I know people have this triumphalist urge to kick sand in the face of the "old masters" who said paintings had to be of pretty sunsets in the beautiful countryside or be realistic portraits of attractive people But come on holy shit dude
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"Michelangelo wasn't a real sculptor he just got a naked twink to stand there looking hot and he copied it The David is just a representation of a real guy, where's the art"
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This is, in fact, a common defense of fanfic The argument being that one of the *most* respectable forms of writing has traditionally been narrative history and/or historical fiction Which is, after all, "fanfic of real life"
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And how can your imagination playing around with a story we all already know be respectable and artistic if the story is true but suddenly become a tawdry lazy shortcut is also fictional I guess she's given us the answer, she thinks it's *all* fanfic and *all* fanfic is bad
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Sorry, Tolstoy, if you were really a great writer you'd have made up an imaginary planet with an imaginary history to set War and Peace in, instead of just piggybacking on the existing story of the Napoleonic Wars and cashing in on everyone's nostalgia for them
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I can't quite tell if she's swinging through a "map is not the territory" argument, so that any transmission involves interpretation and shift, or if it's actually about artistic merit somehow.
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She is saying that it is a "diminished work" as it's removed from the original. This tells me this is someone who has never painted a landscape.
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also, it's not Vaporwave doing this I don't think. I think it's the person they're quoting.
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I think she was being sarcastic....or she decided to claim she was being sarcastic after the fact...
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I really think she was being sarcastic.
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