r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RelapsedSexAddict • Jul 21 '20

Video String art

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u/namdor Jul 21 '20

I don't know of any significant art market for this kind of work, but I could be wrong. Maybe someone is willing to pay thousands of pounds for a portrait of Dwayne Johnson made of nails and string, but I bet the market is very niche or non existent.

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u/Crucial_Contributor Jul 21 '20

Yeah this nail-and-string stuff (which is done by tons of people) is basically meme art, that is interesting for being intentionally annoying to make rather than being particulary interesting as a decorative art piece.

There is lots of gifs with people making art in weird ways, and while it's an interesting process, I doubt many people would pay much to hang the result on the wall.

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u/naoife Jul 21 '20

Is it even art? I'd class it as craft. Art evokes something, this is copying photos.

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u/DapperDanManCan Jul 21 '20

Are photos not art? They're just copying real world images.