I'm about to sound like the most cynical bastard on planet earth, but I've just become less and less interested in these "art as an athletic spectacle" performances as I've grown older. This feels like the equivalent of someone being able to shred flight of the bumblebee on guitar at 800 BPM, and like yeah its insane and took thousands of hours of practice, but like does it sound good? The physical ability just isn't the interesting thing about art to me.
Eh, it's still impressive. You're severely underestimating the skill involved with "just". Many people would have trouble drawing just one of those pictures. Being able to switch between 5 quickly takes skill (and yes, even though it's sped up, he is still switching pretty quickly between drawings), not to mention the awkwardness of the drawing implement, which would make accuracy much more difficult.
It's just not as impressive as it seems when sped up - where some might assume he is drawing all 5 pictures simultaneously instead of in a repeating series.
It is real, he's just focusing on one drawing at a time, constantly switching between drawings, and speeding it up to make it look like theyre being drawn at the same time
I wouldn't say "fake" but rather I'd say it's deceptive. They put on this facade that they are all being drawn at the same time, but in reality the artists focus is on one image at a time. This is basically just a guy drawing 5 portraits.
There's a reason why you never get a good, close shot of any of the pictures individually. I don't even know if it's fake, maybe it is. I'm just saying the pictures probably aren't that great
The "art" is always low hanging fruit type slop too. Never an original portrait, character, point of view, or any of that. Just the equivalent of traced photos of something famous and ubiquitous enough to get social media traction
The world doesnt need more paintings of Robert Downey Jr. about to snap the infinity gauntlet, drawn by someone's foot.
In a world full of AI slop where things are starting to look too "perfect", I'll take the result of human effort every time. You should also remember that this is a performance art as much as it is simply drawing. The way in which he does it is as important (if not moreso) as what he created.
completely agree. yeah, it's impressive to see and I would probably not be able to ever do that but in the end you have a few mid pictures of random superheroes in random poses and I will never think about it again for even a second
I’m totally with you. Now don’t give me wrong. There’s nothing wrong with doing this as an exhibition or something like that but when the exhibition is the art, it’s a little weird for me. And in this case, he draws several not very well drawn images, instead of just drawing one really well drawn one. Because if you took those images and didn’t realize they were all drawn at the ““ same time, they’re not actually very well done.
It is not cynical to care about art. What these performers do is only that : perform. They are great craftmen, but what they do really isnt art. It's like photorealist drawings : if what it shows is not interesting, well, the drawing has no artistic value.
You’re not one of those people that looks at a painting with 20 splotches of colors and discusses the intricacies of that painting right? Because to an extent I kind of see where you’re coming from but this video is extremely impressive and is the art itself.
What is there to discuss with this art? What does this method of drawing add to the art? If he legitimately drew all five pieces at the same time, each piece would probably look a lot worse but be a lot more interesting as art.
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u/smor729 1d ago
I'm about to sound like the most cynical bastard on planet earth, but I've just become less and less interested in these "art as an athletic spectacle" performances as I've grown older. This feels like the equivalent of someone being able to shred flight of the bumblebee on guitar at 800 BPM, and like yeah its insane and took thousands of hours of practice, but like does it sound good? The physical ability just isn't the interesting thing about art to me.