This is an angry ramble from my Middle School time period in response to Precisionism and the art styles it pioneered.

Art is nothing more than an ancient way for people to show power. Art is a waste of time that will divert people’s attention from more important things. This is understood very well by the anonymous street artist Banksy who expressed these beliefs by shredding one of his most famous paintings just as it was sold. The art itself is not a problem but rather its community is.

              The art collecting community is nothing more than a group of grown people who like to flaunt their money, and this has resulted in art becoming pieces of work that require even less effort becoming popular and being sold at even more dramatic price-tags. If you look back into history, you will see that art has always been a luxury for the bourgeoisie. Rich kings and rulers would use art to show off their power and this idea that art=power seems to still be as present as ever.

              Art also serves no real purpose. Art does nothing more than divert a potential ergonomist’s interests to something less productive. In my research I found one reason as to why the visual arts are not a complete waste of time, creativity. Although this is not wrong, there are also other more productive ways of fostering creativity such as robotics or writing. Other forms of art are useful, but wasting precious time doodling an interpretation of human emotion does nothing to benefit society. Instead, it helps to feed a gluttonous group of power-hungry rich people.