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How many of those art degree holders could even design such a knocker today? This is way different from just producing Rorschach images or clumping-together-random-stuff “sculptures”.
Zbrush and a 3d printer could fix that. But you would need something heavy on the ring bottom to knock properly.
Or add a sensor to detect movement and inform your homeassistant.They want the AI to create the left one, then blame artists for the right one.
The reason behind the change is industrialization. The right one is just a regular handle with wider appeal, the left one needs more specialized equipment and is only applicable to people wanting that style of handle, not a handle of function.
I like the right one better.
I would be shocked if simple door knockers weren’t common side-by-side with the ornate door knockers throughout history. But being simpler and of a lower quality, they would neither be as notable nor endure until today.
Why are we censoring usernames
What about censoring useless?
Why are people censoring at all?!
It is weird internet compulsion people have. “Oh no I better protect the identity of this person who posted a public comment on a public platform.”
Have won in cost, and have lost in cost.
Does the one on the left keep the religious loonies away?
See? Just needs good marketing in capitalism
Anti-mormon door knocker
No, art is better these days.
Like for hundreds of years shit like this was peak
“We can only draw 2D from the side”, like a third grader. People had to invent persepctive some thousand years later. Come on, just draw what you see, how hard can it be? Or did everybody just walk like Mario all the time and that is just what artists were seeing? I mean, Egypt is like a 2D country along the Nile, so maybe they just didn’t know any better. Being ancient Egyptian meant being constantly trapped in a scroll platformer.
SMH.
Hundreds!
My take is that capitalism is the cause.
Hard to justify buying the nicer door knocker when you don’t even own the house you are renting.
There’s a beauty in simplicity
But aren’t people with art degrees the ones designing the new sterile, soulless things?
No that’s the industrial designer who only gets a budget to make it functional and mass producible.
That’s because the people signing their paltry checks demand it.
Then demand something else as a customer.
Not how any of that works, but good try?
It’s exactly how that works
No, the dominant factor in the world is profitability. It doesn’t matter what the demand for beautiful things is, the things that are the most profitable that most people will buy will dominate. Lowest common denominator type stuff.
Artful things cost more to produce than simple geometric shapes. So, in order for the artful things to have the same profitability as the simple things, they have to cost more money. Costing more means that less people will buy it, so it actually needs to cost even more to remain competitive. Bish bash bosh, beautiful becomes synonymous with wealth and then it needs to compete with the trendy expensive things that the wealthy buy. If this is how the world works, then you’d expect things like this to be common among the wealthy in times of it being a trend. Otherwise, you’d expect it to be niche or old.
(Looks out at the world) Yep, elaborate knockers are out of fashion, and all of the rest are niche or old. Interesting, that.
That knocker is almost perfect
There just needs to be an even tinnier knocker in the tiny demon’s mouth
We’re censoring “useless” now?
Censoring causes engagement.
I hate that minimalist designs aren’t acknowledged as artistic.
In my opinion, it is no different than the ai idiots who think all art needs to be hyperrealistic; That good art is hyperrealistic.
When you alnost can’t have anything but ‘minimalism’ (not sure if most of the things that you can get count as minimalist and not just extremely utilitarian) it kind of destroys the feeling.
Idk, I am not an artist or anything. I just look at stuff and like different things in different moments and settings, like everyone else.
I am just sick of the disrespect for art in general. I am not a good critic but I am good enough to acknowledge that art is not only made for me and my taste.
(not sure if most of the things that you can get count as minimalist and not just extremely utilitarian)
Definitely utilitarian. Stuff that’s actually minimalist requires thoughtful design and precision construction and is therefore actually pretty fucking expensive.
