[9YearLurker]

Ah, no.

[ClearCase_guy]

I suppose I’m just a peasant, but when I think of “modern art” I mostly think of art responding to photography. You want realism? Here is a photograph. What can painting offer that is better than photographic realism? Well, the painter can offer subjective impressions and alternative ways of seeing the world. Turner, Seurat, Van Gogh, Picasso, Pollock — they did what photographs could not do. Joseph Wright of Derby? I think it’s a stretch to call it modern art.

[know.your.why]

"...a modern art masterpiece."

[Right_Wing_Madman]

What is "modern art"? Many point to the 1800s – and paintings like Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe (1863) by Édouard Manet, Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway (1844) by JMW Turner, and The Third of May 1808 (1814) by Francisco Goya

Or this one:

[Libloather]

Nice shadows and color. Five bucks @ the yard sale.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Wow, that’s a magnificent painting. The light, the faces, the hands, the expressions, the curiosity about the scene are all spectacular. I never heard of Joseph Wright before.

[Uncle Miltie]

Hieronymus Bosch, 1501:

Made large so you can scroll the details.

[EQAndyBuzz]

It’s the same parlor where the dogs were playing poker.

[tumblindice]

Paul Johnson, “Art: A New History”, said that, ‘Art is anything that appeals to our sense of the sublime’.
Almost all ‘modern art’ is not art. It is degeneracy.
I have spoken.

[Tunehead54]

I got your "Modern Art" right here -- Courtesy of DuckDuckGo. ;-)

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[Bullish]

For me, you just can’t top a nude on velvet, sorry.

[Moltke]

Of course it’s absolutely modern. Why, Henry Winkler is right there in the center operating the air pump.