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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: Sherman Logan

After the dawn of photography, “fine” artists stepped back from attempting to be realist in their portrayal of subject matter.

Yet photographers who wanted to be accepted as “artists” had to use tricks (to haze the photo) to present “pictorialist” works.

The American illustrator movement (who largely found work in publishing whether it be book, magazine, or advertising illustration) was rejected by the art world as being crass/consumerist/and about money. As if Andy Warhol or Salvador Dali weren’t interested in how much money their works were bringing in.

Initially the dada movement, readymade objects, and all that were conceived as “anti-art” but it has since become the dominant ART form recognized by galleries and institutions.


21 posted on 09/02/2014 7:20:43 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
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To: servo1969

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


22 posted on 09/02/2014 7:25:33 AM PDT by HandyDandy (Started out with Burgundy but soon hit the harder stuff....)
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To: bboop

And fashion - especially for the young.


23 posted on 09/02/2014 7:27:28 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: Sherman Logan
There is an incredible amount of rage within the constraints of more "traditional" artistry. I personally tend toward minimalism which is why I love foggy days for photography.







Other times I go other ways. This picture was a crappy photo I took and later heavily manipulated it into something I liked. I printed and framed it for myself but my neighbor ended up buying it for his hunting/getaway cabin up north.


24 posted on 09/02/2014 7:28:01 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: bboop
And poetry.

To me, nothing in the arts is worse than modern poetry, especially slam poetry and spoken word, self-indulgent crap delivered with an affected cadence. Horrible.
25 posted on 09/02/2014 7:32:18 AM PDT by needmorePaine
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To: servo1969

I love it when folks talk about art!


26 posted on 09/02/2014 7:35:29 AM PDT by The Louiswu (One brave man, that's all we need.)
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To: servo1969

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.


27 posted on 09/02/2014 7:39:13 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

“When I am alone with myself, I have not the courage to think of myself as an artist in the great and ancient sense of the term.
Giotto, Titan, Rembrandt and Goya were great painters. I am only a public entertainer who has understood his times and has exhausted, as best he could, the imbecility, the vanity, the cupidity of his contemporaries.
Mine is a bitter confession, more painful than it may appear, but it has the merit of being sincere.”—Pablo Picasso


28 posted on 09/02/2014 7:42:11 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: logitech; servo1969

Excellent, concise, spot-on video! My thoughts exactly. I have long said that YES, there IS such a thing as bad art, and no one need be intimidated by the art snob community into believing they don’t know enough about art to make a judgment call.

The proliferation of bad art in America coincides with the leftist “progressive” revolution that began around the turn of the last century. The gist and foundation of all of it is REBELLION.


29 posted on 09/02/2014 7:42:41 AM PDT by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: cripplecreek

Art is used for investment and tax purposes. All that matters is that it is rare, verifiable, and created by someone famous (at least in the art community). The actual art can be pure crap. It doesn’t matter.


30 posted on 09/02/2014 7:43:39 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: servo1969
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.
31 posted on 09/02/2014 7:49:05 AM PDT by The Louiswu (what is art?)
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To: Moonman62

A while back I read an article about how to make money off art and photography.

Basically it said to hang around gay people and photograph them doing gay things and then show it off to liberals so they will get your name out there.

My attitude is to do what I like and if others like it too, they’ll pay for it.


32 posted on 09/02/2014 7:49:40 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: servo1969

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.


33 posted on 09/02/2014 7:56:41 AM PDT by my small voice (A biased media and an uneducated populace is the biggest threat to our nation.)
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To: Liberty Valance

That’s so cute! Sort of like a Battenburg cake.


34 posted on 09/02/2014 7:57:13 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: cripplecreek

I do not dispute that those were among their goals, but I suspect that your items are not from an actual list compiled by the leftists, as I doubt they would describe their “superior” cultural items with all of those negative adjectives. Your list reads like something from one of those multi-forwarded emails.


35 posted on 09/02/2014 7:57:56 AM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: cripplecreek

My artist son basically did that in New York city, it did work to a degree.


36 posted on 09/02/2014 7:58:18 AM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: servo1969

Thanks for posting this.


37 posted on 09/02/2014 8:04:35 AM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

Excellent points.


38 posted on 09/02/2014 8:05:54 AM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: servo1969
Here's one reason:

How to Graduate from Art School (animation)

39 posted on 09/02/2014 8:15:18 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: my small voice

On a recent vacation, I had the misfortune of visiting Goggleworks in Reading, PA. I was astounded by the quantity of garbage masquerading as art.

http://www.goggleworks.org

The stuff that shows up on a quick peek at the website is not bad, but most of what I saw on display and for sale was disgusting, while some of it was just laughable.


40 posted on 09/02/2014 8:16:42 AM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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