Why is Modern Art so Bad? (video)

YouTube.com ^ | 9-1-2014 | PragerUniversity

[servo1969]

For two millennia, great artists set the standard for beauty. Now those standards are gone. Modern Art is a competition between the ugly and the twisted; the most shocking wins. What happened? How did the beautiful come to be reviled and bad taste come to be celebrated? Renowned artist Robert Florczak explains the history and the mystery behind this change and how it can be stopped and even reversed.

[bboop]

The professor on Prager U - one of the things he does with his new grad students is challenge them to explain ‘why this Jackson Pollack painting is famous.’ He frames it in the video. They come up with ‘bold, exciting’ etc. He then tells them it is his studio apron. hahah.

At the end, he mentions the white backdrop behind him. It just looks like a wall, but it turns out it has a name and sold for some god-awful amount, too.

I think it has to do with humans worshipping the created rather than the Creator. When you lose sight of the transcendent, you end up looking at your own navel lint.

[SisterK]

You nailed it!

Part of the communist agenda to make us ugly and stupid inside.

But you will not be told that it is communist driven in art history and appreciation class.

[SisterK]

Cripplecreek’s list is actually from C. Skousin’s (sp?) famous 1950’s book about the communist agenda, ‘The Naked Communist’. The Skousin (sp?) dude worked for the CIA or FBI and was trying to warn America about how the communists would take America without firing a shot.
They have completed most of the goals on the list. For more elaboration, watch ‘Agenda, Grinding America Down’ by Curtis Bowers. You can probably view it on youtube. It is a really really good movie.

[SisterK]

see my post #62 and #63

and you’re right
its crap

[The Louiswu]

"Thanks for sharing..."

You are most welcome. It would seem that lot's of folks have an opinion about art. My "opinion" about Thomas Kinkaid comes from the time I worked for his company at one of his franchised galleries and was able to see first hand the kind of business man he was and the kind of business he was running.

[x]

90 percent of everything is garbage.

And that goes for Florczak as well.

[HandyDandy]

“I think it has to do with humans worshipping the created rather than the Creator. When you lose sight of the transcendent, you end up looking at your own navel lint.”

Absolutely correct!

[timestax]

Here is my shot of minimalism.

[cripplecreek]

I took them from the reading of the communist goals in congress by congressman A.S. Herlong of Florida in 1963.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1595013/posts

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***but his work actually does show a strange sort of talent that his imitators can’t match. ****

I’ve read that there are so many fake works out there that Pollock himself could not tell the fakes from his own work.

Remember when worm art was popular back in the early 1960s?

Take a canvas lay it flat. Place a small bowl of paint and live earthworms in the center.
The worms crawl out and smear paint as they go.
Take out the bowl and with a small round brush fill in the void with squiggles.

[SisterK]

Wow. Archival. Indeed, Herlong is reading the list from The Naked Communist.
Joseph McCarthy tried to warn us also...They pretty much crucified him. Because communism is evil (besides a really bad plan).
When you dig deep, you learn that the folks who originated communism were all certified card carrying Luciferians.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

I didn’t know any of that...I didn’t check the authors on the paintings I posted either....

[Chickensoup]

Pity they didn’t add a fountain.

[The Louiswu]

I get that.

My thinking is that art should be as diverse as the number of people making it.

I get that many folks here on FR are fairly conservative and enjoy a certain kind of art, which is fine,which is great, but to stand on moral mountain and condemn all art which does not fit neatly into their narrow view is silly.

I've looked at a some art and pronounced it to be trash, I've even gotten into those heated discussions with artists about their art and I came away with a couple of ideas. Art is many things but most of all it's expression, it should make the viewer/reader/listener feel something, even if it's disgust, if art doesn't move you in some way, that's when art fails.

We all have an opinion about Art, which is wonderful but perhaps we could all open our eyes just a little more and find out about the artist, try to understand their point of view, their issues and that might help explain the art they create.

Just my humble opinion.

[Chickensoup]

Kincaid’s art is considered trivial today, and he evidently was a difficult human.

Rockwell has been seen as trivial also. However he is now enjoying a deserved resurgence. He connected with people through his art, cartoonish as it may appear to the artistically correct.

I expect that Kincaid will also resurge many years from now. For all that he was, he also connects with something primal and necessary in people.

[1010RD]

I’ve known of him for a long time. I’m a big fan of Tadema as well, but I must say the female nude has been overdone.

[my small voice]

If I can roughly replicate something similar with ZERO skill, I am not sure what to call it, but it wasn’t art I was copying. The painting in red is created thousands of times daily in daycare centers.

I actually thought about creating a “exhibit” with ridiculous pieces I created in 5 minutes and see what kind of complete morons would show up to see it. I always thought that’d be fun and a clever way to make fun of all of them.