You know, I'm generally not hostile to the concept of "modern art." I'm not. I can enjoy the aesthetics of many abstract paintings, some abstract sculptures. I think it is often self-indulgent crap, but some of it's interesting. I'm not one of those "that ain't art!" bloviators. At least, not as a general reaction to these things. That stuff has its place. I do regret that classic ideas of aesthetics and form seem to be lost on a lot of young artists though.
I also find most "performance art" to be insufferably rank. And Jerome at The Tears Of Things has written an article about the artist who seems to be the living embodiment of everything wretched about the modern art world: Santiago Sierra. The guy's a real winner.
(Jerome's also done a little piece of art inspired by the recent God-talk in the blogosphere that I kind of like.)
No one's commenting, but thanks for this link. I thought it was an interesting article.
Strangely enough, I really liked the corrugated steel exhibit ... but Sierra needs to get a new gig.
Eh. Just about all non-commercial art that I hear about today seems designed solely to prey on the (artistic, moral, and political) gullibility of an audience of (artistic, moral, and political) dilettantes and poseurs. This guy's no different.
Being one of the "it ain't art" bloviators, allow me to make a statement: Art, in my view, is supposed to seek the soul. How does trying to breath water reveal the soul?
Modern art is just proof positive you can sell anything to people with too much money.
Not all modern art is like this, and not all is performance art.
I like some of Jackson Pollack's work. Picasso is terribly overrated but some of his stuff resonates with me.
I can also relate to art that plays with a sense of the absurd. A favorite is the classic painting that shows a pipe, with the words "this is not a pipe" underneath it.
Why? Because it's not a pipe, it's a painting of a pipe. If that doesn't make you chuckle, your soul needs a jump-start!
Dean,
But thats art - of cours its not a pipe. I read somewhere that our word "person" comes from the "persona" (the mask) an actor wore in ancient times - meaning that we can never know the man, but only the face he presents to the world. This, to me, is what art is supposed to try to get at - the person behind the mask, the truth...a guy sleeping in a bed doesn't get at anything except narcissism...while Picasso's weird paintings were at least an attempt at getting at a truth.
Well, see, then we don't really disagree. I'm just saying, there are folks who instantly bellow that if something isn't a picture of something they instantly recognize, "it ain't art." All I'm saying is, I ain't one of those. ;-)
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