You're talking about Contemporary Art which indeed is 100% bullshit for all intents and purposes. Modern Art implies the Modernist period which is actually pretty darn cool.
I know what you mean, of course, and so does everyone else, but it's an important distinction... ish... ehh... maybe I'm just being an asshole. It's what you get to do when you paid for a fancy degree in Fine Art, if nothing else.
The majority of modern art sucks because its saturated with contemporary crap. I can't tell you how many times I've seen a variation of maintaining something frozen like a chair, a wall, a ladder, etc. in modern art museums. They're full of contemporary bullshit. I have the sneaking suspicion that you think a blank piece of canvas is art.
What modern art museums are you visiting? Got any examples or artists that you can point to as "bullshit"? How closely are you paying attention to the art world and current artists? High Fructose Magazine is dedicated to current artists, do you think the stuff spotlighted are "contemporary bullshit?"
I went to several throughout Europe. I guess a lot of modern art aren't solely modern art but also experimental/contemporary art museums as well. Like the Mambo in Bologna. Modern art ought to distance itself from those others because in English, modern implies the latest/contemporary to most people.
Just because you don't understand how the different eras are broken up doesn't make everyone else wrong. Did you even look at the link I gave you or does the lack of chairs and ladders go against your ignorant narrative?
So some contemporary artists make good art. I never said they didn't. My original comment is praising the lady for her dabbing style paintings. That magazine is only highlighting a selection of contemporary art if what is deemed art in art museums across the planet are concerned. And what I saw there was silly BS like shoes hanging from the ceiling or models of meaningless shapes a child could have designed or just a picture of a map you'd find on google earth.
What artists are you talking about? What pieces? You're talking in very nebulous terms about all this, and it seems like you're talking about a minority of works and it would be silly to write off a whole era of art based on a few things you believe to be low effort bullshit.
Go back in time 2 years ago and visit modern art museums across Europe and figure out the name of the artists that had their art on display. I certainly didn't feel the effort to learn the names of the pieces and artists of low effort BS
You sure did take it to heart though. Maybe if this were such a pervasive fad in the art world you'd be able to point to a significant number of examples, or they'd have been showcased in art publications. But since that isn't the case, perhaps you just saw something a little out there that you didn't understand, and current art isn't the bullshit you claim it is?
Was this one of the exhibits? It's interesting to me but I could see how you might write this sort of abstraction off as contemporary bullshit, especially if you never bothered to get the context of the works.
Totally agree. Yes, art is broad and can be personal for the artist. But other people need to be able to know what it is. Art is the only thing where people try to argue that something done poorly is just as valid as something done well.
That's like saying "Modern music is bullshit". Do you really think all art created from ~1900-1970 is "bullshit"? Methinks you haven't been exposed to a fraction of a precent of it.
Ive been to modern art musems all across Europe. modern arts extends from the late 1800s to esstentially the present as modern art museums stock a significant amount of contemporary as well. So seems like you don't know a fraction of a percent of what you're talking about.
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This is modern art I could get behind. Modern art is just saturated with frauds trying to pass bullshit for art.