[tablespoon]

> Cringe doesn't mean bad - I would say 90% of Jim'll paint it is cringe and awesome https://jimllpaintit.tumblr.com/

There are different kinds of cringe though.

Also, Jim'll paint it definitely looks like he's more talented than Beeple.

> And having 5000 daily pieces is art by itself.

Quantity over quality?

[viraptor]

> Quantity over quality?

No, performance art. The act of creating that many not-terrible pieces is meaningful on its own.

[alpaca128]

Well, "not-terrible" is not what I would use to describe this though. Then again I'm not a fan of "you just don't understand this random mix of poo and paint" kind of art. No, I don't get why for example 5000 digital scribbles are more valuable or meaningful than 5000 random posts from deviantart. Or Dilbert comic strips or most recent memes on Reddit, which at least are funny at times. How is this act of creating subpar images supposedly more meaningful than a hoarder's decades-long collection of stuff in their home?

Am I wrong to find creations less valuable when I cannot enjoy them? Call it performance art or whatever else you like, it's still nothing more than an overpriced collection of an artist's shitposts. But alright, it's not my money.

[jjeaff]

Except they are all pretty terrible.

[flycaliguy]

Yes but they did grow into a hugely popular Instagram account so let’s let this age a bit. Frankly I find people with the assumption that it won’t age well to be the most pretentious in the room.

[yellowapple]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Whether I want to associate with said beholder is another question entirely.

[TeMPOraL]

> Quantity over quality?

Isn't focusing on quantity the only reliable way to improve quality? See also, the usual Ira Glass quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/309485-nobody-tells-this-to....

[chevill]

Becoming a great artist usually means creating art every day. It depends on how you go about creating art though. You need focused studies. You need to push your boundaries. There's a shockingly low amount of technical improvement in this artist's work compared to other long-term online portfolios I've seen.

[throwanem]

Focusing on quality is the only reliable way to improve quality. The use of quantity, in the "10,000 hours" or "2000 words a day, every day" style of formulation, is to provide ample opportunity for practice and improvement, but quantity alone never can suffice. With no focus on quality, all it gets you is the same work over and over.

[spoonjim]

If you throw a ball at a target 10,000 times you will get more accurate even if you don’t do any deliberate thinking about your mechanics.

[throwanem]

Not everything is as easy as throwing a ball.

[perl4ever]

There's a writer who did a lot of short stories and I had read a couple of them decades ago and thought they were some of the best of all time. Also, they won awards and stuff. I really placed them on a pedestal.

But more recently, I found that a multivolume collection of all the short stories is available, and I started reading them. It was really disillusioning because it wasn't just that the average quality was a lot lower than the famous ones, the cringeworthiness started to extend to my image of the author.

It's possible that over time the later work ended up being uniformly brilliant, but I didn't finish.

[SiempreViernes]

Sure, but the point of the practice is to produce quality, and then display the good bits of your production because mixing the few good ones into the deludge of average works isn't very helpful for the audience.

[perl4ever]

It's just a fact that people sometimes are interested in artists as well as or more than the art they make. The not-so-great art may not be of interest to you, or some particular artist may not want to release it, but it seems to me that probably some people want something more comprehensive for similar reasons that they may read biographies.

I'm indifferent to Michelangelo's art, but I have read The Agony and the Ecstasy. In this particular case, a less filtered view of his art doesn't disillusion me because I'm not especially crazy about any of it. But he was famous, influential, and technically capable, so as a person was of interest to me.

[scsilver]

Like no artists have released behind the scenes work or b-sides.

[SiempreViernes]

Not as their main work no, the very concept of b-side implies there is an a-side that has been more carefully curated.