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Why is Modern Art so Bad? (video)
YouTube.com ^ | 9-1-2014 | PragerUniversity

Posted on 09/02/2014 6:32:10 AM PDT by servo1969

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To: servo1969

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.


61 posted on 09/02/2014 12:44:18 PM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: cripplecreek

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.


62 posted on 09/02/2014 1:41:41 PM PDT by SisterK
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To: Bigg Red; cripplecreek

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.


63 posted on 09/02/2014 1:52:52 PM PDT by SisterK
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To: my small voice

see my post #62 and #63

and you’re right
its crap


64 posted on 09/02/2014 2:00:24 PM PDT by SisterK
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To: jonno
"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.
65 posted on 09/02/2014 2:02:25 PM PDT by The Louiswu (what is art?)
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To: servo1969
90 percent of everything is garbage.

And that goes for Florczak as well.

66 posted on 09/02/2014 2:04:52 PM PDT by x
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To: bboop

“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!


67 posted on 09/02/2014 2:11:40 PM PDT by HandyDandy (Started out with Burgundy but soon hit the harder stuff....)
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To: cripplecreek
Here is my shot of minimalism.

 photo IMG_8246_edited-1_zps7cd81235.jpg

68 posted on 09/02/2014 2:28:02 PM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: SisterK

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


69 posted on 09/02/2014 2:30:37 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: two134711

***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.


70 posted on 09/02/2014 6:49:57 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: cripplecreek

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.


71 posted on 09/02/2014 7:27:54 PM PDT by SisterK
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To: The Louiswu

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


72 posted on 09/03/2014 5:44:59 AM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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To: servo1969

Pity they didn’t add a fountain.


73 posted on 09/03/2014 5:54:40 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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.
74 posted on 09/03/2014 6:00:44 AM PDT by The Louiswu (what is art?)
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To: The Louiswu

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.


75 posted on 09/03/2014 6:14:55 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

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.


76 posted on 09/03/2014 6:49:44 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis

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.


77 posted on 09/03/2014 7:10:45 AM PDT by my small voice (A biased media and an uneducated populace is the biggest threat to our nation.)
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