As a race, we’ve evolved indefinitely to appreciate the aesthetics in almost everything we find around us and recreate them in an abstract way that meets our artistic imagination.
However, there are a few common stereotypes that we come across when we find the artist community around us or watch them being portrayed in a book or a movie.
We’ve listed down the ones which are quite prominent in the 21st century:
The Coffee Addict
The said artist seems to be overdosing on caffeine like there’s no tomorrow. The essence of this caffeine-induced high plays on almost everything we see around the character, from its hair-tied in a messy bun and sipping intermittently on the coffee and talking about coffee beans and texture in Starbucks while working on some new design.
Fashion Sense
More often than not, most characters and people come with an attached sense of highlighting their artistic skills with what they own or wear. A certain colour on the hair or a Van Gogh graphic tee seems to completely fit the idealist notion of people in the community with black-rimmed glasses accentuating their look.
The whole gag on french beard and bourgeois pretentious parade on french novels, culture and language also adds up to this.
Abstract Art Fad
People can’t seem to get enough of colours being thrown on the wall or a canvas.
Even if an artist seems to have drawn or painted without a motive or meaning, the crowd finds it to be their own personal agenda to dissect and derive meaning out of it, which is definitely a positive element but comes with cliché baggage that sounds unnecessarily pompous and pseudo-intellectual.
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Exemplifying Normal For Art
Often, the need to discover and label a generic old piece of furniture or mug as an art has taken precedence over the years. A keen eye for detail and beauty is appreciated, although there is the superfluous appropriation of such objects as art that makes no sense but is layered with commentaries to back their spine as something beyond mediocre.
The Quirky Card
Self-righteous and uncompromising opinions that deal with the quality of art are common characteristics under the said archetype. Being eccentric with a decadent lifestyle of impulsive choices also bears resemblance to artists in terms of this stereotype. And many aim to have a speedy glow-up as new Pinterest icons.
The experimental holier than thou persona with emphasis on aesthetics does reduce your individuality to satisfy the normative beliefs of what constitutes an art and defines an artist.
However, these are just stereotypes and an opinion that does not classify any of it to be negative but highlights what is the common notion today.
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Feature Image designed by Saudamini Seth
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This post is tagged under: Art, Art Forms, Liberal Arts, Art Stereotypes, Pseudo-art, Biased Notions, Artists, Aesthetic, 21st Century, Normative Ideas, Quirky, Fashion, Coffee, Artistic, Different, Pretentious, Pompous, Fad
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