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Are you saying modern art is positive?
by gigatree 23d ago
Are you saying modern art is positive?
- math-man 23d agoDo you not appreciate art?
- NordStreamYacht 23d agoI like bananas. https://www.npr.org/2024/11/21/nx-s1-5199568/a-duct-taped-banana-sells-for-6-2-million-at-an-art-auction https://www.npr.org/2024/11/21/nx-s1-5199568/a-duct-taped-ba...
- innis226 23d agoOkay, this is a bit too far xD. But I wouldn’t put this in the same bucket as Pollock. I genuinely find his work interesting.
- NordStreamYacht 23d agoModern art is weird. https://smarthistory.org/andres-serrano-piss-christ/ https://smarthistory.org/andres-serrano-piss-christ/
- evanjrowley 23d agoThat's postmodern art, not modern art.
- soulofmischief 23d agoI agree. All I see here is someone following in the footsteps of pioneers such as Andy Warhol. His own pink banana was very polarizing in his time.
- andrewmlevy 23d agorelevant! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM4tPXaLYz8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM4tPXaLYz8
- evanjrowley 22d agoAndy Warhol - also a postmodernist
- soulofmischief 22d agoYes, I called him a pioneer.
- evanjrowley 23d agoThat's postmodern art, not modern art.
- NordStreamYacht 23d agoSo that's a post-banana?
- bigstrat2003 23d agoI love art. Contemporary art is a bunch of ugly wankery by pretentious people who are bored of actual beauty and can only amuse themselves by creating ugly stuff, then claiming "you just don't get it". The world would be a significantly better place without contemporary art in it.
- wredcoll 23d agoIf there is any change I could make to the human personality at large it would be the reflexive opinion that anything you don't understand, or even dislike, is automatically morally wrong.
- neuroticnews25 23d agoThere is nothing to understand, bunch of jerks signaling sophistication or laundering money while poisoning the soul of men.
- dgellow 23d agoThe conflation of art with the art market is a good litmus test…
- neuroticnews25 23d agoThe art that sucks but sells is arguably more excusable then the art that just sucks.
- wredcoll 22d agoThis might shock you, but most art is made by artists. Artists also tend to spend lots of their time consuming other art. This informs the type of art they create. Here's an anecdote: Pablo Picasso learned to paint realistic scenes, including humans, the equivalent of Da Vinci or Michelangelo, around the age of 17 or 18. Where do you go from there? In his case, he went towards cubism and other such "modern art". Why do you suppose that is?
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- al_borland 23d agoShould we appreciate art we were manipulated into liking, or pretending to appreciate? Modern art has been the butt of many jokes over the years. A canvas painted white, a banana duck taped to a wall, literal piles of trash… the bar for what we call art is basically on the floor. A literal bar on the floor, given a good story, could itself be called art. Art generally implies some level of skill. While some modern art can still fall into that category, other stuff requires no real skill, just the right connections and for enough people to buy into the grift.