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| Most "modern Art" Isn't Art At All. |
| Art should convey feelings, tell a story, or show beauty. But art that strikes at tradition ("Elephant dung Mary" and "Jar of urine Jesus" etc.) just because it is tradition isn't art. A political statement, yes, but not art. A monkey throwing paint at a canvas is also not art. If it is, give me a monkey, some fiber, and a canvas, and I'll have some art for you in a minute. |
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At modern art museums, a piece of wood with a nail in it would be considered art. As long as the
"artist" who made it has a crappy story about how it represents the parts in life that are sad |
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Art is all different things to all different tastes.
I can't see why art shouldn't carry a narrative, if that is what the artist wants to portray.
Those artists who display a dustbin full of rubbish do just that. I would rather see something more
enduring that a crumpled up tabloid. |
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SOME modern art has little redeeming quality. Artists still have a right to make it but you also
have your right to speak out against it.
I do agree that elephant dung, boogers, urine, etc. Makes awful art. Did you hear about an artist
in Latin America who chained a stray dog in a studio display and let it starve to death to make a
statement. That's awful art, and actually criminal. You can probably find that story with a quick
net search. |
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Yes.
Fecal matter and urine in a jar and pictures of Deity it is just blasphemous cr@p.
That is not Art: It is profane in the derrogative sense of that word.
That, is spiritual abuse, not Art. |
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Most modern art is absolute rubbish. The classical art forms died out in the 20th century and now we
are left sifting through the rubble, watching fantasists and mountebanks proclaiming themselves
artists. I suppose it represents the ultimate fulfilment of the "artist as a rebel who shocks his
contemporaries" cliche. Eventually, it would culminate in just total clowns who would do nothing but
set out to shock their contemporaries.
Of course, few people voice this opinion for the same reason that no one told the emperor he had no
clothes : They are afraid of being thought foolish or uncultured. There was an interesting
experiment once where a musician who was sceptical of modernism composed a piece that was full of
just random rubbish, incoherent, inharmonious little notes and phrases. He then had it performed and
read the reviews that appeared in the quality press. They were respectful, treating it as a piece of
serious art. |
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Art should be art. Political / religious statements shouldn't hide behind art.
And as far as the monkey... Wait a minute. The fiber is kicking in. Where's the canvas? |
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28 Jul 2008 16:02
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