Understanding (Modern) Art. -The Emperor has no clothes.

Art Renewal Center ^ | FR Post 6-2005 | Claudio Lombardo

[vannrox]

Modern art, is nothing more than evil and greedy people selling junk and trash to the ignorant wo are so insecure that they will not admit to their stupidity.

[Maceman]

Tom Wolfe said it better than anyone in his very excellent 1975 book "The Painted Word."

[FierceDraka]

I've seen these people's work before. It really is art as it is meant to be.

Modern "art" is an abomination that can be duplicated by hogs, chimps, and elephants.

Seriously! I've seen video of a chimp doing paintings that look just like that splatter crap done by Jackson Pollard.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Everyone perceives the cosmos in a unique and personal way. The goal of the artist is to relate to another human being his own particular perception of the cosmos, and do it in a way that his own experience is reproduced in the mind of the person beholding his work. Deliberate obfuscation, of the type seen in modern art, is antithetical to the concept of art. The idea is to communicate things that are too personal and abstract to communicate by way of simple narrative.

[muawiyah]

Some people simply cannot understand impressionism and other so-called "modern" styles. Pointilism leaves them totally cold.

They turn their backs on such works, go home, and watch television, and it's magic pixels, all arrayed in lines and columns, mixing only 3 colors to produce millions of colors, and feel smug in their assurance that they know all there is to know about how images are created, and what they mean.

[George Smiley]

Beat me to it.

Great minds and all that.

[Lizavetta]

The artists of the past often went through years of training in technique, color, anatomy, light, etc. and then years of apprenticeship to learn their craft, and it shows. Can anyone make a woman or a child's face glow with brilliance like Renior?

Today's artists seem to be more concerned with 'statements', 'expression' and self absorption than with beauty or art.

[knews_hound]

bttt

[RhoTheta]

My art-teacher father was saying this back in the fifties.

Printed out for further study (and I bookmarked your homepage for further study too).

[George Smiley]

Pollock.

And a great Pollock story is that of the Jackson Pollock dropcloth (paint-spattered, of course} that was on exhibit in the lobby.

The custodians, knowing a good dropcloth when they saw it, took it and stored it with their other painting equipment.

Needless to say, quite a furor ensued...

[George Smiley]

Whoops!

This occurred in the Richard Russell Federal Building in downtown Atlanta, GA.

[jla]

fyi - (plus you usually post such interestingly wonderful images on these threads)

[fortunecookie]

Meanwhile, real art is tossed aside as bourgeois, common. Yes, the Emporer has been without clothes for quite some time. The money and the mutual admiration society they have keep modern art going. Even those who feel they've been taken won't give up the facade (what? and cheapen their 'investment'?). Why would they want to give up on a good thing? Ch-ching.

[steel_resolve]

well put.

[cincinnati65]

An acquaintance of an acquaintance was an artist who finally got a show in New York. His work was gathering much attention, until he sat down in the middle of his show and ate a congratulatory flower arrangement that was sent to him.

Seems the patrons' appreciation of this "art" was based solely on how weird the artist was.

[cincinnati65]

I'm sorry. His work WASN'T gathering much attention until his flower eating episode.

[John Locke]

Apollo and Daphne:

The full story is in Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book I, 457-556

[M. Dodge Thomas]

Well, at least in this country we're safe; not one American middle-class nitwit in a hundred can name a single "modern artist" whose work was produced during their lifetime.

[AnAmericanMother]

I was working there when it happened!

It wasn't a Pollock, it was some no-name artist that had conned somebody into a federal grant (they set aside X million dollars for money for the ugly lobby of this extremely ugly building). Naturally he was beside himself with anger (actually shame) over the working stiffs throwing out his "dropcloth".

We all sided with the painters. We have SOME shame.