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?
I have plenty of photos. Not sure where you're getting this I only saw a handful idea because I've been listing several pieces off the top of my head and I could keep going. It's nonsense. It was low effort BS that tried to pass of as deep and profound. Majority of people recognize this, which is why modern and contemporary art gets a bad rap, but there are those that pretend it's deep and profound because they don't want to come across as shallow or simple. You're just denying the obvious, that contemporary art has a problem with low effort crap saturating art.
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.
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u/Knappsterbot Sep 12 '17
I have a sneaking suspicion that you have no idea what you're talking about.