This does not look substantially different from the stuff I was making when it was 1985 and I had a brand new copy of Deluxe Paint on my Amiga.
Actually wait no I think I was actually trying to think about making something pleasant to look at instead of randomly spotting around the default colors with the airbrush. This is idle doodling, at best. Experiments with the tool being sold for a ludicrously high price, because she was in the gallery system and there were a bunch of rich idiots who might be willing to pay that.
Looking around her site she does appear to have some actual skills at composition, palettes, and painting, but they are not on display here in the least.
Interesting. I'd say picking the right colors, textures and shapes to make a group of people feel nostalgic about video games that don't exist, that takes real skill.
It sounds like this art didn't do anything for you. But it did for others. This[1] didn't do anything for me either. But I sure as hell wouldn't be selfish enough to say it's not art.
Did I say this isn’t art? No. I said it looks like someone who just got a new tool fucking around with it, and that it looks much like what everyone who just got a copy of Deluxe Paint 2 tended to create. You make some patterns, you pick up some chunks of art and drag them around as brushes, you do some perspective fills. All this needs is some color cycling and it’s hit all the cliches of “I just got Deluxe Paint”.
And thanks for trying to turn this into a personal argument by dissing my own work. Very classy. I’d think someone swiping the name of a dead Expressionist would be all for my animation-influenced distortions or anatomy in the name of expressiveness, but whatever.
So, while individual pieces are fairly simplistic (and even amateurish, to a technical artist), taken as a whole they create a context and evoke a mood -> impressionism!
Yeah, that's one way to understand it (though I wouldn't call this impressionism).
At the most human level, I'd say if someone connects with it, it's art. I did connect with these pieces so was bummed to see someone insulting them -- and an artist, no less.
