)
See: The entire impressionist movement.
The very end of 2020 is when the dam of depression started to crack and things finally began to flow again.
Constant looming dread is NOT a good environment for creativity!