babyblainers:ooksaidthelibrarian:maggie-stiefvater: nevver: What’s wrong with this picture? I’ll tell you what’s wrong with this picture: assumption. This picture has gone viral as thousands of people deliver searing indictments of both smartphones and teens. I’ve met a couple of teens. I’ve had a couple smartphones. Could these teens be playing Angry Birds or texting stupid jokes to each other? Yeah, they could. But they could also be googling provenance for that painting or taking a second to text a friend about how amazing the museum is or completing an assignment given off-screen by someone standing just beside the photographer. They could be taking notes about the palette choice so that later they turn into a generation of artists that take your breath away. What’s wrong with this picture? Nothing, until proven otherwise. Welcome to 2014. They are actually using an app as part of their museum tour. Tbh, even if they were playing angry birds or sending texts, I hardly see anything wrong with it. Appreciation for art is subjective. You’re not stupid if you don’t particularly enjoy paintings from centuries ago and you prefer modern art forms such as videogames (that, exactly like old paintings, require talent, skill and a godawful amount of time to be created). I hate this academic bullshit. That’s what irritates me about this particular strain of elitist dickwankery. Explain how exactly it says anything negative about me if I care more about Dragon Age: Inquisition than whatever that painting is. It’s a pretty painting, sure. Of some guys, I guess. They’ve got hats, and the lighting is nice. But I can think of a dozen vistas in DA:I that were just as pretty. What else is that painting supposed to offer me? How is it relevant to me? Who are those dudes? Why should I care?Elitist intellectuals keep insisting I should care about things like this painting, and sneering at me when I don’t, but why should I?I acknowledge the enormous technical skill and years of training it takes to create that kind of painting. You know what else takes enormous technical skill and years of training? Fuckin’ contemporary graphic art. Cinematography. Set design, costume design, computer programming. Flat-out, quality modern video games and movies and TV shows are just as beautiful, just as artistically inspired, and, in general, require FAR MORE work to produce than any Classic Work Of Art you want to point me at.Our generation’s artistic luminaries? The people who would have been creating masterworks of painting and sculpture if they had been born three hundred, four hundred years ago? They’re still making great art. They’re just doing it in mediums that weren’t even available back then.Fuck, man, wouldn’t you love to see what kind of video game Leonardo Da Vinci would have made?

babyblainers:

ooksaidthelibrarian:

maggie-stiefvater:

nevver:

What’s wrong with this picture?

I’ll tell you what’s wrong with this picture: assumption.

This picture has gone viral as thousands of people deliver searing indictments of both smartphones and teens.

I’ve met a couple of teens. I’ve had a couple smartphones. Could these teens be playing Angry Birds or texting stupid jokes to each other? Yeah, they could.

But they could also be googling provenance for that painting or taking a second to text a friend about how amazing the museum is or completing an assignment given off-screen by someone standing just beside the photographer. They could be taking notes about the palette choice so that later they turn into a generation of artists that take your breath away.

What’s wrong with this picture? Nothing, until proven otherwise. Welcome to 2014.

They are actually using an app as part of their museum tour.

Tbh, even if they were playing angry birds or sending texts, I hardly see anything wrong with it. Appreciation for art is subjective. You’re not stupid if you don’t particularly enjoy paintings from centuries ago and you prefer modern art forms such as videogames (that, exactly like old paintings, require talent, skill and a godawful amount of time to be created). 
I hate this academic bullshit.

That’s what irritates me about this particular strain of elitist dickwankery. Explain how exactly it says anything negative about me if I care more about Dragon Age: Inquisition than whatever that painting is. It’s a pretty painting, sure. Of some guys, I guess. They’ve got hats, and the lighting is nice. But I can think of a dozen vistas in DA:I that were just as pretty. What else is that painting supposed to offer me? How is it relevant to me? Who are those dudes? Why should I care?

Elitist intellectuals keep insisting I should care about things like this painting, and sneering at me when I don’t, but why should I?

I acknowledge the enormous technical skill and years of training it takes to create that kind of painting. You know what else takes enormous technical skill and years of training? Fuckin’ contemporary graphic art. Cinematography. Set design, costume design, computer programming. Flat-out, quality modern video games and movies and TV shows are just as beautiful, just as artistically inspired, and, in general, require FAR MORE work to produce than any Classic Work Of Art you want to point me at.

Our generation’s artistic luminaries? The people who would have been creating masterworks of painting and sculpture if they had been born three hundred, four hundred years ago? They’re still making great art. They’re just doing it in mediums that weren’t even available back then.

Fuck, man, wouldn’t you love to see what kind of video game Leonardo Da Vinci would have made?

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