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Originally Posted by ploesj
at a certain point in this century art started to be more about art itself than about making a picture of something. all work had to be refreshing and original, which would mean the end of art, because as soon as you show the piece a second time it's not original anymore.
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Good point. Because of the fastest technological advancement we experienced in what can be historically considered a short space of time, the thirst for originality sky-rocketed in ways that didn't happen on previous centuries, and went hand in hand with the core purpose for producing artwork like never before. This isn't a bad thing at all, when an artist produces work that can fight for space in a saturated market without heavy-handed, redundant contextualization, but when you see a dog being starved in a gallery with the dubious intentions of presenting it as art, any genuinely intelligent person should question if the meaning of originality that naturally impacts on the viewer has been distorted by the artist (and whoever supports his/her work).