Reign of modernism will end in 21st century, critics contend

The Art Renewal Center ^ | Originally printed on Sunday the 29th of October, 2000. | Robert McCain

[vannrox]

I agree with this appraisal.

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[denydenydeny]

Bouguereau, "A la fontaine"

[NewHampshireDuo]

What, no more art made from fecal matter?

[AntiGuv]

One can only hope..

[Blood of Tyrants]

Read "The Nake Communist". Among the stated goals of communism is to replace traditional art with ugly shapeless garbage and then tell the people that they were stupid for not seeing the "artisty" of a jar of urine with a crusifix immersed within.

Check out this link for some REAL art:

http://www.artrenewal.org/index.html

[Sam Cree]

"I look at modern art as very much like what happened with communism - it was an idea that was a house of cards and couldn't work," says Allan Banks, president of the American Society of Classical Realism and vice chairman of the American Society of Portrait Artists."

What a great remark.

Two Victorian painters I like are Thomas Eakins and Dagnan Bouveret - both swam against the tide, were "realists."

Eakins

[happygrl]

"I look at modern art as very much like what happened with communism - it was an idea that was a house of cards and couldn't work," says Allan Banks, president of the American Society of Classical Realism and vice chairman of the American Society of Portrait Artists.

"A lot of the rubbish that we've been handed (in the 20th century) has pretty much played itself out," ...

That is Wonderful News to those of us who love art. Art should be communicative, something that is grasped by the common person, not a cipher of artist narssicism.

[cdefreese]

Thank God.

Smeared feces is not art, no matter what the inspiration is.
Neither is an empty room with a light blinking on and off.
Same goes for a room filled with cheese.
Placing objects in jars of urine or hangins sexual aids from strings inside libraries isn't art.
Mutilating yourself isn't art, it is sick. If anyone else without 'artist' as an occupation did that, they would be put into a 'facility' to undergo observation for mental illness.
If my 3yr old can reproduce your work, I can not take your or your 'pieces of art' seriously.
If I go into a junkyard and pull out scrap metal that looks like something that is in front of a building, that isn't art either.
If you make an everyday object 1000 times its normal size or make it 1000 times smaller than normal, it might be neat or interesting as a second rate tourist spot, but it isn't art.

OK, I am done ranting...

[LiteKeeper]

ead later

[dennisw]

At the Fountain
by William Bouguereau

[Sam Cree]

Eakins

[B-Chan]

Now that's art.

Lord Leighton bump.

[Nubbin]

I like sacred art and am especially drawn Botticelli. To me his paintings have a magical and joyful quality. Here is what G.K Chesterton said about The Nativity of Botticelli

Do you blame me that I sit hours before this picture?
But if I walked all over the world in this time
I should hardly see anything worth seeing that is not in this picture.

I believe Botticelli was a contemporary of Michaelangelo who said:

It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think it is necessary for the painter to be very good in his mode of life, or even, if such were possible, a saint, so that the Holy Spirit my inspire his intellect..."

[society-by-contract]

Dates and catagories are not the most descriptive means to convey ideas about a school or movement. Ok. Modernism began in the last third of the of the 19th century. If you like you may pin the date to the Salon d Refuse in 1863. Modernism was supplanted by Post-modernism in say 1945 by artists such as Pollack & Bill Monroe. I'm not endorsing either movement.

By the way, be careful about referring to art currently being produced as modern art which denotes a particular period of history; contemperory art is preferred.

Non-Objective art is preferred to abstract art.

Perhaps I should have studied art history instead of economics in school so I could prvide more detail; alas aesthetics is an avocation.

[elbucko]

For many years I have thought that the "Commercial Artist" was far superior to "Pop Artists" or "Modernists". Those who learn the craft of drawing and painting and have talent, deserve the title "Artist". With inspiration, it is these gifted people that truly "create" art. The Modernists are merely making trash or recycling it.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

I know a fair number of Neo-Pagans types with leftish to hard-left politics, who go adore Pre-Raphaelite art. If modernism is losing the left, it's dead.

[xJones]

Thanks for this article. So many times as I've walked through *modern* art exhibits and musuems, I've thought, "The emperor really does have no clothes". It was all nonsense, that evoked nothing but wonder reading the convulated critical praise of such....nothing. But like the emperor's crowd, we were all supposed to marvel at it, for fear of being called bourgeoise and anti-intellectual.

[struwwelpeter]

Among the stated goals of communism is to replace traditional art with ugly shapeless garbage

Some wasn't so bad ;-)

[mpreston]

It's happening to the music industry, they just don't realize it yet.