When and why did art become more about ideas than about

>>1359633
About the time photography obviated technique.

Art isn't about ideas, it's about being avant-garde. Avant-garde is the sum of valued content. Whether that is an idea or a feeling or just something that looks avant-garde doesn't really matter.

It happened when sculpture and painting were divorced from architecture.

The reason is that art and beauty stopped having a role in everyday life as people became more focused on utility.

Now art needs to have some extrinsic purpose to justify its existence rather than existing for its own sake. It has to make a political statement or drive "progress" in some way. Things that merely look nice do not hold much value in our society and people tend not to spend time on things that society doesn't not value.

dadaism

>>1359661
Dada is anti-dada tho.

>>1359633
To give artists more social capital. I blame the Marxists for the current state of affairs.

>>1359633
About the time technique reached the point of photo realism and additionally when photography entered the stage.

Technique can only go so far before its only way to move forward is by relying on a relativist idea.

Always.

It's anything that this kind of discussion can be had over.


Cave paintings drew animals more accurately than humans. We already knew that technique was one thing, and talent was another.

>>1359659
Well put.