I appreciate that this is for a worthy cause, but I dislike these artistic trends. I am an amateur artist. Good art has elements of craftsmanship, order, and intentional application of media. Not the relentless pursuit of shock value (for instance, in London several years ago they exhibited paintings that were smears of the artist's feces).
I have a friend who is a professional artist, and he is sick of his paintings losing in contests to submissions that are literally made out of garbage. It's frustrating.
At least most abstract artists don't seem to use their bodily wastes for "artwork", but at the rate things are going - what will artists resort to for shock value 20 years from now?
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