Bad Painting and Fake Artists

So, I painted today (as seen above). I am not a painter at all but have been writing a lot lately and needed a break but still wanted to let out some creative energy so I took some kids washable paints and made a pretty ordinary and generic painting, but hey I was happy with it. :) While I was painting I started thinking and getting angry. My housemate Heather is a painter, and she is VERY talented and my housemate Justin is a really good musician and I was thinking how as much as technology has opened up so many new fields and doors for artists its also allowed pretty talentless people to get credit for creating 'art'. Music is a huge example. With music mixing software you don't really have to know how to play anything if you know what sounds good you can use the computer to create the sounds of an 8 piece band while in your pj's picking your nose. With digital photography you can make most any picture cropped, colored, and focused to perfection. You don't have to know how to sing to sound good on a cd ect. I am not saying these things aren't useful or that all people who use technology to create these types of art are all talentless but if amazing musicians, painters, photographers were creating beauty without technology years before are we really all that good if we need technology to reach those heights?

P.S "How Hemingway Went" short,short by me will be up later tonight.

Bad Painting
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