Fat Art Appreciation

AI is instant and effortless, you ask it what you want and itll give it to you. learning and creating art yourself takes years of effort and practice.

when it comes to depicting fat people or other subjects that maybe looked down upon, wouldnt you rather someone with passion and skill take time out of their life to capture it? for the folds and weight to be deliberate? for the artist to show what they think is beautiful?

i hope youd want fat people to receive art that was lovingly made by human, not a prompt that was given to AI because people couldnt care to create it themself

And it seems like I'm not the only one that shares that sentiment!

That seems rather extreme as the supposedly AI post, which I like, very well may have been created by an actual soulful, passion-filled, and skillful artist who just happened to use some technology assistance. We don’t know but that doesn’t mean that anyone should automatically hate or despise it or deem that it’s not possibly its own form of art. I’m just being practical about it and if you disagree with me that’s fine and your absolute right as an American but let’s be civil about it, OK?

Happy July 4th!

AI seems to taking a leading tone in much of the social media commentary I’m receiving on this with quite a few taking the position that AI works simply cannot be “art” — first off, I do not absolutely know if this is a total AI creation but to be honest I truly don’t care.

New technologies and innovations are constantly being developed In our ever changing world, following in the path of our 19th and 20th century ancestors who gave us steam engines, telegraphs, photography, telephones, cars, airplanes, computers, space travel, and the internet, not to mention amazing medical and biotech health solutions. Did we reject those? Heck no, we celebrated and embraced them!

Yes, I love and celebrate our traditional artists and photographers who grace my blog every day, but I can also appreciate AI-generated or influenced art that is good. And I like this piece a lot as it illustrates and recognizes that many of us Americans are downright FAT and damned proud to be that way! In fact, this version of our majestic Lady Liberty is beautiful and sexy as f**k or so this particular fatty thinks …

On the question of AI possibly not being art, I decided to query the all-knowing (or perhaps not knowing) internet and here is the response I received, attributed to the Houston Law Review:

Yes, AI-generated works can be considered art, functioning much like a paintbrush or camera—a tool for human expression. While AI lacks human emotion, the human creator's intent, prompt engineering, and curation transform outputs into meaningful art.

This illustrates how I always felt in family photos particularly back when I was over 300 pounds with my ample double belly projecting very far out front and not in the least hiding the fact that I was more than twice the weight of everyone else in the pic!

This great photo from 1924 was of the family of the handsome Tom Ton, also known as Happy Val, purportedly the world’s heaviest man at 745 pounds. He joined Ringling Brothers that year but sadly passed two years later at the mere age of 39. He undoubtedly would have had a longer and healthier lifespan today even at the same purported weight.