[servo1969]

[cripplecreek]

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.”

[Clay Moore]

The obama lieberry!

[a fool in paradise]

“anti-art” became the art establishment.

[a fool in paradise]

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.

[bboop]

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.

[a fool in paradise]

Islam doesn’t like figurative works either.

[cripplecreek]

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.

[logitech]

bad art ping

[miss marmelstein]

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.

[Liberty Valance]

modern art ping

[Ouchthatonehurt]

Aesthetics are moral.

When a society loses the desire for knowing and pursuing “the good” their art is lost.

[NYFreeper]

You're so ugly, you can be a modern art masterpiece!!!

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

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.

http://www.bougeureau.org

And yes, I am an artist.

[blueunicorn6]

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.

[HandyDandy]

Pablo Picasso, upon visiting and viewing the drawings at the Caves of Lascaux, commented, “We have learned nothing”.

[The Louiswu]

I love it when folks talk about art!

[Jewbacca]

According to a friend who is a professor at a very prestigious art school, modern art is so bad because:

1. The really good students are picked up by advertising companies and video game companies. Most of the highest quality art of the last 60 years has been to sell something.

2. While art has always had a political element, politics now trumps quality art. Previously, quality of art came first.

3. Related to No.2, art has always had gays, but now gay trumps art.

[The Louiswu]

O Me! O Life! By Walt Whitman

Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring, Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish, Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?) Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the struggle ever renew’d, Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me, Of the empty and useless years of the rest, with the rest me intertwined, The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life? Answer. That you are here—that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

Many people are trying to contribute a verse through their art and many more of us stand on some high moral ground and proclaim it not worthy, the artist and the art critic, the eternal struggle goes on.

[my small voice]

This crap has been going on for years. I don’t know that it is a Communist plot but my thought has always been:

If the art is more dependent on imagination and shock value than skill to create. It isn’t art. It is trash.

[Bigg Red]

Thanks for posting this.