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To: BenLurkin

He told The Independent parents were “arrogant” for thinking their children could understand artists like Jackson Pollock or Mark Rothko, adding “children are not human yet”.

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The modern art world is a fraud that mostly comes up with distinctive works to be used as currency and shelter for wealthy people’s money.


2 posted on 05/28/2016 11:05:15 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Th dMake America Great Again!)
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Too bad they didn’t knock over and break that jar of urine...


5 posted on 05/28/2016 11:08:34 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Live Free or Die.)
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To: Moonman62
"The modern art world is a fraud that mostly comes up with distinctive works to be used as currency and shelter for wealthy people's money."

Ah! A perfect justification! Congratulations!

6 posted on 05/28/2016 11:08:42 AM PDT by Da Bilge Troll (Defeatism is not a winning strategy!)
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To: Moonman62

The modern art world is a fraud that mostly comes up with distinctive works to be used as currency and shelter for wealthy people’s money.”

You understand modern art.


9 posted on 05/28/2016 11:13:29 AM PDT by buffaloguy
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To: Moonman62
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10 posted on 05/28/2016 11:14:02 AM PDT by OddLane
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To: Moonman62

The modern art world is a fraud that mostly comes up with distinctive works to be used as currency and shelter for wealthy people’s money.”

You understand modern art.


12 posted on 05/28/2016 11:15:35 AM PDT by buffaloguy
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To: Moonman62

Number 18, 1950 by Jackson Pollock


Two untitled paintings, 2016 by my six year old child

21 posted on 05/28/2016 11:28:53 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Moonman62

I am 75 and I have been painting and studying art for over 30 years and I DON’T understand JacksonPollock an Rothko.


57 posted on 05/28/2016 12:29:45 PM PDT by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: Moonman62

Modern “art” is a scam. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3609779/What-spectacle-Student-glasses-floor-pretended-art-people-immediately-started-cooing-taking-pictures.html


70 posted on 05/28/2016 12:47:40 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is always just one more murder away from utopia.)
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To: Moonman62

There are repeated news stories of art exhibits thrown out as trash because they weren’t clearly art. Collections of trash, leftovers of someone eating a meal and leaving stuff everywhere, etc.

I will say in this case, it was obviously sculpture, and the parents should have kept the kids away, if only to not get cut by something sharp.


100 posted on 05/28/2016 6:14:13 PM PDT by tbw2
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