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DeviantArt’s Downfall Is Devastating, Depressing, and Dumb (slate.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (2 children)

As the photographic industry was the refuge of every would-be painter, every painter too ill-endowed or too lazy to complete his studies, this universal infatuation bore not only the mark of a blindness, an imbecility, but had also the air of a vengeance. I do not believe, or at least I do not wish to believe, in the absolute success of such a brutish conspiracy, in which, as in all others, one finds both fools and knaves; but I am convinced that the ill-applied developments of photography, like all other purely material developments of progress, have contributed much to the impoverishment of the French artistic genius, which is already so scarce. It is nonetheless obvious that this industry, by invading the territories of art, has become art’s most mortal enemy, and that the confusion of their several functions prevents any of them from being properly fulfilled.

― Charles Baudelaire, On Photography, from The Salon of 1859

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

have contributed much to the impoverishment of the French artistic genius, which is already so scarce.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago

TBF he was kind of right, if you look at the industry of wall art these days then 98% of whats on people's walls is printed imagery and copies. Imagine if we paid a real artist directly for every one of those framed and hung works instead of giving profit to some soulless corporation to make monotony incarnate.