[vannrox]

Another fine article discussing the current trend in the art world...

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[anobjectivist]

Obviously a symptom for what is really going on that's not quite so visible yet with our society. Complete anarchy.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

Bump to read later

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[redhead]

Wonderful stuff. Thanks for this. I emailed the link to myself at home to make sure I have it bookmarked, and I'm bumping this to the MOON!!

[Valin]

And they wonder why no one buys their "art". the sad thing is in many cases there is real talent there. but tthey seem to have an almost kneejerk aversion to producing anything that is lovely to look at.
Case in point Robert Mapplethorpe(he of the bulllwhip in the butt), he made a series of photos of calla-lillies that are just...wonderful.
http://masters-of-photography.com/M/mapplethorpe/mapplethorpe_calla.html

[ConservativeConvert]

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter... Conceptual "Art" = Total Bullsh*t!

[Darksheare]

A truly sad commentary on the communists and leftists who have usurped the art world.
Wonder how long it will take before they try to suppress this article. (The NEA and other anti-intelligent groups. Any negative publicity that sheds light on their psychosis is usually squashed and hushed.)

[RansomOttawa]

Has anyone read C. S. Lewis' The Pilgrim's Regress? For me, the most striking moment is the encounter with the "Clevers," a group of "brutal" avant-garde "artists" by whom Lewis intended to lampoon the poseurs of his day, such as Edith Sitwell and D. H. Lawrence. The protagonist, John, is attacked and beaten when he dares to suggest that their "art" is without substance.

There is indeed nothing new under the sun . . .

[monkey]

Obscene language and bizarre pornography have grown like mold over much modern art.

I've been to dozens of modern art exhibits in the past few years, mostly in Washington at the East Wing of the Nat. Gallery, Hirschhorn, Phillips and Corcoran. I have never seen what he's describing. I have seen some extremely innovative, thought provoking exhibits.

Frank Buckley writes in his upcoming book, “As for what the ordinary buyer wants, there is no mystery. Representational art—realism—brings visitors to a museum, and realism is what the small collector buys.”

Art has never been realistic. The most popular exhibits are Impressionism and Post Impressionism, which are starting on the road to abstraction. Much of modern art is similar to prehistoric art. Why is that? Pre-Renaissance artists didn't use vanishing point perspective. Why is that? Maybe art is something more than "lovely to look at".

The bumper stickers are right: art predicts the future, i.e., it reflects its culture but it represents thoughts that haven't found their way to words. The most interesting message of modern art is that art is not what we thought it was, and, ultimately, we are not what we thought we were.

[orbital]

The art world has become decadent. Very sad.

To the list of oeuvres d'art mentioned in the article we should add 'My Bed' by Tracey Emin, which features an unmade bed with grubby sheets, surrounded by condoms, soiled knickers and bottles of vodka, and was shortlisted for the £20,000 Turner Prize. A good friend of mine has a bed like that, but no-one's offering him 20K.

[Revelation 911]

now, Dali, Dali was an artist

[Quix]

I CERTAINLY haven't read every word of the post.

I think I agree with it fairly wholesale.

And I rather like the idea of Dilldo and Shrillary Hillary getting mooned.

However, I don't know if he covered this issue or not . . .

Our society has gotten this art, largely because it has glorified these values for far too long. In some respects, far too truly, this "art" reflects the depths this society has descended to. Where it has not glorified these values, good men and women have too much, too effectively, too irresponsibly looked the other way.

Public monies have paid for too much of this junk. Outcries have been too muffled, too late and too neutered.

In a sense, 'Enjoy it group--you've asked for it" applies.

When the chief outrage has become that there's too little to no outrage, it is clearly outrageous.

Ah welllll, the Gallery Cleaner has it all on His schedule. And His broom is both massive and intricately thorough.

I think I hear His combat boots on the marble floors now. . . at least on the sidewalks nearby.

[weegee]

Recent "performance art" outrage (this one was privately funded and much of the audience was outraged)

Roast Attendees Take Umbrage With Stunt By Penn & Teller -article on their sacrilegious stunt

[weegee]

“If art is to flourish in the twenty-first century, it must renew its moral authority,” suggests Hart, by “rededicating itself to life rather than to art for art’s sake. Art must again touch our lives, our fears, and cares. It must evoke our dreams and give hope to the darkness.”

Nothing is allowed to be "pretty" or "beautiful" these days. If a man composes some music that has no screeching or drums or draws flowers etc. it is assumed that he's a "wimp" or "gay".

A cartoonist like Walt Kelly was at the top of his craft AND able to make social/political statements AND able to do completely light hearted "family friendly" things.

No one has stepped in to replace Henry Mancini (who didn't just compose film scores).

Burt Bacharch was ridiculed for years even though his songs were very successful.

The left complains about crass consumerism but the only thing that bothers them about American culture is the "consumerism". Being crass and in your face has been their game plan since the 1960s.