She just really wanted to touch some dried paint on a canvas

Jun 26, 2019 7:49 AM

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Sauce: https://andhumanslovedstories.tumblr.com/post/185774941086/im-very-excited-for-my-latest-craft-experiment

The thumbnail looked like a backing tray full of crushed cheetos

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Okay now go read the Wikipedia page on Jackson Pollock. Congrats, you don't hate modern art, anymore.

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Nope...still do.

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Didn't think I'd be this interested watching paint dry

7 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 0

I approve of this post.

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

They should put this in a museum so people can touch it

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I get it honestly. As a texture person with food I get made fun of a ton for not eating certain things. I'd find an art exhibit of these fun

7 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

"I rather watch paint dry" doesn't sound so scathing now.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

OP: *Slaps sale rank oil paint onto canvas* "I wonder how much texture can fit into this bad boy?

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I remember this argument in music appreciation. “Is it art?” Stfu. Did you experience it? Did it make you ______? Good. Now shut up.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Textures, gradients, shadows and highlights, a beautiful, sharp, tapered ink line, the sensuality of clay, the fracturing of stone. ART!!

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I hope they donate a painting to a school for the blind.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The painter sounds like he would be a great friend lol

7 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

The fact that you had the patience to wait for this bad boy to totally dry is art itself. Brava!

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The title of his handprint canvas has me DEAD.

7 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

A station of this sort should be available in every museum, so that they can people can feel & know what they are seeing. Really cool!

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The thing is it's not very durable which is why you shouldn't touch them. The Ashmolean in Oxford, UK has a demonstration of this.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It can be built to be more durable & touched up every once in awhile. I understand the concept of canvas art, it’s not complicated.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

But if you make an exhibition with this specific purpose then it is performance art and the change over time is audience participation

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Art for the blind

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

babyorchidaceae is completely right. Art is about context. Hornyness could be one of them. Justified concept art.

7 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

There are Rembrandts and Titians which have oil paint that is still not completely dried out

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Person wants to touch painting. Person decides to paint and then touch it. Hardly pushing the boundaries of what art is

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Art is changing how people think. Which is why a lot of weird things only counts as art the first time it is done. IMO this is art.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The reason this guy painted this is a better reason that most modern artists have. Its serious art ?

7 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 3

Agreed. This concept should be expanded and made into an exhibit. I would love to go

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"Chaotic good"

7 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Neutral

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Use a drying medium if you want to work faster with oils, some paintings can take years to completely cure.

7 years ago | Likes 185 Dislikes 6

Yes, Japan Drier is pretty great stuff.

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

i can attest to this, i made my own impasto medium once with sawdust and mixed it in with some linseed oil and spirits into oil paint, 1/

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

laid down an under-colour with some of it, 17 years later still waiting to lay the second coat. 2/2

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

This is why I smoke my paintings with beach wood.

7 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

SMOKE IT IN WOOD

7 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Does all the sand in the wood add to the terrior of the smoke ring?

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I smoke my paintings like the last guy, to get high

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Like, SO high

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

So incredibly high.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What about a fan? Can I put it in front of a fan and just sit there and breath in the fumes? Because that's why I paint. To get high.

7 years ago | Likes 98 Dislikes 5

Oil paints don't really "dry", there's no solvent used, its the oil polymerizing into a plastic-like solid, which takes time.

7 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Jesus just drink cocaine like the rest of us

7 years ago | Likes 112 Dislikes 1

I'm a Highpster.

7 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 1

Then become an alcoholic like a self-respecting bohemian.

7 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 1

I don't really have a comment but I just want you to know that your comment is really good.

7 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 1

That’s the turpentine for the clean up. Oil paint is just pigment and plant-based oil.

7 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I dunno, ochre always made me feel really weird

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's like I enjoy watching the grass grow on my lawn. And far more preferable/interesting than football on the telly.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Thick acrylics would have been better, you can get similar textures but they dont take forever to dry

7 years ago | Likes 74 Dislikes 3

Acrylics flatten as they dry though. It would be a lot more work to get this texture

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This person is clearly concerned with authenticity!

7 years ago | Likes 45 Dislikes 1

But do they feel like dried oil paints?

7 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 2

Pretty close tbh

7 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 4

Not a fan myself, I like painting with oils bc how long they take to dry, lets me torture the model into staying still longer

7 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 2

Yea but acrylic looks like shit compared to oil

7 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 4

And decolors when dried.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I thought they said it was a Kraft experiment and this was some kind of new age macaroni art.

7 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Well it IS the color of the cheese dust in the package.

7 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

My thoughts exactly

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This would be really cool to have at the entrance to a museum different types of paint so people can feel the textures of the paintings

7 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

I would happily pay to go to a full exhibit made by this person with everything being touchable

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Museums for children do it all the time. I wonder why they think we stop seeking tactile input when we grow up?

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I mean, learning to keep your hands to yourself doesn't mean you stop wanting to touch things; you just know you're unwelcome in most cases.

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

"for reasons I can't entirely articulate" = "because I am high"

7 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 2

i am stone cold sober and wanna touch thick oil paint because i wanna know what it feels like

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Dead on

7 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Here’s a bunch of reasons why I like this. Why do I like this?

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

They said they can't entirely articulate the reasons, not can't articulate any at all.

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I'm not convinced that the artist doesn't have freakishly large hands, that could be a big coffee mug placed close to the camera.

7 years ago | Likes 503 Dislikes 4

I'm an artist, and I have freakishly large hands.

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Oh no! Its ajit pai!!!!

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

7 years ago | Likes 50 Dislikes 0

We need a banana for scale

7 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Paige no!

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I mean you need a huge coffee mug when you've got gorilla hands obviously

7 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

tru dat

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Do you know why gorillas have such big nostrils?

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Because they have big fingers

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"Artist"?

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 7

He used a medium, and put it on a canvas. That constitutes art. Anyone who produces any kind of art whether “good” or not is an artist.

7 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

Art takes time and effort. Wanting to see how paint feels after it dries is nifty of them, but this isn't art. You'd stare at a rock on a

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 6

pedestal and think it's art if a showroom told you it was?

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 5

You’re thinking back to a time when there were actual artists that required some iota of talent or authenticity. 2019: Participation trophy.

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 4

Idk. It’s not art it the sense of creating something and making a masterpiece, but texture is part of art. Sculptures, carvings, sure it’s

7 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

What isn't art

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This person is creating a new form of art, we're calling this their "I wanna touch the art but it's behind glass so I made my own" era.

7 years ago | Likes 38 Dislikes 2

Textured art is often used aimed at kids already, but an adult version would be cool. Novelty would run out quick tho.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Call it "tactile art" and set up an exhibition!

7 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

It's accessible to blind people

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

And kids!

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Set up a museum display called "Good Touching" and feature art meant to be touched.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If it was silicon or aluminium it would just be a curiosity project, but suddenly because it includes materials used in art it..

7 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

I disagree. Art is mainly about pushing the limits of how people think. This post has definitely changed my perception of art for good

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Art isn't about anything, or rather it's about too many things to quantify. Art can be as simple as an outlet for a creative urge.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Plenty of art pushes no limits. Floristry is just decorative, that's art. Clothes, music, still art even if not groundbreaking at all.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Apparently qualifies as art. Art is a communication form. IMO she wasn't communicating anymore than if she was doing a body scrub or facial.

7 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 3

She communicated "I want to touch the art" on the internet, so... maybe art?

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well first; I was making a joke. Second; Art isn't just communication, l'art pour l'art, as they say. beauty doesn't need to be visual.

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yeah, beauty can be an experience.. which is communicated to you somehow

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This post is hilarious but that person is deranged. “You rotten bastards scared of the hands your minds gave me” absolute gem

7 years ago | Likes 1962 Dislikes 10

7 years ago | Likes 111 Dislikes 2

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7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

That part of the post was the only reason I gave this thing

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Agreed. Had to read it twice to be sure that's really what they were implying.

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Perception is all about reality.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not deranged at all, that is amazing phrasing and I'm jealous of her motives and follow-through.

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I meant she was deranged because she said she was horny to touch the paint

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

She means the frighteningly large hands were a figment of the viewers imagination all along, a made up monster if you will

7 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

I wasn’t confused as to the meaning, I was enjoying the musicality of it

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Has me kinda frightened, not gonna lie

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Idk, I kinda love the phrase "scared of the x your mind gave me"

7 years ago | Likes 160 Dislikes 0

I said that was a gem. The deranged part is being “all horned up to touch the paint”

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It's oddly very poetic

7 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 0

Time to meme or anime

7 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

People were questioning the size of the hands of the "bongo drum" piece, since they imagined the canvas was big, the hand prints seemed big

7 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 2

Thanks but I wasn’t confused about that

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

1/2With no punctuation, I’m trying to figure what she meant. Is SHE scared of the ... their minds gave her, or is she accusing THEM of

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

2/2 ...being scared of the ... their minds gave her? Side point: can we start using punctuation again?

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"Stop talking about my hands, you rotten bastards, who are scared of the large hands that you imagined I have."

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Thank you.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I know a guy with big hands and every time I see him I comment on his monkey paws.

7 years ago | Likes 44 Dislikes 3

King Kong dick beaters?

7 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 0

uwu

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

There was a man once who had one hand much smaller than the other. He made many people laugh but not because of his tiny strong hand

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I have really long fingers. My boss used to call me banana-hands. It is hurtful, but it really rolls off your tongue.

7 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Have you tried making a wish on them?

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Careful with that

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

He wasn't willing to let me try but I did explain the concept of a monkey paw to him.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm sure he's always happy to see you.

7 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Oddly enough he is we have a good time together

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It sounds like something the kind of person who'd buy paint and canvas just to touch it would say.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Every artist is deranged. "Normal" people don't do the 'art' thing.

7 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 3

I downvoted you because I was like "but I love art and I'm not deranged" but then I remembered I am actually. But deranged is harsh, we /1

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Creative types prefer terms such as "neurotic", "eccentric", or "fuckin weird"

7 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I generally go with "eerie-ass dorko" when describing me and my other art friends, myself

7 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I had a coworker who spoke like this all the time. Big sentences that they think are super poetic but really aren't. 1/2

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

She was also an artist but her "art" was about decapitating stuffed toys and sowing different heads onto them.

7 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Sowing? Did she sprinkle them in the fields of the dead?

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So...like Sid in Toy Story?

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0