silverpig
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It's stupid. I went to the art gallery here. There was some good stuff by the old dutch artists. Paintings of flowers and fruit bowls etc. Not my cup of tea, but I can definitely respect the talent required for that. Then I went to the modern section. Broken tvs sitting in stacks of tires... paint splattered all over the place... There was a red board leaning against a wall. Yeah, a board, painted red, leaning against the wall. WTF.
I was watching some show (60 minutes I think) where they had kindergartners do some paintings and put them on display with "artists" paintings. It was funny to watch the "experts" talk about how much skill the "artists"(kindergartners) had.
Really? Do most people talk to the artist that painted the paintings they pay big bucks for?
I expected you might have a better explanation like it has to do with the thoughts/ emotions felt when individuals view the piece.
Allow me to elaborate -
Where would we be today if artists, musicians, dancers, actors just did the same stuff as before? Where would we be without people who let go of the archaic figure drawings and let their own person take over? Where would we be without some of the avant garde actor movements in history? We'd still be scared of the edge of a flat earth, and we'd probably be way behind on acting as we laugh at Leave It To Beaver jokes.
Whether you like the work or not, it is changing the world around you.
Edit: Let me just say that I don't find this guy's work at all amusing, or even interesting, but I do respect what it is and what he is doing.
Where would we be today if artists, musicians, dancers, actors just did the same stuff as before? Where would we be without people who let go of the archaic figure drawings and let their own person take over? Where would we be without some of the avant garde actor movements in history? We'd still be scared of the edge of a flat earth, and we'd probably be way behind on acting as we laugh at Leave It To Beaver jokes.
Whether you like the work or not, it is changing the world around you.
Edit: Let me just say that I don't find this guy's work at all amusing, or even interesting, but I do respect what it is and what he is doing.
I'm going to staple my dirty underwear to a piece of plywood, then very carefully crate and ship it to the metropolitan museum of art with a torn, unreadable invoice. I wonder what they'd do.
Modern art is not about beauty, skill, accuracy, or profound meaning.
It's about making a quick buck from people with too much moeny for their own good.
Modern art is like modern society, only more honest; it is cynical, dissillusioned, greatly inferior to what came before it, creates with simplistic forms and shapes that even the lower primates could master, cares virtually nothing for beauty and elegance except to mock it, and is more concerned with the price of the final product than anything else at all relating to it.
It might as well come with 50 foot flaming letters, screaming "True Art is dead!!" The ultimate goal of all moderm art is the same message that we all seem to agree on; it's complete and utter sh!t,but will fetch thousands to millious of dollars... for no reason whatsoever.
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It's about making a quick buck from people with too much moeny for their own good.
Modern art is like modern society, only more honest; it is cynical, dissillusioned, greatly inferior to what came before it, creates with simplistic forms and shapes that even the lower primates could master, cares virtually nothing for beauty and elegance except to mock it, and is more concerned with the price of the final product than anything else at all relating to it.
It might as well come with 50 foot flaming letters, screaming "True Art is dead!!" The ultimate goal of all moderm art is the same message that we all seem to agree on; it's complete and utter sh!t,but will fetch thousands to millious of dollars... for no reason whatsoever.
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Perpetrating a fad based fruad for class distinction? I wouldn't call it a fraud if the people who were drinking what he is selling could tell the difference between a few kindergartners splashing some paint and a modern art "masterpiece".
Who are you to decide that his work is done for anyone besides himself? You assume that all modern artists are doing work because they are in it to win some quick cash, and that is incredibly ignorant. I agree that many 'artists' out there are doing this at the moment, but there is no need to generalize about something like this - especially when you are in no place to do so.
Point 1) Not all artwork is done for you or the public.
Point 2) Not all artwork needs to look 'good' to be 'good'.
Point 3) Shh.
The reason modern art exists is so that "art lovers" can put their nose in the air and tell the rest of us who think it's stupid how we're inferior to them, and that if we were their equal we'd understand.
It's mental masturbation.
It's mental masturbation.
1. OK take out the artist intentions/ feelings
2. Now all you have is buyers who in general know nothing of the artist intentions dictating what is good art. Why? Class didstinction. The same for "delicacies". Find something rare and therefore expensive even though it taste like ass and call yourself sophisticated as you choke the sh!t down while discussing with your peers all the aspects of the flavor. :roll:
I'm an art fan but modern art is indeed a fruad.
James3shin
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