Art Debates

A Basteirização e o fim da Arte

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Too many artists use modern materials now that make it too easy, like paint in tubes, brushes that are perfect and canvas and flat manufactured board. Paints made from plastic! What's wrong with fish blood and raw or burnt umber? A cave wall or an animal skin is all you need. We should stand up for REAL art the way it's been done for thousands of years. New fangled contrivances are cheating. We hear of renaissance artists using lenses and mirrors and even projecting light images on to their manufactured boards so they can do perspectives and likenesses. Using live models instead of artistic figures of people and animals that last for thousands of years on rock. Even carving on rock faces that were good enough for your great, great, great, great, great grandparents, Now they us marble from quarries and carve with saws and chisles and hammers made of metal. An evil man invented a printing press in Germany and now we will not ever have real art again. How deeply sad!

The rock walls we paint are evolving, and we can't have that. Go back before you ruin the arts! If you can't express on a cave wall, your concept is not worth sharing with the tribes. Period.

So that's how we think about this challenge?

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FEAR - False Evidence Appearing Real

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I fully agree. This might be the most historically accurate argument against progress I’ve ever read—it successfully critiques every innovation from the Renaissance to last Tuesday. ( I assume this was written by hand on animal hide and delivered by horseback? Otherwise we may already be slipping… )

Personally, I stopped using paint tubes years ago—I should really have gone back to grinding my own pigments and arguing with rocks. But I was afaraid The rocks would win.

I’ve also grown suspicious of brushes ever since they stopped being sticks with hair accidentally stuck to them. And don’t even get me started on perspective—feels like a bit of a shortcut if we’re being honest.

Although I do worry… if things keep going this way, artists might start using machines to help generate images. And then where will we be?

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Garret MooreMar 25, 2026

Does anyone see the hypocrisy hidden in the chaotic fear of uncertainty? Stop being scared sheep. Think for yourselves and use your God-given creative awareness. The world is much more than your senses can glean. The stories you are reacting to about AI are just that. Stories. Not awareness, not factual but only potentials we make real in how we think about it. You potentiate a bad outcome by the way you think about it. Who are you listening to? What do they actually know about the subject?
Your sketch is horrendous/ Now paint a better result with love, not fear.

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