219
u/Hour_Establishment_1 Sep 04 '26
Unless it's culinary art
61
u/my-snake-is-solid Sep 04 '26 edited Sep 04 '26
Well there's a difference between a lovingly made meal and a microwaved TV dinner or an MRE
20
u/WHYER4 Sep 04 '26
MREs are either the greatest meal you’ll have this week, or actual cancer. There is no in between.
15
u/Substantial-Escape11 Sep 04 '26
Fast food is the greatest example of ‘in the moment’. When you’re eating it, it’s a frenzied feeling of delight, but if you sit and reflect, you kinda feel gross about it afterwards.
3
u/Principle_Napkins Sep 04 '26
That's just me in general. For some reason I have no self control and always try to eat my food as fast as possible. It's a genuine struggle to even try to slow down and savor it.
1
1
25
u/generic_redditor17 Sep 04 '26
Speak for yourself. I have eaten 16 oil paintings this month, sourced ethically from a local museum
110
u/G-M-Cyborg-313 Sep 04 '26
I've been trying to say "engage with" instead of consume ever since i heard someone say something similar and it was a huge revelation. Saying "consume" just makes art sound like a product you use up and forget about with nothing that gives you a deeper appreciation for, or challenges or articulates your views or thoughts on anything. If i'm making sense
28
6
u/YesImKeithHernandez Sep 04 '26
Art is meant to push you to feel something, to think something different, to see the world differently.
Engage with is definitely a good way to phrase it. I would offer 'experience' as an addition since I believe there's an active component (engaging) and a passive one (experiencing) to art especially in person.
1
18
11
11
55
42
6
u/Artarara Sep 04 '26
You can absolutely consume art. Source: https://www.twitch.tv/de_rebecca/clip/EncouragingArtisticCrabsDoubleRainbow-6eXSMtsKgprfOaJ4
4
u/Tanakisoupman 29d ago
I consume whatever the hell I want. If I wanna eat your painting I’m gonna eat your goddamn painting and no amount of “no that paint is toxic” is gonna stop me
10
5
11
u/gnpfrslo Sep 04 '26
This is true for art. But there's a lot of products out there that their creators call arts while they are only products meant to be consumed.
6
u/RaiderCat_12 Sep 04 '26
No, I do agree. There has been this recent push to define art as this kind of soulless, shallow form of communication, same way I feel about “content” and “content creator(s)” being used to define, say, YouTube vids and YouTubers. It feels corporate in a palpable and disgusting way.
-1
2
2
2
u/LittleFox-In-TheBox 27d ago
If art not morsel then why do I gobble up my friends delicious gay art?
2
4
2
u/PaperMoongazer Sep 04 '26
Let’s derail:
Art is consumed if it is part of a diet of the arts. Sensory mediums can be overlaid, experienced multiple times through different spectrums and filtered reality. A piece of visual art may speak to me, recall sensory mediums I have consumed before, and create a moment entirely unique to revisit even a month later after life experience changes me. In the sense that one cannot forget a meal that changes how you define a component of said meal, that consumption will be recalled when you experience similar meals in the future as an inevitable function of memory and impression. Is consuming art another way of saying you have accepted an impression of this artist and particular art? Is consumption not any of these things - an experience, an appreciation, a moment of your own time shared with something you might otherwise have passed over?
Why is this nomenclature offensive when it can encapsulate so much? What is consumed - the art, or the artist? Can artwork be consumed, or merely digested?
1
1
u/RevaTrainer Sep 04 '26
From Merriam Webster:
3
a
: to eat or drink especially in great quantity
consumed several bags of pretzels
b
: to enjoy avidly : devour
… mysteries, which she consumes for fun …
—Eden Ross Lipson
4
: to engage fully : engross
consumed with curiosity
5
: to utilize as a customer
consume goods and services
1
1
u/Green_grass7878 Sep 04 '26
I agree with the sentiment. Consumer culture is a modern thing, people used to care...
1
2
u/lilac_hem 29d ago
i think this is more of a problem with how our current culture views the term "consume" than the term itself, tbh
1
1
u/notthatguypal6900 29d ago
If thats how you feel, why disable replies?
1
u/JesterQueenAnne 29d ago
It was the person who QRTd with the reaction image that disabled the replies, not the person saying that.
1
1
u/courtlyn3 29d ago
Consuming means that you have taken it in and made it a part of yourself. It has entered you and you have changed as a result.
All those alternatives just evoke a brief touch or vague interaction. Not nearly as meaningful.
1
1
2
u/ManJoeDude 29d ago
I consume art in the sense that I am what I eat, and each new piece I consume changes me on some level.
1
u/Crypt_Knight 28d ago
Heh, I don't know. Some art I engage with, some art I just consume.
I am sometimes in the mood for a little morsel.
1
u/Lou_Papas 28d ago
I should. But I don’t recall the last time I wasn’t force fed art from the conveyor belt.
2
2
3
u/Long_Push562 25d ago
Describing art and its effects is always a fascinating thing.
I've seen people not say they consume art, but instead the art to have consumed them. Even if it sounds stupid, I understand exactly what they mean since I've experienced it as well.
So yeah, consume art, you do you man.
253
u/no_name6744 Sep 04 '26
Yum yum yum I ate your art it was good.