Zed A. Shaw, Painter

Meanwhile, there would be no such thing as "designer" were it not for the industrialization of books, posters, prints, lithographs, photography, so it's pretty damn selective to rail against industrialization but...ya know know...only in my job.

This reminds me of painters I know from the Classical Realism world who rail against the use of photographs as being "too industrialized!" but then have no problem using Cadmium Yellow and tin tubes where were all invented about 20-40 years after the photograph.

Also guitarists who are notorious for talking about doing things "naturally" like, not using a little hair band on their guitar to stop strings from ringing when they play on a high gain amp...but then....they're using a fucking electric guitar and an insanely complex amp.

Any hatred of industrialization in design is now far too late. Design is a discipline born in a world of commercialization and entirely about selling people products, beliefs, and propaganda. The entire discipline has zero moral ground when talking about industrial capitalism.

Especially modern Design's root in Futurism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism  Which was the foundation of fascism and a major inspiration of industrialization, the brutality of the machine, and methods of fascis propaganda.

Paintings like this involved many many layers of oil paint, with each layer needing weeks to months to dry before the next layer. Flowers don't last that long, and many of these flowers don't bloom at the same time. Some of these paintings could also take 6 months, 2 seasons.