Raw LLM Responses

Here's a free lesson in art history: 'You're killing artists' careers' Vincent van Gogh died peniless because photography temporarily killed the market for representational art. He's considered one of the greatest painters who ever lived. 'The perspective is flat, the composition is boring' Pablo Picasso was a cubist, an art genre that's meant to symbolically show an image from all perspectives simultaneously, highlighting how everyone perceives the same events in different ways. 'It all looks the same' Andy Warhol's prints were commentary on how consumerism commodifies and homogenizes the world, with his prints of Campbell's soup cans specifically being a reaction to then-new supermarkets, full of rows of identical branded products. 'There's no intentionality behind it' Jackson Pollock's drip paintings are expressionist works. They're improvised because they're meant to manifest the numen, the latent divine essence, within the self. They are documents of the process of their own creation. 'The artist didn't do anything' Marcel du Champ's ready-mades are some of the most controversial art ever produced because 1. He did not make them. He only curated them, and 2. They include mundane (and in some cases vulgar) objects, the most infamous being a urinal. His point was to question the idea that being "art" somehow makes something more important. Robert Rauschenberg's White Painting, Derek Jarman's Blue, John Cage's 4'33", Kurt Vonegut's Slaughterhouse Five, James Joyce's Ulysses, William S. Burroughs' The Naked Lunch - all lazy, dull, nonsensical, and reductive by traditionalist standards, all extremely controversial. The kinds of things people complain about in AI art define postmodernism, and everything the left is saying about AI is everything the right has always said about "modern art."