Anyone here hate art?

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I mean it really depends on the art, whether I like it or not...though I consider music as art as well, but as for like visual art some of it I like and some of it I don't like but same with music.

For instance I appreciate the existance of like jazz music, as it even probably had influences into other styles of music....but I hate listening to it, like I want to turn it off if I hear it, but I respect it's an important and influential style of music. But I still hate it, listening to it does not give any auditory pleasure. But same with visual art either I really like what I am looking at, kind of like it, or I hate it and don't desire to see it again.

This topic has recently become interesting to me. I started painting a few months ago after treating art - whether creating, studying, observing, as something to be avoided for over half a century. What changed is rather significant but not really germane, so let me skip that and get to why I avoided and declared that I hated art for most of my life...

"How does the painting make you feel, AngelL?"

Apparently, "It doesn't make me feel anything" is the wrong answer. As a matter of fact, every response that I've ever had to any query ever about art has been just one more 'wrong' answer. Ironically, my wrong answer quite often comes on the heels of someone explaining to me that there are no 'wrong answers'. Anywho, I started painting a few months ago, as I said. I hired an art teacher from lessons.com and worked with her for two months, meeting once a week. I sent her a couple of questions via e-mail regarding the previous lesson, which I had been invited to do, and got fired.

And so, apparently I don't understand art any better after a couple months of lessons. That said, I don't hate art. I don't understand it - that's a given, but what I really hate is that art simply became one more way to drill into me that I am not normal, that not normal is 'bad', and therefore I, by extension, am also 'bad', 'wrong', 'broken', etc. I've found it hard to embrace those things that hurt when I do. I suppose it's why more people don't have pet cacti.

Art is in the eye of the beholder!

I guess it depends on how art is defined & what is considered art as to if I like it or not. I have a lot of colorblindness & that face blindness disorder so i am not a very visual person. I tend to find looking at pictures boring unless they are pix of hot women However pix of death can sometimes be interesting depending of if it's gory, morbid, & creepy. I'm a little bit gothic. I have a collection of crystal skulls & I have a fairly big collection of knives/blades & other types of weapons. Various blade makers consider their stuff a form of art like Kit Rae & Gil Hibben pride themselves on being fantasy art for very good reason. Some people consider music, TV shows & movies, & video-games to be art as well & I do have a big interest in music & I do like some TV shows & video-games but I consider that enjoyable entertainment more than art. Some people consider plays & ballets art but that is NOT my thing. Some consider fashion art which is also NOT my thing.
One time when I was in elementary school my class went on a field-trip to an art museum & a lot of us boys(especially me) were laughing at the log carvings of naked people with giant private parts

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Here is an example of the artsy-fartsy pretentiousness that is prevalent in the art world today:

Fnord (°1900, Anywhere, United States) creates mixed media artworks and conceptual artworks. By taking daily life as subject matter while commenting on the everyday aesthetic of middle class values, Fnord formalizes the coincidental and emphasizes the conscious process of composition that is behind the seemingly random works. The thought processes, which are supposedly private, highly subjective and unfiltered in their references to dream worlds, are frequently revealed as assemblages.

His mixed-media artworks are notable for their perfect finish and tactile nature. This is of great importance and bears witness to great craftsmanship. By focusing on techniques and materials, he considers making art a craft which is executed using clear formal rules and which should always refer to social reality.

His works feature coincidental, accidental, and unexpected connections which make it possible to revise art history and, even better, to complement it. Combining unrelated aspects lead to surprising analogies. By experimenting with aleatoric processes, he often creates work using creative game tactics, but these are never permissive. Play is a serious matter: during the game, different rules apply than in everyday life and even everyday objects undergo transubstantiation.

His works are characterised by the use of everyday objects in an atmosphere of middle-class mentality in which recognition plays an important role. Fnord currently lives and works in Stendec.

-- https://500letters.org/form_15.php

Most of the art I have seen at exhibitions has been the "Hot Pockets" of the art world.

Speaking of Hot Pockets, Jim Gaffigan has a take on the "artistic" process behind the Hot Pockets jingle (@ 3:45)...

I like making and handling art. Because it can be done 'both ways' -- meaningfully or meaninglessly.


I cannot say the same with viewing or consuming art even if it were my own.

It's a strange relationship.
Because viewing art usually reminds me of this inconsistent state -- seeing and interpreting too vary and maybe too often in different present times.


Times I can listen to my heart, and let it taste it. Then there are times I wholly listen to my head, seeing the strokes and curves in details with fascination.

Times I 'get it' and able to interpret whether it's intuitive or intellectual.
The inspiration over the medium's potential, the concerns around the message, the subconscious telling.


Then there are times, nothing.
Nothing but some overpriced block with paint on it or just noises with ups and downs of patterns, or a lump of well shaped clay...

Despite having any previous memory of other subjective experience, knowing the true value behind the apparent lack of purpose other than just something to be viewed.

It's frustrating. More frustrating if someone's telling me 'what it should meant' and 'how to subjectively take it'.

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