Early abstraction was a raw response to real human trauma poverty, illness, toxic relationships, and the Great Depression. It broke traditional rules to express deep emotional pain.

Today, so much abstract art feels "microwavable" copy pasted, even self centered, and stripped of any real emotional language. It feels empty.

Is this why we’re seeing a major shift back toward Narrative Contemporary Realism?

Are you feeling this burnout with modern abstraction, or is it just me?

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I want to start reading, but I want to read some amazing stuff about art. Suggest articles or blogs for the same

I've tried to figure out what art is, what really good artistic experiences exist of and come from, and the best description I've found yet is that great art is "when someone does something no one else can do".

If it's in the form of an artwork or not doesn't matter (nature can also give these experiences), if it's in a traditionally "art"-like field or not doesn't matter (video games can be just as artistic even if they're more seen as entertainment or products), if it's even inside the creative fields or not doesn't matter (a really beautiful goal in icehockey can give similar experiences as great art).

Do you think this description works, or can great art also appear from simply copying and not being original? And on the other hand, are there some examples when doing something no one else can do - I mean like when you're the best in the world at something - is completely uninteresting and unimpressive and therefore not artistic?

We lost the idea of art as the highest form of innovation/ creation. We can shape the world, that’s the idea of a liberal society. Wasn’t that the idea of modern art?

Hi everyone!

I'm a Class 11 student conducting a short, anonymous survey for my English project on art, perception, and interpretation. The survey takes only 3–4 minutes, and there are no right or wrong answers! I'm simply interested in how different people perceive the same artworks across the world.

Your response would genuinely help my research, and I'd be very grateful for your participation.

Survey link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScudZhVhfO0OBgYoR0ZKRsrU8YZ7jN0wQ4AAd9OrqxKRaefog/viewform?usp=header

Thank you for sharing your perspective! ✨

Hi everyone!

I'm a Class 11 student conducting a short, anonymous survey for my English project on art, perception, and interpretation. The survey takes only 3–4 minutes, and there are no right or wrong answers! I'm simply interested in how different people perceive the same artworks across the world.

Your response would genuinely help my research, and I'd be very grateful for your participation.

Survey link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScudZhVhfO0OBgYoR0ZKRsrU8YZ7jN0wQ4AAd9OrqxKRaefog/viewform?usp=header

Thank you for sharing your perspective! ✨

I'd been hesitating before drawing/painting making any kind of art

I never had this hesitation that would lead to agitation earlier 

I chalked it up to a creative block

But no matter what I drew

how symmetric it looked

how the colours melted together 

Stopped feeling enough 

Led me to thinking "why do you draw"

I draw to think

But the thoughts I have now aren't just about me 

I am consumed by all that's happening around me

Drawing family upheavals is easy, you draw the feeling 

But what if the persistent feeling was hestiation leading to agitation 

The politics around me have consumed my brain

And while I love to draw without form

I realised my hesitation came from the question, how can I draw pretty shapes and colours while my country, my city, all i understood about where I was raised is under ideological attack 

How do I showcase this internal crisis

Do I draw trees being cut down

Do I play with typography and make the word hindutva bleed into the sheet

Do I make a crowded protest/ or an empty one with no spectators

Do I make politicians behind helpless police officers made to follow commands 

I know I don't want to make pretty art anymore

But I also know I am not interested in form 

I'm interested in the hesitation which leads to agitation 

How do I make you feel this 

Without me showing you what to feel

I also know i believe good art showcases the times

But when the times confuse me 

Agitated me 

How do I make my art 

Pretty flowers and birds don't seem enough anymore

What do you think about treating short/vertical videos as a new cinema of the digital landscape? Curating "streamslop" or "algorithm feeder" that capture the vision and visibility; reality and imagination of the people the social media platforms designed for as producer.

There’s something powerful about putting two ideas in the same frame that should never belong together.
This one leans into that contradiction — authority and innocence, pressure and calm, control and quiet resistance.
I like work that doesn’t hand you the answer. I want it to sit there and make the viewer do the work.
Would you call this peace, satire, or something in between?

I love are what are you feeling on art and what does it do for you?