The Artform You Could Live Without

Improv comedy. Thinking about the very best longform show I ever saw and how much more entertaining an NCIS rerun would have been. I appreciate its history in American comedy, but it’s a bit like making calisthenics an Olympic event.

I invented a word for people like that: Macramísts. (From people who practice macramé, of course)

Arts I could live without? too many to name

Arts I would very much prefer to live without?
Rap/Hiphop
Abstract sculpture
Impressionists

The current trend of hyper-realistic drawings (not from life, just basically copying a photo much larger with pens or pencils).

Yay, you’ve painstakingly duplicated a photograph, just like my desktop printer does. Well done, you.

Atonal music.

The ponzi scheme that is Modern Art. See well known plagiarist Damien Hirst and unpleasant weird woman Tracy Emin as examples.

Not sure why my choices are particularly worthy of comment. Those are fairly common targets of distastse.

I do believe the OP was meant to include artforms outside of Arkansas. :wink:

This reminds me of the time I attended a party a friend threw to watch the series finale of “Melrose Place”, even though I’d never seen a single episode of the series. I was spewing a lot of: “How *could *she?!”; “He was always like a son to me!”; “She’s too good for him!”

I had a great time…

In the same vein, people who literally make money by drawing WHAT IF DISNEY PRINCESSES WERE LIVING IN MODERN TIMES articles for BuzzFeed or WHAT IF ANIME CHARACTERS WERE DRAWN LIKE WESTERN CHARACTERS for Kotaku. Basically if your entire art gimmick is taking already existing characters and then just drawing them in a different style/scenario and pretending it’s deep.

Also more to your point, all those Patreon artists who draw anime/video game characters “realistically” and thus they lose all their style/uniqueness.

I’m going big. I don’t like paintings, at all. I have seen a couple of interesting ones, but over all I could do without them. I’ve been to a number of art museums and can’t think of anything off the top of my head that I’ve really liked.

Made for TV movies…I’m looking at you Lifetime, Hallmark, SyFy, etc…

Country and Western music. Is there a less talented group of shitty musicians who sing trite bullshit that wouldn’t be considered original or new if they were recorded 50 years ago? Add in the fact that I strongly dislike most people who enjoy country and western and removing that taint stain of an art form from history would be my very first wish after rubbing the magic lamp.

Speaking of, I’m a little surprised that no one has answered with “anime” yet.

I’ll bite. Along with Pixar-style computer-generated animation, I also wouldn’t miss anime-style animation.

I could do without Dance in any form really.

I agree–even sung in English, I can’t understand lyrics. But worst is the most unnatural, unrealistic art form is ballet. Who dances on tiptoes?

Fashion.

I seem to remember hearing a quote once to the effect that fashion is the only art form so ugly that even its practitioners have to change it every six months.

I’m an opera fan, so I’ll bite: It most likely refers to Siegfried’s death scene in Gotterdammerung, so famous it doesn’t matter who said it. (Wagner’s Ring Cycle is to opera what Lord of the Rings is to literature.)

Another saying from the same opera:

“It ain’t over until the fat lady sings” referring of course to Brunnhilde’s big solo at the end.

I must say, I like all art forms. OK, well, except for fashion. I have zero fashion sense. I don’t particularly notice what people are wearing unless it’s grossly inappropriate, like a bikini at a funeral. So I, for one, could easily do without “fashion.”

Without anime, how would you have hentai? Think, man!

Lightly-clad sprightly bodies prancing about can be fun to watch.

Haters of opera and dramatic ballet have not been exposed to the right pieces in the right places. A last-minute radio announcement drove us to buy standing-room tickets for the Joffrey Ballet’s reconstruction of the Stravinsky / Diaghilev / Nijinsky Le Sacre du printemps. We swayed with impoverished dance students in the San Francisco Opera House’s fringes. Contact high! Feel the beat and become addicted.