Bitching about ugly art thread - For art you think is ugly and want to bitch about

[AMHOLIO]

Why do SJW's often pick really hideous art style's. Is it to reflect their looks?
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Talent doesn't matter when you get upboats for just being diverse and unique.

I don't know what this style is but I do not like it:

 

[AMHOLIO]

Doublepost, this man has a thread and it's another artstyle I don't know what it's called but it 9/10 times leads to someone really annoying.

I wonder who patient zero is of this artstyle, the FNAF community has a lot of it.

 

[2mm and 99 others]

I really hate the kind of "art" that is more of an inflammatory ego wanking by the artist more than anything. The kind of twitter garbage where the characters always have the most retarded shit eating grin across their face and is mixed with some kind of calarts artstyle. Like Hazbin hotel for example.

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In mammals like humans, smiling excessively like this indicates the character is afraid and nervous. Not "badass" or whatever other autistic retard shit that makes most of these kinds of artists end up with a thread here. Its like the art equivalent of the beta male gawking face expression thread and frankly, its a red flag whenever I see this kind of retarded shit spammed across the internet even in completely unrelated places. Because 9/10 times the poster is some kind of mentally ill autist outside of explaining why you hate this "art". I am sure it could be worth a thread of its own due to how prevalent it is in recent years.

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Thank you, thank you, finally someone put it well into the words. I hate that style so fucking much, it screams mental illness and instability and even if the trashbin hotel had the best story ever, I wouldnt bring myself to watch it.

TAX: The extremely ugly 3D movie Goat Story, mostly known thanks to Kurtis Conner's videos, in its entirety on youtube

 

[invisibult plus+]

Doublepost, this man has a thread and it's another artstyle I don't know what it's called but it 9/10 times leads to someone really annoying.
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I wonder who patient zero is of this artstyle, the FNAF community has a lot of it.

I think it’s the “skrunkly/scrimbo” style- Tumblr has a lot of it.

 

[Crex Crex]

Why do SJW's often pick really hideous art style's. Is it to reflect their looks?
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Because most SJW "artists" are not real artists. They hop onto a trend to feel special, and can only master that hideous cartoonish tumblr artstyle because it's very easy.

 

[Colon capital V]

I think it’s the “skrunkly/scrimbo

the what

 

[invisibult plus+]

the what

The idea is "ugly/funky cute."

 

[2mm and 99 others]

It's the usual tumblr circlejerk retard talk, like scrimblo bimblo, blorbo, plinko and such. Don't stare into the abyss.

 

[Clovis]

Memphis fucking corporate makes me break out in hives at this point.

But I've always hated continental Romanticism. Perhaps it's too rich for my anglo blood, or more likely because it's the sort of autistic shite that would only appeal to the sort of people who think they can find depth and profundity in a marvel superhero movie. It's not even got the leaden stylishness of soviet/nazi realism. It's just florid illustration with pretentions.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

Memphis fucking corporate makes me break out in hives at this point.

But I've always hated continental Romanticism. Perhaps it's too rich for my anglo blood, or more likely because it's the sort of autistic shite that would only appeal to the sort of people who think they can find depth and profundity in a marvel superhero movie. It's not even got the leaden stylishness of soviet/nazi realism. It's just florid illustration with pretentions.

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I honestly really love Caspar David Friedrich's artworks. I'm astonished by how well his artwork looks. The one you picked was one of the most optimistic ones. However, he has a lot of really gloomy pictures depicting a scene with a lonely person often overlooked and usually facing the other way. But I wholeheartedly agree with you point about the Memphis corporate art style, seeing these designs everyone feels like a nightmare at this point. I find it a lazy half assed excuse to make a presentation. They could just use GoAnimate or Plotagon if they want the same shitty effect. I'd be more forgiving if they use those instead.

 

[2mm and 99 others]

I don't quite get the random undress of some of the figures on 1st and 3rd, like, I'd say that kind of dress would allow her to wave the flag no problem, also there is some guy with no pants and only one shoe, and on the 3rd a drowned pantless guy with some fabric over his head- why? It seems to me very calculated for the dramatic effect.

But the Wanderer above the sea of fog is a quite realistic hiker's life scene (except the fact this particular scenery doesn't exist IRL, it's rearranged formations from various parts of that land), I bet the most of outdoorsy people wanted such a photo at some point of their life and at least tried. I get someone might not like it, as the pose is cliched and overused for, like, almost 200 years. But it conveys the vibe of a good hike very well.

 

[AMHOLIO]

I don't quite get the random undress of some of the figures on 1st and 3rd, like, I'd say that kind of dress would allow her to wave the flag no problem, also there is some guy with no pants and only one shoe, and on the 3rd a drowned pantless guy with some fabric over his head- why? It seems to me very calculated for the dramatic effect.

It makes much more sense when you know the backstory of the painting: it's The Raft of the Medusa, a real life tale of gross incompetence.

The captain of the Medusa, who had received command of the ship through royal patronage, accidentally ran the ship aground on a sandbar off the coast of West Africa. The ship’s carpenter could not repair the Medusa and the decision was made to put the governor, his family and other high-ranking passengers into the six lifeboats. The remaining 150 passengers found themselves packed onto a raft made by the carpenter from the masts of the Medusa.

The group on the raft included lower-ranking military men, colonists, and sailors of European and African descent. The overcrowded makeshift raft, just 65 x 23 feet, was lashed to the lifeboats, but it impeded their progress so the more elite passengers in the boats took axes and cut the lines to the raft, casting it adrift. Of the 150 people aboard the raft, 15 were rescued by the Argus—the ship that we can barely see at the back of the canvas—and only 10 ultimately survived to tell the tale of cannibalism, murder, and other horrors aboard the raft.

It's a landmark painting for the time because horrors like that weren't usually painted on a 16 by 23 feet. This preserved the real life fuck ups for generations to come, and a fascinating, morbid, & moving subject to make a painting on. Again, things are different when it's stupidly big and you are walking across a room looking at the mural, focusing first on the whole thing from a distance then up close where you can look at something inch by inch.

The other is Liberty Leading the People in one of France's many revolutions. It's 8.5 by 10.5 feet, another where a lot of things are crammed but at least the painting is big so you can focus on pieces at a time. It is a propaganda piece (you can say the Medusa was too) so the cramming in of many things was intentional.

Romanticism covers a lot of different artists and like most artistic movements have nebulous definitions and arguments about what and what it isn't. I personally enjoy a good portion of the paintings. Depends on the artist for me, I love the Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog myself. It's a good mood like you said. There's some artists in it I don't like due to stiffness of subjects, pretentiousness, overcrowdedness, but there's a lot I like too. I don't agree with Clovis but it's very interesting to see from his perspective on it.

Edit: check out Francisco Goya's art for a less crowded clusterfuck of romanticism. He's probably my favorite of the movement.

Perhaps it's too rich for my anglo blood,

Can't be that - check out how many anglos are on here.

 

[Clovis]

Can't be that - check out how many anglos are on here.

That's why I specified *continental* Romanticism. Compare the sensibilities of something as stolidly dull as the Haywain, with the overblown history paintings.

Spoiler: more Romanticism sperging

My main issue comes from my context as a post-photography, post-modern viewer. When it was first shown in the Paris salon it wasn't long after the actual wreck and people were hungry to see an illustration of the disaster they'd already read about. Which kind of drags it down to the level of illustration. Its both merely functional and floridly dramatic at the same time. Because people wanted different things from paintings in the early 1800s; they wanted them to be didactic, documentary and technical.
Today, I just want more *art* in my painting, technique is not enough on its own because we have photocopiers and cameras that reproduce images with great fideity, we have industrial image production (in the hands of the masses!) allowing us to share images widely and instantly - as Walter Benjamin prophesied. Because I get my functional images when I read the news, look at ads, look at social media. Images are so disposable and ubiquitous now that I need capital-A Art to be much deeper and self-aware than being merely an illustrative picture. I cannot see them, from 2024, in the way they were intended to be seen at the time and so personally, not only do I not like them on an aesthetic level I also find them flat in terms of concept.

Anyway, I've just had the displeasure of discovering Julian Ritter who made a career of painting clowns and tits. Badly. I don't know if these would be better suited to the cursed images thread and I am genuinely unsettled looking at these glimpses into his psyche. They're objectively shit paintings of course, but beyond that they're just an insult to humanity. They're awful.

Spoiler: NSFW clowns'n'tits

What the actual fuck is going on here? I feel unclean having seen this shit, not least because of the painting style. It's like 60's pulp filtered through hell.

 

[2mm and 99 others]

Just fucking learn to draw noses, ffs.

(Her entire gallery is this unsettling and repulsive to look at. Not a single nose in sight. https://www.tumblr.com/wagen-art
Reminds me of a webcomic strip I can't find now, where characters are quite detailed except for hands, the guy just draws stumps instead.

 

[CosmicWhisper]

now, if seen some bad art before... but nothing i've seen tops whatever this is. twitter decided to bless my for you feed with this person's art. and i got to say... might be the worst art style i've ever laid eyes on.

Art belongs to https://x.com/ddylan_91
just be warned. their art is somehow getting worse.

 

[Double Taps]

Carly Mazur has a style that makes me mentally vomit. She uses oil paints for hyper realism, which is fine, but then applies out of place textures or objects. It's akin to Bob Ross getting "crazy" by adding a tree over a piece, but in her case the tree fucking sucks.



Styles like these are pretty disappointing. She puts great detail into the flesh, has knowledge of skin tones and anatomy, but does this dumb shit to make it look avant-garde or some kind of "Art Nouveau". I'm too retarded to decipher deep level meaning from a creative standpoint. The only things profound that I can make out is that most of the clothing gives no hint of any definition of the body, so it's acting like a censor. There is some kind of intimate element with the exposed shoulders/neck, hands are always shown so there is an obsession or affinity for touch, or is always experiencing the physical sensations over the others. It just seems weird to put so much time into a piece and go kindergarten mode on the rest of it, almost like disrespecting its perfection in a way? Punish the viewer by making something beautiful, hide half of it with mediocrity. What even is art in 2024.


TLDR: She's a bpd atheist with a hand fetish.

 

[2mm and 99 others]

Why not just paint all the avant-garde shit over a photo or make an oldfashioned collage like the handmade ones people used to make in pre-shoop times? Those who appreciate hyperrealism, mostly don't like the unhinged stuff.

 

[Dollar Store Crack Whore]

I wanna go back and time and kick Jackson Pollock in the nuts. Stuff like this has to be for money laundering, you can't convince me anyone looked at this and thought it was good.

 

[The Lawgiver]

This isn't about "ugly art" per-say but I've noticed a long standing trend in how some people draw fingers and I'm having night thoughts about dumb shit again
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left side is how fingertips tend to be shaped, but a lot of shit over many decades has fingers drawn like the right. No I'm not talking about like the pointy claw finger shit or implication of some kinda fingernail thing some stuff does, or even the grinch's weird hairy green pointy tips. it's more like the finger's just completely flat and is weirdly sloped on the bottom in a way that's almost like a fucking shark head.


Like this, basically, but it's a finger tip not a shark. Like I get it's more than likely just a stylization thing but it's been bugging me tonight specifically cause I was thinking "WHY THE FUCK DO PEOPLE DRAW FINGERTIPS LIKE SHARKS WHAT THE FUCK" after years of being exposed to it and I had to write it down somewhere so the thought stopped haunting me and passed on to whoever reads this.

 

[ChaosReignsOnSomeSaturday]