This ‘dazzling’ Sydney wedding picture was nothing of the sort. It was a cheap bit of pimped-up nature treated as if it were genuine artIt is natural to expect that with technological advances we will also become more civilised,culturally sophisticated and capable of intelligence in understanding art. But the rise of digital photography proves this to be unfaithful.
Superb widely available cameras, often on our phones, and possess turned us all into “artists”. But the art we originate,coo over and share on Instagram is often unbelievably corny, sentimental, or vacuous nonsense. The more easily created and universally visible photography becomes,it seems the more flesh-crawlingly stupid its aesthetic values. We are turning into a world of bad artists, cosily congratulating one another on every new slice of sheer kitsch.
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Source: theguardian.com