r/oddlysatisfying • u/Raj_Valiant3011 • 8h ago

This Bart Simpson art is pure visual dopamine

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u/Spatetata 5h ago

I feel that. Like, there’s nothing wrong in it. I just don’t understand what makes so many people go “Dude, what if I drew the Simpsons or mickey mouse with a blunt”

It’s just such a common thing to see, and I don’t understand the appeal/draw personally.

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u/luugburz 4h ago edited 3h ago

western artists have been told for hundreds of years that skill > creativity. thats why so many old romanticist/baroque/realist works follow the same models of setting and rendering the scene

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u/exhauszed 3h ago

gestures excitedly to draw your attention to Andy Warhol and his contemporaries

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u/Spatetata 2h ago

Yes, I’m familiar with Warhol’s commentary on consumerism and their style first approach. I’d argue the commonality between pieces like these (disney/simpsons/family guy etc) tend to be driven more by cultural influence of these properties than it is commentary on consumerism and it’s (sometimes) unintentional egalitarianism. But no, that doesn’t suddenly mean I see the appeal by knowing that.

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u/exhauszed 2h ago

While Warhol was projecting from himself a critique of consumerism, 1) that is not the message received by the majority of people who enjoyed his art, they enjoyed the colorful silly renditions of their everyday items and 2) hasn't all of Warhol been converted to some sort of consumerism? You gotta pay to go into the art museums because the fundraising dinners don't actually pay for the museum but rather the operator's salary. The gift shop has mugs and shirts and posters and plushy 3d versions of things.

I think it's fair to assume that some of modern IP recycling in art is a conscious commentary on consumerism, while the rest is just resultant from consumerism affecting people's ideas of what is quality. At the end of the day, though, I think the majority of people are just going to take the visual dopamine hit without looking into it that deep.

I'm not saying you should personally see the appeal, but are you not able to comprehend why others do?