Posted on 09/02/2014 6:32:10 AM PDT by 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.
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22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
That’s what I was going to refer to -
modern art is bad on purpose, one of the goals of communism.
The obama lieberry!
“anti-art” became the art establishment.
And while the subversion of art forms is in that famous list of “Communist goals”, there have been some claims that the CIA propped up the creation and promotion of such works as well.
Modern music is the same. And poetry. This Prager U is well worth watching. He’s got a great ‘piece of art’ (ie, a ROCK!!) from LA County Museum of Art which is very funny.
Islam doesn’t like figurative works either.
I think the most important thing he says can be applied to all cultural media.
We must support what is good and brush aside what is bad.
bad art ping
I would read Camille Paglia’s “Glittering Images,” a very attractive book with beautiful plates of great works of art. But it is her introductory essay that goes to the heart of this problem. In typical Paglia style, she attacks both the left and the right for their bad art and revulsion towards modern art. It’s a good read and so beautiful.
Aesthetics are moral.
When a society loses the desire for knowing and pursuing “the good” their art is lost.
Just this weekend read an essay by Andrew Klavan about much the same thing, except he was talking about movies, TV, music, novels, etc. Popular art instead of high art, if you will.
Watching this video it struck me that the degradation of the two related fields has the same cause. And it doesn’t require commies or the CIA to be behind it.
Since the mid to late 19th century, artists, writers and intellectuals in our society have been increasingly disconnected from and antagonistic to the society around them. This was at first a very small group of the avant garde, but after WWI it spread and deepened. Since the 60s it has been not a counter-culture movement, but the culture itself.
It’s based on whatever you should call the opposite of civilizational self-confidence, a gut belief that their own culture is horrible and should be destroyed. This is far below the level of conscious thought, and is so taken for granted that it’s considered a fact of nature.
This is, of course, why we see the constant calls for “transformational change” without any attempt to recognize the possibility that some change will be for the worse. To these people, it is simply an axiom that our society is so horrible that ANY change is by definition for the better.
This is despite the fairly obvious fact that western capitalistic capitalism has provided both greater prosperity AND greater freedom for more people than any that has ever existed.
I have a number of theories on why this rage against their own civilization exists, but don’t find any of them fully satisfactory. Would be interested in opinions. It is, IMO, much deeper than a desire for Marxism. In fact, I think Marxism, feminism, environmentalism, multiculturalism and so forth are for most merely a rationale they pick up to justify to themselves their alienation, not its source.
You're so ugly, you can be a modern art masterpiece!!!
Bingo!
One of the greatest painters in history was born during the ascendency of Modernity, and he remains relatively unknown, in comparison to clowns like Picasso.
And yes, I am an artist.
try listening, once again, to the Sex Pistols. I had this argument last night with my wife... She was playing devil’s advocate in that the critics were all right and that the punk rock movement was a valid artistic statement, defining the angst and anger of the young.. to which I said, tell me something I don’t know..rock and roll has always been definined as such, but the difference is... one type of music is performed by talented musicians who channel such urges and feelings into great works of art. One only needs to go listen to the early early blues artists, Cole Porter, Billy Holliday, Hendrix, Dylan, Clapton, and on and on...
Punk is basically just a the primal screams of a 2 year old who wants it all now.... and is going to get it all now or they will scream for an hour... the duty of a parent or in the case of our population in general, is to ignore the screams.... that is how I feel about punk rock..I ignore it as the selfish screams of a 2 year old, who has just learned the power and impact of “the scream”.
art does NOT have to be beautiful... but it does require talent, genius, an ability to capture the human spirit or human condition... the foibles of man...dark images, sad happy, elated, beautiful, music....it’s all wonderful as long as it’s infused with the necessary ingredient of talent.
The first problem is that you must master the science of the medium before you can produce the art of the medium. Too many people skip the mastering of the science part.
The second problem is the disregard for the audience. Writing for yourself is called “Keeping a diary.” Drawing for yourself is called “Doodling”.
The third problem is the lack of care and concern and effort. “Knocking it out” produces something, but it’s not art.
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