i like to draw and paint in my spare time.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (support base). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used. Painting is a mode of creative expression, and the forms are numerous. Drawing, gesture (as in gestural painting), composition, narration (as in narrative art), or abstraction (as in abstract art), among other aesthetic modes, may serve to manifest the expressive and conceptual intention of the practitioner. Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in a still life or landscape painting), photographic, abstract, narrative, symbolistic (as in Symbolist art), emotive (as in Expressionism), or political in nature (as in Artivism). A portion of the history of painting in both Eastern and Western art is dominated by spiritual motifs and ideas. Examples of this kind of painting range from artwork depicting mythological figures on pottery, to Biblical scenes rendered on the interior walls and ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, to scenes from the life of Buddha or other images of Eastern religious origin. In art, the term \"painting \"describes both the act and the result of the action.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I used to do a fair bit of drawing and painting, but I really haven't done much art in recent years."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh that's really cool. I love looking at art! I've been to a local art museum and it was beautiful."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I also like art. I worry about a lot of artists these days though... I see a real lack of technial skill because of a lack of objective standards in art schools."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, I think these days, people will consider anything \"art\" and that's just not the way it used to be."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "There has been an erosion of focus on actual skills of illustration and painting. So much of new art is focused on the message but forgets to focus on the quality."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow, you literally took the thoughts out of my head! I wonder how art will be in the future, considering how it is now?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I think that art is an ongoing river of creativity. This current state of malaise is weak and eventually will be outcompeted by a stronger trend of talented artists."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I certainly hope you are right about that. The great thing about art, it will never fully die."}]