Is Modern Art a Hoax?, page 3
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reply posted on 4-3-2004 @ 07:05 PM by Scat


this is no hoax, this is beauty....

[Edited on 3-4-04 by Scat]


reply posted on 4-3-2004 @ 07:15 PM by Scat


Gerhard Richter.

a series of 15 paintings were done from police photos, depicting the alleged murder of a group of student radicals turned armed revolutionaries in germany. the paintings depict various angles of a young man who was shot, one hung, 3 photos taken of a female prisoner pacing by her cell (the painting above is Confrontation 2) and several others of the cells and funeral.

Their deaths is amystery, police insist the radicals commited suicide, but just about everyone else says they were murdered.

A last act of defiance, or the governments way of closing the book forever?

No one truly knows, but this is art.

[Edited on 3-4-04 by Scat]


reply posted on 4-3-2004 @ 07:32 PM by Scat
Originally posted by kinglizard
I think if the art inspires, it's good art.


it hink you are a wonderful person.

youre in the know, definitely. i once saw a peice entitled trumpet. it was minimalist (not my cup of tea, but whateva) and everyone who passed it said thisis so stupid theres nothing on the canvas, whys it called trumpet blah blah blah.


well....to me....thats the whole point. when you sit there for hours on end trying to understand what its supposed to mean or be or say. THATS what its trying to do. THATS the point of art. it makes you THINK. it gives you EMOTION of some kind. too much art gives a "ooooh ahhhhhh" emotion.....why only use half of the laf of the brain we use for creativity? what about the "what the hell? this sucks! this pisses me off, why do these people make money when i slave away my life and they get paid thousands of dollars to produce this crap!" emotion???? FEEL something, FEEL anything. when i realized that its all there JUST to make you think, no matter what of, just think and feel, i smiled. i appreciate minimalist art, thats what it does for me. yeah it still pisses me off and i dont like it, but i repect it. and everytime i see a imnimalist painting i smile...while being thoroughly pissed off


reply posted on 4-3-2004 @ 07:50 PM by kegs
DeeVee, why do you say lefties? In Britain art has become the reserve of rich kids who see it as their divine right to enter acting, arts or some other art form because they perceive themselves as 'artistic' solely because their lifestyle leaves them no other avenue to achieve any self worth. They’re more likely to be right wing than anything, just because daddy says so, but that’s beside the point. I think it's equally spread on both sides.

The great irony of modern art is that those that call themselves critics are too scared to denounce anything. Art criticism has become such a clique that anyone who defers from the norm is shunned. The top dogs in the art critic world make the opinion on the art, the rest follow for fear of looking 'out of touch' or becoming 'blasé'. If the right person says it is art, then it is.

Apart from that, if enough people say anything is art, then it is. That seems to be the tenet of modern art. It’s a symptom of an art form under constant pressure to ever create something better, like music. When it becomes populated with people unable to do so, when it becomes a money making enterprise, like music, the best (The best now being judged as the most shocking or different) the best they can produce becomes the pinnacle of the art form. It's as much about saving face as anything. They don’t want to admit that it doesn’t work that way.

It's like the music industry, we get utter #e, but the best of the #e is proclaimed as great music. The people who finance and promote the music don't care as long as it makes money. The people who promote the art don't care as long as it creates prestige, for prestige is a commodity to them. To me, the fact is that art in its true form has become as shallow and commercial as any other human form of expression has in recent years, but because art is seen as the last refuge of the intellectual expression of humanity, the one true unassailable art form, the originator and protector of creativity, they do everything in their power to deny it. To deny that money at its base form has corrupted its soul and ours forever.

The way they do it is to still proclaim # as art.




[Edited on 4-3-2004 by kegs]


reply posted on 4-3-2004 @ 08:52 PM by Scat
but not all modern art is minimalism, thats what many people think of when they hear the words modern art. it can be this:



Pablo Picasso- Girl With a Mandolin

or....



Pablo Picasso- Three Musicians

or....



Carlo Carra- Funeral of the Anarchist Galli

or.....



Roy Lichenstein- Drowning Girl

or........



Jackson Pollock Echo

sorry those are just a few, just trying to shw that its not all like this:


Robert Ryman- Twin


reply posted on 5-3-2004 @ 08:17 AM by sanctum
Originally posted by Scat



this is no hoax, this is beauty....

[Edited on 3-4-04 by Scat]


Hi Scat, let have a guess, and i swear i haven't looked
/searched 4 it. Kandinsky?
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