Know Thyself -

Follow-up to the CRAP thread.

Modernity represents this turning away from reality, this self-referential process (solipsism) which I've identified as true Nihilism, where reality, nature, the world is not engaged in directly but indirectly.
The F-Artist depicts his emotional reactions to the world, and so he can claim to have value simply because he can convey them...or his marketing team convinces many that he can.

His value as an artist is totally artificial, founded on selling himself. It has no reference point, so anything can now be art if one, or more, individuals think it is so.
Everything is metaphorical, artistic, including language, and so the label "artist" and/or "art", defines someone who is popular, who is marketable, popular...who can earn money selling his metaphorical symbolism.

Modern art is subjectivity raised on a pedestal.
Sampling, similar to that found in C-Rap, is rampant in Modern art.
Perspectivism becomes, once more, the great equalizer. You can splash paint on a canvas, have a gorilla do it for you, if you like, or you can place a rock in a glass casing, and declare it art.
The onus is on the observer....his perception, his emotional reaction.
If you can imply to the many that you are saying something profound, that your f-art has a message, then he will be burdened with the need to find it, no matter what.
The F-Artist is a snake-oil salesman, with the right social networking to be marketed in sophisticated ways.

We see this admiration for hustlers, liars, in the modern psychology.
In C-Rap the bullshitter is made into an icon, and though stringing words together in a superficial rhyme, repeating the same egotistical, hyper-masculine message, is all he is doing, if he has the right connections he can make millions selling himself to idiots, and retards.

Same is true for all modern F-Art.
The assembly-line mentality, where production leads to the bottom-line....and the bottom-line, if in the black, is an indication of worth.
Numbers....all about the numbers, the Benjamins, the sales.

Like with all F-Art the practice of abstract nothingness sold as a somethingness, is dependent on sampling, references, deference, appealing to the lowest common denominator in the human psychology.
F-Art, based on no talent, on anything that might display a superior intellect, a higher sensibilities, is the great equalizer. A child can do it, an animals with a paint brush can create it, a computer engineer can manufacture it.

It's all 'relative', as is beauty, for the modern mind. Relative to the stupidity, simplicity, of the observer, and the cleverness of the observed.
Talent is now about convincing the masses of a lie.
There's no reality to measure the F-Art piece against, It can be anything, at any time, for anyone.
All is art, of equal merit, and so nothing artistic has any merit.